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True that. They are easily controlled when dealt with at a young age. Den’s, summers after hay fields being cut will let the air out of the problem quick. Then you will only see say the normal amount. Sitting on 3000 acres listening to a pack in every direction yipping back and forth to each other will show a problem. They would never be legally controlled in a state with seasons on them once the problem got big. Your right on hunters. Running with dogs around here keeps them moving in the winter.

If your property has what coyotes want and need to survive you will have to kill them every single time you see them to put a serious hurting on them. even in the 24/7 365 states, they are heavily populated.. when you see packs in summer or 8+ pups they are rebuilding.. I posted here a few years back of 11-13 pups in one litter on my property. Pretty wild.. throw in 2 or 3 coyote pairs that have 10 pups and a good share survive, that's 20-30 coyotes made by say 3 sets of parents.. They are really built to survive.. Fascinating creatures if you ask me. I love hunting them, but like anything else they need controlling as well. I think many people don't hunt them too much in warm weather bc there is so much else going on people are busy and doing other things. Winter creates a lot of down time and many people "Think" they're going to become coyote hunters, but they really just become coyote educators lol.

Today was Day 2 and we scored on 11 birds. It was a rough day on the ocean but we did good. Another boat that launched the same time as us had 4 hunters on it. All 4 of them got seasick and they had to quit early. It was definitely a challenge shooting at flying birds just above the water from a boat bobbing up and down in the swells and waves.

Here is a few from that litter i mentioned, I cant seem to find the pics where all of them are in one frame. That fall I got actually video footage on a camera of this pack(In September) killing a fawn, and the doe running crazy trying to distract the coyotes. You cna hear the fawn screaming in the background, and the doe and other coyotes running wild back and forth in front of the cam.. Then little while later, see the fawn in pieces being carried away.. This past summer they were back using this same den site, and always out at las tlight and into the mornings. We killed 5 of them opening week, calling after dark..

My bad . I received it as a small picture and thought it was a Yote . I can see the red on it in the the picture I posted . I thought the hearing went first but maybe it's the eyes .

I just picked this up not too long ago, H&R Topper Model 490….30-30, 22 Remington Jet Magnum, .410 and 20 gauge barrels.

Would love to see some of the den pics. I've heard of doz'w/100's of claims of den pics setup's. Asked everyone of them for pics. Still waiting for the 1st. Not sure why they are never posted.

I've been doing predator control for a couple of decades and have seen what an unchecked coyote population can do to an area's wildlife. They were pushed from the western states to the east coast 70 years ago. I used to think that they would become a normal part of the ecosystem and mother nature would control their numbers like she does with other animals, but coyote are survivors and can adapt where other animals perish. We put a trail camera on a coyote den and found out why the deer population was dwindling. Small pets around the area started disappearing and some thought it was devil worshipers, but what we found was that the coyote were at work doing what predators do, as after we cleaned out all the devil worshippers, the pets were still disappearing ! Mother nature needed a hand in controlling them, as left unchecked like any evasive species, they would've cleaned out every animal they could get their paws on and then probably die of mange or rabies, which is a painful death. So I've been hunting them and in the areas I hunt and do farm over watch in, I know it makes a difference. I've left out dead cow and legal picked up deer road kill for bait and have had nothing touch it for weeks in the areas I hunt. Of course that makes them gather in areas I don't have permission to hunt and all of a sudden I'm getting calls in those areas now. More and more people are getting tired of the growing coyote presence and their getting harassed more now a days, but I think the coyote will be around forever in NY state in good numbers as long as there's a coyote season and trapper numbers dwindle because of the declining fur prices. No one wants to wear dead animal fur anymore. SJC

Friend of mine Greg Hertel in Wyoming sent a couple of photos of a treed Mt Lion by his Airedale "Stitch". Greg loves hunting those Lions. Al

Here is a Red Fox on County Line Road in Walworth