Mr VJP

I hope you guys realize the only way they could even make this law work, is by knowing exactly what firearms you own. If you think they aren't pushing for complete registration of all firearms and their owners, you're naive or in denial. That is exactly the purpose of "universal background checks" too. It can't work without total firearm registration. Why is registration a bad thing? Registration leads to confiscation, and it always has! Unless you are a voter in the district these anti-gun tyrants represent, there is nothing you can do to them.

Killed this one in NY one morning in 2014 prior to the deer opener. Called it in using an old Herter's Dying Rabbit mouth call. A real loud squealer of a call. After deer seasons are done, I find I can only get them to come in at night. I like to hunt them after dark when there is snow and a full moon. It's still important to watch the wind. Took two this year, but took them while deer hunting.

Somalia has banned any celebration of Christmas there. Lots of Americans defend it too. Imagine if we banned Ramadan in the US. Merry Christmas to all, even if you aren't allowed to celebrate publicly. http://www.aol.com/article/2015/12/24/somali-government-bans-christmas-celebrations/21287964/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl15%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D1645678439

It seems to me certain people cannot differentiate between concentrated coyote problems in a given area of NY State, and the overall coyote population across the entire state. Just like you have more crime in the cities than in the rural areas, you have coyote problems in some areas where they're not a problem in the entire state. In areas where they are overpopulated, they must be controlled, just as criminals in the cities cannot be ignored because the statewide crime rate is low.

What? Many an animal is dispatched after the first shot fails to hit the target. If it's not a "one shot, one kill" scenario, it's not to be assumed it's wounded, crippled or unrecovered, unless you want to paint hunters as brutes. But I'm sure you wouldn't ever dream of doing that.

Too many people in NY actually support these idiotic proposals because they know nothing about firearms, their rights, the 2nd Amendment or the consequences of these laws. And if they do know about these things, many NYer's just don't care, thinking it won't affect them personally.

If they stopped selling these firearms at Cabela's, their stock value would drop like a rock. I can't see the majority of their stock holders going along with that. I could see a real backlash from gun buyers happening too.

I believe he was referring to people who have land or farms. Not people who have no skin in the game.

Probably thought it was hibernating, but with this warm weather, it wasn't.

Saw this today and thought it was a good question. "If we’re going to let our policy choices be influenced by jihadi reaction, how do we justify legalized gay marriage?" —Jim Geraghty

They do. That's why farmers get deer and bear depredation permits.

He was just doing his part to show how dangerous guns are.

Let me know when I can go fugg things up and not go to jail!

The ones they physically check on the roads are aged by their teeth. They can extrapolate that percentage number into the overall take.

Admiral Ace Lyons gives a short speech regarding mistakes America made that put us in the position we are in today regarding Islam. Only 3 minutes and well worth viewing. http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4

You prove my point. Maybe there were some then, but they were so few nobody noticed. There were none by me or anywhere around me. Now there are lots of them and you guys keep saying they are not a problem and we needn't think they are doing any damage to deer and turkey populations. You sir, seem to lack any ability to use logic. Do none of you guys have any ability to see what this area was like 40 or 50 years ago? Most of you are too young to remember those days, when deer were plentiful and turkey were on the rise. The problem of coyote over population didn't exist then, and it shouldn't exist now. As long as we keep making excuses and preaching this "tolerance" for lots of coyotes, things are only going to keep moving in the wrong direction. There's no convincing any who think we don't have a problem. You can justify your positions with all the trendy studies you can find that support your thinking, but decades from now, when you see how wrong you were, you'll realize what fools you were. There are many folks out west where wolves were reintroduced that now realize what fools they were to allow it. There are many in California who now realize allowing cougar populations to expand wasn't a good idea either. All the studies done then said it was a good idea. Ever stop to think studies get done when payments are made to do them? Who's paying for them? Do they have a motive Do they print studies that disagree? People out west don't trust studies anymore. I never did.

Perhaps you missed the part where I said I don't care what your "studies" say when what I SEE indicates they're BS. And Law, I could post links for you about anti's but don't feel like wasting time to prove what you won't believe anyway.

For all you coyote protectionists, I bought my NY land 20 years ago. Lots of deer and turkey then and NO coyote. After 5 years, saw my first coyote. Since then have seen fewer and fewer deer and turkey and lots more coyote. Here, they run in packs of 5 or 6 and they DO take down adult deer. These are hybrid coyote/wolf that often exceed 40 pounds and they all have wolf DNA that traces back to Minnesota. I DO hunt them and it requires night hunting. Once the deer hunting starts, the yotes become completely nocturnal, spending their days here hidden in holes in the ground. I've personally seen them disappear under a blowdown and not come up the entire day I sat in my stand waiting for them. Most hunters are not willing to hunt at night in the bitter cold. I really don't give two sheets what any of your so called "scientific", so called "evidence", says. I'll base my beliefs on what I actually see. Too often the data you guys supply comes from sources that are more animal friendly and anti hunting than pro hunting or wildlife management. These days I kill far more coyote than deer or turkey. In my area, coyote didn't exist at all 30 years ago. As far as I'm concerned, the sooner it reverts back to the way it was, the better. They are invasive predators. Show me scientific evidence that proves they aren't. I have no evidence to prove my theory, but I wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, the lack of deer and turkey becomes the reason for the anti hunting crowd demanding your deer and turkey hunting be banned. Anti's have been trying to promote natural predation in lieu of hunting for decades.

Correct, but they keep trying. When the situation gets completely out of control in NE PA, they'll pass it, but it will be too late.

The contests in PA pay well. http://blog.pennlive.com/pa-sportsman/2015/02/coyote_hunter_claims_biggest_b.html

I think PA understands the problem, unlike NY. http://www.wtae.com/news/local/pa-house-oks-bill-to-allow-25-bounty-on-coyotes/23448870 This was from a couple of years ago. Never passed though. Democrats in PA killed it.

I really believe political correctness has prevented implementation of many solutions to all of this country's current problems. I believe it is by design. American violence will not be eliminated by taking guns from good people. The first step to solving problems, is properly identifying the problems. Bill Essex said it very well. " I began selling guns at Big 5 in Visalia, California in 1977. for nearly 40 years I've watched what has become an obvious incremental creep toward choking off the ability of a law abiding citizen to own a firearm. It's a brilliant, long term strategy of passing law after law that tightens the noose of regulation tighter and tighter until owning a gun legally will be impractical. They will trumpet "See, We didn't ban guns" We just won't be able to shoot them"

I think it tends to enhance the point. Why is that what you seem to find important, rather than the message being conveyed?

First off, I don't fear them. I hate them. 2nd, they don't fear death, but they do fear how they die. If they want death, give them life, at hard labor. Regardless, these are the people due process could target and intercept, if it's energies weren't being wasted trying to persecute responsible gun owners. The government is not wasting this crises on criminals and terrorists, that's for sure.