Coyotes... Shoot or pass?

[DB4x4]

... And why?

If you see one, do you let him have it? If so, what do you do with it afterwards?

Curious to see some opinions on this...

 

[Loopwing]

Kill them all, if they don't stink to bad, skin it out. If they stink to bad. Cut the tail off and hang the body as a warning to all other coyotes. Old timer trick that works and keeps them away for a little while.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

Kill them all, if they don't stink to bad, skin it out. If they stink to bad. Cut the tail off and hang the body as a warning to all other coyotes. Old timer trick that works and keeps them away for a little while.

They'll just eat them.

 

[stini]

im 50/50. i do want to help the wild life population by taking out the yotes, but I don't like killing something I wont use and not a fan of just tossing it into the bush on public land. never know what person would find it and make it seem like hunters are the worst. when im on private there's someone close who will take it ..

 

[Hunter260]

Kill em all and let god sort em out. Never once have I felt bad for killing one and leaving it lay. I don’t even bother tracking most of them.

 

[Wyatt_burp]

Killem, skin em. Euro the skull. Tan the hide.

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[sweats]

I've only seen 1 or 2 ever when I was out hunting. Even so, I don't plan on shooting them. Most of what I've read is that taking out a handful doesn't make any difference.

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[Loopwing]

It doesn't make a difference in the when scheme of things, but if I hear howling coyotes on my land I don't see deer that day. Killing and hanging a coyote will move the coyotes off my land for a month or so and the deer come back. I guess it is all in how you look it making a difference.

 

[RippinLips]

My dad would never let us kill any coyotes on the farm I grew up on. He said if they aren't killing our animals leave them be. You kill them and one will take over that area and may cause us problems. But on the farm I hunt now we have seen on our cameras coyotes taking down mature bucks. There we shoot them on site.

 

[DB4x4]

Shot my first one last weekend at dawn while deer hunting. Tried carrying it out initially, so as not to ruin the hide, but it STUNK something fierce, and I didn't want that stank all over me the rest of the day. Between the exit wound and the mile long drag, the hide was pretty much trashed, so I am going to boil the skull and do a Euro mount.

I was just wondering what everyone else's coyote strategy looked like...

 

[Bowmanmike]

I let them live. I dont have no quarrel with the coyotes..The deer seem to co-exist with them just fine.
I actually enjoy seeing them in the woods and how they move through them.
I have seen a coyote and not an hour later a deer followed the same trail..I did miss the deer because it was on high alert and ducked when it heard my bow or my arrow. I didn't think of that,it was early in my bowhunting career.

 

[Swampwalker]

I'm with the kill em all crowd. Fawn eating machines.

 

[Bowmanmike]

I'm with the kill em all crowd. Fawn eating machines.

That is part of the reason why fawns are born around the same time. Too many too eat for the coyotes.

 

[Chimney7]

I was a shoot on sight person for a long time, but im coming around to letting them walk. They kill deer, so what, so do I. I read some article recently, I would site it but i have no idea where i came across it, that was talking about the survival rate of fawns. To paraphrase it said there is a high mortality rate of fawns, even without predators, so basically the coyotes don’t kill anymore fawns than what wouldn’t make it anyways.

if i come across one in my yard, probably going to blast it because i have a toddler running around who is no match for a coyote. If i see one out in the woods with a bow, probably just going to observe.

edit: to be clear i have zero problem with others stacking as many as they want for whatever reason.

 

[Swampwalker]

Tell you what, you tell them to eat only the dead ones and I'll only kill every other one. :^)

 

[shwacker]

Never pass!


Spencer

 

[raisins]

I would never shoot one while deer hunting with a rifle because of the noise, but would with a bow. I had a chance on one with a bow walking in this year, but there were houses nearby and I hesitated trying to figure out if it was a weird pet dog that looks like a coyote. That WMA is overrun with them, and I might start hunting coyotes this spring and will go there for sure.

 

[Aeds151]

I let 2-3 pass every year bow hunting. I dont eat dog and they help with varmint control


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[Wyatt_burp]

I would never shoot one while hunting with a rifle because of the noise, but would with a bow. I had a chance on one with a bow walking in this year, but there were houses nearby and I hesitated trying to figure out if it was a weird pet dog that looks like a coyote. That WMA is overrun with them, and I might start hunting coyotes this spring and will go there for sure.

February is mating season, I dont have public land near me where I can hunt them, but back home that was yote killin time.

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[Maverick1]

Have you read the reports or studies that indicate if killing one here or there makes a difference? (And, no, not any of the reports from the humane society.....)