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Night Hunting Coyotes

I want to, but the cost of thermals is prohibitive. I believe in MN we have to use shotguns or rimfires at night, which kind of negates the advantages of using thermals.
 
Thermals are ALWAYS an advantage. Price can be prohibitive, but I have never met anyone that said thermals are not a bonus. 5 or 500 yards in the dark, you miss a lot.
 
Killing them may make them leave your current area but it makes them produce and spread more otherwise. Killing loaners or entire packs at once (how would you know its all of them is beyond me) is supposedly the only way to truly reduce the numbers. As long as there’s 1 male and 1 female they can replace an entire pack within a year easily. I stopped killing them around me. Me and my wildlife fisheries biologist buddy trap them, he’s been doing it a lot longer than I have and so far all that we’ve trapped at my place and of all he’s ever trapped neither of us have ever trapped a female so there’s that. This past year I’ve given it up and got a great Pyranease, I free range full time now 83 chickens and I lost 1 this past year to a barn owl and I’ve found the coyotes show up a few nights and then will be gone for weeks and show up again but they don’t bother anything. I did have a loaner that was starving run a few chickens on the porch at 11am broad daylight and got a few feathers before wifey deleted him but none died, Pyranease just so happened to be on his runner at the time. My point is I feel since I left them be and just kept my animals protected I hear them less or not too sure either way I look at it at least I know I’m not making them add more to the pop. Should check out Coyote America by Dan Flores, they’re a wildly fascinating creature and us killing them is what spread them from only 2 states in the PAC NW to every single state over the past 100 years or so. But I totally agree there’s something about doming a yote under thermal
 
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