All year or seasonal for coyotes?

[CNP-Outdoors]

Do you guys hunt all year or do you take a break Spring-Summer? Curious to hear reasons on why a break is taken if it is?

I.e: Trying not to kill pups? Maintaining the population for your hunting areas?

 

[giles]

Opportunistic

 

[CNP-Outdoors]

Opportunistic

I’m not sure what that means? Does that mean you go when you have the opportunity any time of year?

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

I’m not sure what that means? Does that mean you go when you have the opportunity any time of year?

He's Amish kills everything he sees when he sees it

 

[Big_Holla]

I'd guess most people are hunting other critters and when the opportunity arises they would take a shot at a coyote. As in deer hunting or turkey hunting. Not many on here actually GO and hunt specifically for coyote and I would suspect that goes for a lot of the regular hunting community.

 

[Knelly]

I usually take time off starting in turkey season until end of August. Mainly because April to August I have too many other events and things planned. On a few of our properties when the hay is cut, I will make an exception and hunt a few times during the summer months. Mainly a nighttime hunter but will make some day stands also.

 

[giles]

I'd guess most people are hunting other critters and when the opportunity arises they would take a shot at a coyote. As in deer hunting or turkey hunting. Not many on here actually GO and hunt specifically for coyote and I would suspect that goes for a lot of the regular hunting community.

This. Or when I see one by the house I will try and locate it in a scope. I have a truck gun so if I see one while fishing too. But I do not target them. When I see one, I try and do my duty to eliminate that animal. I am an opportunistic coyote hunter. Opportunity presents itself and I hunt.

 

[CNP-Outdoors]

I usually take time off starting in turkey season until end of August. Mainly because April to August I have too many other events and things planned. On a few of our properties when the hay is cut, I will make an exception and hunt a few times during the summer months. Mainly a nighttime hunter but will make some day stands also.

I’m a night hunter. Thanks for replying.

 

[CNP-Outdoors]

I'd guess most people are hunting other critters and when the opportunity arises they would take a shot at a coyote. As in deer hunting or turkey hunting. Not many on here actually GO and hunt specifically for coyote and I would suspect that goes for a lot of the regular hunting community.

Coyotes are my primary pursuit. I hunt other animals also. Thanks for your reply.

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

The best thing to do is go peer inside a yote den or two, to check the population & what they're eating. We have an expert or two here on TOO that can offer some insight.....

 

[Bowhunter57]

I kill 'em all 24/7 and 365 with extreme prejudice! No free pass!
The only good coyote is a dead coyote.

I shot this one, while it was stalking my dog. I cut out its' K9 teeth and made a necklace.

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

I kill 'em all 24/7 and 365 with extreme prejudice! No free pass!
The only good coyote is a dead coyote.

I shot this one, while it was stalking my dog. I cut out its' K9 teeth and made a necklace.
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Tell us how you really feel ....lol

 

[giles]

I kill 'em all 24/7 and 365 with extreme prejudice! No free pass!
The only good coyote is a dead coyote.

I shot this one, while it was stalking my dog. I cut out its' K9 teeth and made a necklace.
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With a statement like that, a man must ask, how many a year do you kill?

 

[Bowhunter57]

With a statement like that, a man must ask, how many a year do you kill?

Not enough. Some years I'll get less than a dozen and other years a few more.
The fur isn't worth anything....or I should say not enough to justify dragging them out of the woods. Last year, $10 was the best they could do on a prime fur. Russia and China are our best fur buyers and their economy isn't any better than ours....and then there's the political discord between us and them.

I just ticks me off, when I'm bow hunting deer and I have to deal with coyote interference on deer patterns.

 

[Bowhunter57]

Tell us how you really feel ....lol

Sure....pull up a seat.

Back in the early 80s, I was out hunting fox at night and got thirsty, so I stopped at a local truck stop for a bottle of water. It was a Saturday night and the parking lot was full, so I parked out with the semis. While walking past a cattle car trailer, something growled at me and the trailer stunk to high heaven. I turned on my headlamp and it was full of coyotes with ear tags. I asked the truck driver where he got them and where he was taking them. He said he picked them up from a coyote farm in Wisconsin and he was delivering them here.

He explained that State Farm ordered them and CSX was distributing them, per the Ohio DNR. I thought it sounded a bit far stretched. I have a duck hunting buddy that is a State Farm agent, so I stopped by his house and told him what I had encountered. He said that he has had that paperwork come across his desk a time or two. I asked how the DNR was getting away with this, especially with the "paper trail". He said it was disconnected from them via State Farm and CSX.

Kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, when I think of our tax dollars going against us, by our own DNR.

 

[Big_Holla]

Not enough. Some years I'll get less than a dozen and other years a few more.
The fur isn't worth anything....or I should say not enough to justify dragging them out of the woods. Last year, $10 was the best they could do on a prime fur. Russia and China are our best fur buyers and their economy isn't any better than ours....and then there's the political discord between us and them.

I just ticks me off, when I'm bow hunting deer and I have to deal with coyote interference on deer patterns.

Coyote Ken would certainly disagree as to their worth!!

 

[brock ratcliff]

Sure....pull up a seat.

Back in the early 80s, I was out hunting fox at night and got thirsty, so I stopped at a local truck stop for a bottle of water. It was a Saturday night and the parking lot was full, so I parked out with the semis. While walking past a cattle car trailer, something growled at me and the trailer stunk to high heaven. I turned on my headlamp and it was full of coyotes with ear tags. I asked the truck driver where he got them and where he was taking them. He said he picked them up from a coyote farm in Wisconsin and he was delivering them here.

He explained that State Farm ordered them and CSX was distributing them, per the Ohio DNR. I thought it sounded a bit far stretched. I have a duck hunting buddy that is a State Farm agent, so I stopped by his house and told him what I had encountered. He said that he has had that paperwork come across his desk a time or two. I asked how the DNR was getting away with this, especially with the "paper trail". He said it was disconnected from them via State Farm and CSX.

Kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, when I think of our tax dollars going against us, by our own DNR.

I’m all in…
And I don’t doubt it a bit. The dang things showed up overnight in my area. Same with bobcats. I don’t think their population simply boomed from nothing to everywhere as quickly as it did.