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  1. 7 hours ago, Curmudgeon said:

     

    You talk about eliminating habitat. We haven't eliminated coyote habitat at all. We have create a whole new place for them, including urban areas, by removing wolves from the east.

     

    Are you saying that it is a good thing that coyotes are living in densely populated areas? 

  2. 53 minutes ago, Curmudgeon said:

    This is a problem of perception more than reality. See https://urbancoyoteresearch.com/

    The big amygdala crowd always brings up these scary predator scenarios.

    I am glad that you and your sheep can coexist with the coyotes in your area but, the pack that lives by my house has gotten 10 of my grandfather's chickens, taken down an 8 point buck in my yard and starred down one of my neighbor's when she went to cook dinner on her grill. 

    So I would tend to think the ones by me have some what lost their fear of people and have moved up the food chain from just rodents. Just my experiences. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Culvercreek hunt club said:

    He shouldn't have been taken to a hospital. He should have been brought to the nearest garage and his nuts placed in a vice to find out any information about events he may know about. Then tossed on a plane to Gitmo

    That would be a little difficult, the report is that the only thing he blew up was his johnson.

  4. Just checked gunbroker and they are going from anywhere from low $400s to multiple $1000s depending on condition options and who did the sporterization.  I have been looking at either a mil surp or sportized 03 for a few years as a long range rifle and I must say you ended up with a beaut. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, wildcat junkie said:

     

    My son was supposed to be sitting in the tripod this evening, but he thought it was "too cold". TOO COLD? I knew if I sat that stand I would get a crack at a buck. The weather conditions were perfect.

    I once sat a day out in Wisconsin in 1975 when the thermometer on the window sill read -18F. That's "too cold", not +30F and 4 mph winds! The day before that frigid Wisconsin morning we spent the whole day out in -15F. You could see ice crystals in the air when you looked in the right direction and the sap was exploding inn the jack pine limbs.

    Where you hunting bare foot and was that stand up hills both ways :cheese:.

    In all seriousness that is a great buck congratulations.

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  6. Although they could be eliminated from N.Y., with current attitudes (not every one shoots on site) and the reduced number of hunters in the state I doubt it will ever happen.

    Maybe if fur prices increase to where trapping would actually pay or if coyotes ever started encroaching on the suburbs and started attacking people's pets it would change attitudes but I doubt it for the foreseeable future.

  7. 1 hour ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

    Last season I shit a buck at 8 yards with it, he went about 75 yards with an absolute mess of a blood trail


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    If your crapping like that I would ask if you had the blood trail.:rolleyes:

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  8. Although I agree that indiscriminate killing of coyotes has an overall negative effect of their predation habits. According to the article it's a better for farmers to have coyotes with stable families because they hunt their natural prey rather than livestock. 

    As hunters we are generally after the same prey as coyotes  (deer/fawns, turkeys/poults). I would think that what is prescribed in the article is counter to what our goals would generally be.

    To have an actual effect on coyote predation the base population of the area would need to be decreased. The only real way to achieve this would be to aggressively trap, not just shoot one every now and then (this generally causes the population to rise).

    Below is an article from Dr. Grant Woods on the subject.

    http://www.growingdeer.tv/2017/07/21/deer-hunting-and-management-the-effect-of-the-changing-predator-base/

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