I don't need sarcasm from wanna be hunters like Moose 1915, I am just trying to get some more info on the subject.
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People like that make me a little disappointed to be associated with them in anyway.
The talk in Springville, NY and the couple of surrounding towns has increased significantly this past year about the release of these animals to the area.
As for the stocking of coyotes - that is fact. A very close friend of mine and a college professor that I know from Fingerlakes Community College in the Environmental Science Program was involved in the release program. There were not many pairs released because they expected a quick increase in population but not as quick as what actually occured. I think that they underestimated the numbers of resident animals already in the area and that was part of the problem.
But hey it did open up a really exciting hunting opportunity. Especially if you go out at night and use distress calls with red lights. Talk about an erie feeling when you don't notice one of these sly animals until it is about 15 - 20 yard from you and all you can see then is a pair of beedy little eye staring right at you rying to decide if you a dinner or not.
I have called during the day too mut you better be in a wide open area with a good acurate rifle if you are going to get a coyote in the daytime unless caught ooff gaurd.
Yea I can't really see the reasoning for releasing Mountain lions in WNY, maybe the Adirondaks but even that may be a stretch. It is just the amount of plublicity that the subject has gotten in the last year the increases my curiosity. There was even a segment on a local radio station about it that I heard personally. I also heard that from a local taxidermist that there had been pairs of the cats released but he was unsure as the exact number of pairs and he said that the pairs were widely dispersed.
One thing I do know is that if I were to run across one in the woods I would be sure to get proof of its existence. I almost always have a disposable camera with me when in the woods.
That is all I have to say and hope that some intelligent conversation can be made on the subject.
I encourage anyone who has not tried predator calling to give it a shot. You will be suprised at how quickly a hungy coyote will respond to a rabit distress or fawn in distress call. I have even had them try to stalk in on me when spring turkey hunting. I had one get within 10 yards of my turkey decoy last spring before it realized something wasn't right and beat feet back into the woods. (Season ends in March otherwise that dogs would have been added to the fur shed)
