ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr
That was exactly my point, mlo. They enjoyed the abundant doe tags so long as they were the ones doing some of the killing. If they had practiced some restraint and not participated, they might have something to say. The blame commission didn't kill all those deer, and the coyotes were here back then too. If they really believe coyotes are a problem, why not do some hunting for them? Coyote hunting is much harder than deer hunting for a couple of reasons. One is that coyotes are much smarter, sometimes smarter than the hunters who hunt them. A second reason is that there are not nearly so many coyotes as some would have you believe. They sure don't outnumber deer. If anyone thinks they do he must have flunked high school biology, or at least the part where they taught about food and energy pyramids.
Right on the money!
SOME coyotes will appear to be MANY. They never stop moving and snooping, so they leave alot of sign per animal. The problem is that SOME can be too many. We really need to hunt them more. The coyotes didn't reduce the herd to today's state, hunters did. Problem is that coyotes will keep deer numbers low due to predation on fawns, although they will take a mature deer if they get a good opportunity to do so, I have seen that personally. They will tear the tendon on the deer's rear leg and then run it down uintil it can't go anymore. I've seen it firsthand.