Darned Coyotes

Ultradog MN · Nov 9, 2009

Shot a nice doe up in Aitkin Sunday morning. Went and found her but left her where she lay while we went and looked for the deer Mike shot at. Came back about an hour and a half later to fetch her and found that the coyote had been there since and ate a darned big hole in her side. Mostly he just ate the rib meat which usually isn't useable anyway. Got a little into the one backstrap too. She's still a nice doe though and we recovered her.
Don't know where all the coyotes come from already.
I grew up there and we never even heard of one in that country. Now they're eating it up.
Funny thing was that Mike saw the coyote pass almost under his stand. Then he heard a couple of deer go crashing off out of the coyote's way. Those deer were the doe and her fawn that passed by me and I took the doe.
So in a way I owed him a share. But I would have rather left him the entrails instead of the nice doe.
Don't you think?
If I see him next weekend I might just pull the trigger.
Mike missed his deer by the way. He never misses.
Way better shot than me.
But that's why they call it hunting.
Oh, and to keep this tractor related, we recovered the doe with the boom pole on my Ford and let her hang there all day.
Just to make it official.

JMS/.MN · Nov 9, 2009

Jerry, we can hear them most any nite, and you remember we live in Meeker County, SW of St. Cloud. Often hear 3 different packs, talking to each other. They"ve been around for over a decade, and gaining numbers. Even had black bear sightings this year, within two miles. paul and flying Belgian, look out- they"re coming your way!

meanmtn · Nov 9, 2009

we have packs of them running around north east new jersey. chasing deer and keeping me awake at night with their howling.

schmuck · Nov 10, 2009

Trappers used to keep song dog numbers in check, but with the rise in fuel prices and fall in fur prices, a lot of them have given it up. If you get bored sometime, do a little google research on coyotes. From what I have gathered, they seem to be as close to a furry version of a cockroach as there is.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 10, 2009

Got them here in Virgina also.

Plumcrazy · Nov 10, 2009

I don"t let anyone shoot coyotes on my place. What few we have around here clean up the deer carcusses the slob hunters throw out on the side roads. Also, most "hunters" I see now days don"t even look for blood after they shoot at a deer. If it doesn"t fall dead in it"s tracks, they walk away. I have found four dead deer so far combining corn so far, and I"m only half done. Gun deer season is still five day"s away. (Michigan)

hayray · Nov 10, 2009

I told all my deer hunters this year to let the coyotes go, I want them to kill some deer. So far they are not doing a very good job. Our opener is next Sunday.

Vernon in Ks · Nov 10, 2009

If your waiting for coyotes to take care of the deer population, your going to wait a long time. They may be able to take a young fawn but never a healthy adult. A pack of coydogs maybe but not coyotes.

4 bottem · Nov 10, 2009

Hoping they switch their eating habits from deer to these feathered rats they call turkeys up here in northern Maine. Deer herd is really hurting.

4 bottem · Nov 10, 2009

Don't mistake western coyotes with eastern coyotes. Eastern are much bigger and they do take down adult deer. ED

Dave from MN · Nov 10, 2009

Have them all over around here. Just wait until these cougars that every one is seeing on trail camera's ( that the DNR insist's are not in MN)start exploding in population. At least you can shoot a coyote.

Mattlt · Nov 10, 2009

I had a pack yipping near my yard at 4:30 this morning. Eastern McLeod County. Saw 2 in broad daylight on Saturday Afternoon, suppose the deer hunters chased them up.

glennster · Nov 10, 2009

here is a link to an interesting website about hunting coyotes. these guys are good!!
coyote gods

greygoat · Nov 10, 2009

What's the best bait for Coyote...POODLE !

Chad Franke · Nov 10, 2009

Out here in NE Colorado, not shooting the coyotes you see while deer or antelope hunting could cost you permission to hunt... Anybody who runs cattle in this part of the country carries a rifle in the pickup, it"s amazing the damage a coyote pack can do to a herd of cattle at calving time...

Leyzsasha · Nov 10, 2009

What are doing shooting at a doe with a young one. Now the doe is dead and you can almost guarantee the little one will not make it through the winter. I have no problem with shooting deer, especially the over populated does. But, if they have little ones, we leave them alone. Just a side note, I leave Friday for the Michigan opener and will be gone the whole weeks.

Nancy Howell · Nov 10, 2009

A couple of years ago about 10:00 in the morning, James and I were out at the shop working. A deer came running past about 75 yards from us. That deer was running just about full out. I thought it was odd.

A few seconds later, two coyotes came running through the same way the deer had gone. They were after that deer and it was not a fawn.

We've had one looking for a hot meal around the shop for a while now. Found where it got a possum maybe 15 yds from the shop and now two of our shop cats are gone.

Two weeks ago we found coyote droppings right in the path between the house and the shop. Again, it was about mid-morning. We had been up early and since the droppings were right in the path, if they had been there earlier we would have seen them.

We hear them frequently down in the bottoms at night, but it sure seems like they're on the prowl at all hours now.

Wish they would figure out a way to feed on the feral pigs.

chuck t · Nov 10, 2009

This is wrong. A deer born in the summer is certainly able to survive by itself.

Ole Shovel · Nov 10, 2009

Getting over run with coyotes too. It don't help we now have a game warden that hates coyote hunters harassing them when there is nothing illegal about shooting them that prey on your livestock. He should be fired from his government fat cat job and made to get his living off the land and livestock and then see what his attitude is towards coyotes. We don't have very many rabbits or as many pheasants and quail now because of stupid coyote over population he has caused !

kyplowboy · Nov 10, 2009

If it ain't got spots it should make it fine. If it don't, well that is just that many beans some farmer won't loose to the government's goats next summer.

Dave

Fordfarmer · Nov 10, 2009

Got them here too, and sometimes the "big coyotes". Good thing is, you can shoot coyotes on your own land, any time except during gun deer season. (doesn't mean that doesn't happen) NEVER had them around when I was a kid... never had bear then either. I was in my late teens/early 20s before I saw either a coyote or bear. Hear coyotes regularly now, and see bear occasionally. Neighbor had 3 bear in one field last week. Guess I'd rather have a coyote find my deer than a bear.

hayray · Nov 10, 2009

Oh that ain't true. When the snow gets deep coyote packs will take out full sized deer all the time.

Southtowns27 · Nov 10, 2009

We have BIG "coyotes" here in Western NY. I coworker showed me a picture of a 12 point buck that he shot laying next to a coyote he also shot while he was out hunting... The coyote is the SAME SIZE as the 12 point. It's crazy. We never had them around here when I was a kid. Now we have black bears as well, and back during the summer, a guy hit a dang MOUNTAIN LION with his truck 8 miles up the road. I saw the pictures myself, made the local paper as well.

David from Kansas · Nov 10, 2009

Yesterday morning I was in the cattle lot near the house and looked east in the small pasture (30 acres) where I winter cows and there were 3 of them; two mangy ones and one healthy one. They didn't pay any attention to the cattle but the healthy one saw me and wandered back the direction he had come.
Yes, when we are deer hunting and see a coyote, we usually try to get him.

wolfman · Nov 10, 2009

Coyotes get pretty brave when they hear a loud piece of machinery like a haybine. They get close thinking you'll shake out a rabbit or...Lost 4 calves to coyotes here in s w Pa a few springs ago. I'm busy harvesting hay to feed to cattle to have calves to feed the coyote.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 10, 2009

I was hauling in round bales of hay today with my tractor. There was a coyote laying on top of one of them. I got closer and he jumped off the bale and yawned and stretched. My next trip to the field I brought a 22 cal. rifle. Sure enough he was still laying near the bale. I got him in the crosshairs and fired once and the gun jammed. He run into the woods. I probably need to sight in my scope. It didn't look like he was hurt ver bad.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 11, 2009

I have so much crop damage from deer that the coyotes are welcome. Any enemy of my enemy is a friend of mine.

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