wolfen,
I personally don't hate coyotes but I was a ranch manager for 5 years before I began teaching. I watched a herd of 60 doe and fawn antelope turn into a herd of 30 doe antelope in 3 weeks. Every fawn was killed by coyotes. I personally witnessed and intervened in situation where 5 coyotes had taken down a 400# steer and were eating it alive. I don't even have the space to type the # of calving nightmares I had that involved coyotes. Coyotes in our area are OUT OF CONTROL. While I respect their survival ability and their cunning, I also recognize how destructive they can be. Coyotes are going to be coyotes whether there are 1 or 100. If you get too many they will destroy an ecosystem. When their numbers are as high as they are right now they need to be thinned by any means possible. I still say a frontal shot on a coyote is very lethal. Not on a deer or elk but it is on a coyote. Of the couple dozen coyotes I've shot or seen shot with a bow, not one has run more than 50 yards. That being said, I've seen coyotes shot with a 22-250 run several hundred yards on marginal hits.

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