How do you handle coyotes while deer hunting.
12-04-2011, 12:34 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 20
Iny state we are not allowed to shoot them during rifle season because the DNR doesn't want the hunters to mistakenly shoot wolves. It really sucks because I could always shoot a few during firearm season.
A few years ago my hunting partner shot a coyote; he was in a very close quarters swamp and using a can call, all of a sudden there is a coyote quartering at him that darts off, then another one, then one behind him. He finally got.freaked out enough that he got out of there. On his way out his sixth sense tingled, he turned around and there is a coyote running down the trail at him, he yelled, "HEY!". The dog kept coming and he dusted it.
He was pretty freaked out.
Another hunting buddy was gutting out a deer that he had taken in the last legal moments of shooting time during archery season and a pack of coyotes kinda circled him and basically forced him to leave his deer. The next day we went out during the day and it was basically just bones.
To compound my fun in the woods we have a large cougar that has been caught on trail cameras right where I hunt.
fun
A few years ago my hunting partner shot a coyote; he was in a very close quarters swamp and using a can call, all of a sudden there is a coyote quartering at him that darts off, then another one, then one behind him. He finally got.freaked out enough that he got out of there. On his way out his sixth sense tingled, he turned around and there is a coyote running down the trail at him, he yelled, "HEY!". The dog kept coming and he dusted it.
He was pretty freaked out.
Another hunting buddy was gutting out a deer that he had taken in the last legal moments of shooting time during archery season and a pack of coyotes kinda circled him and basically forced him to leave his deer. The next day we went out during the day and it was basically just bones.
To compound my fun in the woods we have a large cougar that has been caught on trail cameras right where I hunt.
fun
12-05-2011, 09:48 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: At the bar
Posts: 192
went to ky a couple years ago deer hunting, place was crawling with coyotes, showed a guy 2 fifty pound dogs and asked how many he had killed since he's hunted there most of his life, he said none, he wouldn't shoot them because he didn't wanna ruin his deer hunting. I asked him how much venison those 2 ate in a year, he had no idea. I told him every coyote he let walk affected his deer hunting in the future
don't cut them much slack during bear season either
RR
don't cut them much slack during bear season either
RR
12-05-2011, 10:05 AM
#19
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 37
Whenever i see a coyote i try to get a shot on one, i accually killed my first coyote last saturday (last day of rifle season) and a 4 point buck (that i also shot) walked out about 15 minutes after i shot the coyote from the same direction.
12-05-2011, 10:21 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,840
Pretty much sums up my feelings. And seriously how often do you get a chance to shoot coyotes? I hear them often but never really see them for a shot. If you are seeing them all the time, I have to believe you have a SERIOUS coyote problem and you better shoot them all.