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Not a tractor in sight - what where they doing?

SweetFeet

SweetFeet

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Besides trespassing?

Recently there were 4 (maybe 5) pickups hanging around the area one day. All had big kennels in the box.

Later on, my husband heard a big commotion of dogs near the far end of our land. Awhile later, he and our daughter walked up there. Found a lot of dog tracks and some blood? Also drag marks in the snow. What would they be using dogs for this time of year? (I believe pheasant and deer season are both long past.)
 
Yup, coyote hunting. The party line starts humming around here if anyone sees a pickup with a dog box. It is always the city boys doing some trespassing and coyote hunting. Makes us all madder than a hatter.

If you need to hunt something for food come right on over anytime. If you are doing it like those boys you can just keep on a driving. I'm not a coyote fan, but I will take care of any I have trouble with like any farmer should. Turning dogs loose to run through sections and then driving the roads shooting doesn't get you any friends here.
 
Coyote and fox are open here in WI, and hounds are used for both, but more commonly for coyote. Hound hunters have a hard time remembering to ask first here, too.
 
Speaking of city boys wanting to shoot something - - when I was a kid, some city slickers showed up at the farm across the road from us. They wanted to shoot the pigeons that were roosting in our neighbors barn. He told them "no".

That was the joke of day for months afterwards.

No idea why they were on your farm at this time.

Tom in TN
 
Bet ya it"s Coyotes... A lot of that go"en on in Pa this time of year.. My Son in Law"s group
of guys shot #60 last saturday morning..
 
We have those coyote hunters in this area too. The last few years they have been leaving our place alone but I have had trouble getting rid of them before. The ones I have met are not the kind of people you want to have around. I will leave it at that.
Zach
 
Coyotes. Your comment made me think of a comment a rancher made years ago. Some guys were hanging around like that driving slow etc. He confronted them and asked what they were doing. "Nothing" "Well go do it someplace else then" was his answer.
 

They run deer with dogs year-round here. They like to find a place where there are parallel roads half to a mile apart with woods in between. They get set on one road and turn the dogs loose on the other road into the woods to run the deer towards where the guns are set and waiting. They make the kill, haul a** with the deer then gather the dogs up and go. Its a cat & mouse game with the Game Warden.
 
Don't have that around here anymore, neighbor has all feeder cattle that spook real easy, they shoot any dog or coyote that looks at thier property.
 

Years ago on a trip I met a guy from Kansas. He said they had trouble with coyote hunters chasing coyotes in Jeeps with a sharp steel uptight on the front to cut fence wire when they ran through it.

KEH
 
Here in OK, hogs are open season all year. Not much "boy stuff" going on here, but people bring their hunting dogs out for exercise (let them chase coon and bobcat). Had some show up and go after my dogs on my property..... almost took action when I saw the pick-up slowly approaching. Old farmer apologized, he was from a neighboring county. Told him to do it at home.... he looked kinda funny at me, loaded his dogs up and left....
Our growing problem seem to be big city hunters (from Dallas, TX area, among other places)fly in by helicopter and land near farms and working farmers on a tractor in the field asking if they could hunt for the day or who to talk to to get permission.... Some don't even ask .....!!
 
Probably hunting coyote. There were a couple of guys here on the weekend doing that. GPS collars on the dogs... they run the coyote and the guys get ahead and blast the coyote. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Rod
 
If it was around here, I'd say they might be coon hunting. It's not done by many of us any more, and I haven't been for maybe 20 years now. But we'd turn some blueticks or redbones loose and follow them for quite a ways sometimes picking up a trail and treeing a coon. Could be a lot of fun, and the last few times I did it were from the back of a friend's mule...
 
Coyote "hunters" Generally low lifes, on disability, who like to ride around in their trucks and pretend they are hunters. They break all the rules, shoot from the road, shoot flat, across open fields, with no regard for what is over the hill.

They give all real hunters a bad name. They are only midly tolerated at all because they make a big deal with some who hate coyotes, plus, if you cross them your barn or hay bales will burn down.

Gene
 
Thanks for all the replies guys! We wondered about coyote... did not think of coons. I also wondered about poaching deer. Hope there are not Bobcats here.
 
SF, I'm an hr NW of metro, and we have lotsa coyotes around here..in country that is 80% open fields. I've heard as many as 3 groups 'talking' to each other some nights. I have very well respected, well-mannered neighbors that tour the area and dispatch the trouble makers. I'm glad they do that- I even had a coyote come within 30 feet of the house, several times, last summer...MID MORNING!..just to raid the cat food. Main reason why I finally bought a 20 gauge.

In the 90s, a hunter from KY/TN showed up one October night to hunt coons. Can't remember how he said he found our farm, but several years later, same guy shows up in the dark, evening, at milking time, remembered my fields, asked to go again! Never saw him again, hope he had good luck. I'm glad to see the coyote hunters. Pheasants have been light lately, hunters tell me the coyotes eat the eggs.
 
(quoted from post at 20:23:10 02/26/13) Don't you Yankees rabbit hunt?
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Coyotes have killed them all.

I don't have much use for the coyote "hunters" but at least they stick tot he road. The deer "hunters" tend to to sneak in the backside of my farm and set up shop where they can snipe at deer 3-500 yards away. Those clowns are why we have fat coyotes since they don't go and check to see if they hit it. If they don't see the deer fall they assume a clean miss.

I'm in full support of hunting, but these so called "hunters" will be the cause when we lose our right to hunt. You want to hunt, then go do it on State land, rent some or buy some, simple as that. I don't pay a mortgage and taxes so someone else can play on my land.
 
Had the same thing here 2-3 times. Last time was 6-8 trucks parked on the road. They came here asking if they could shoot one that ran under an old van parked behind the barn. Finally explains what they were doing. They must have been on the property to know it was there which I don't appreciate, but atleast they asked to shoot it.
 
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