So close of getting my coyote#6...

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There’s plenty of coyotes out there and the ones around people eat house cats and they will also kill dogs if they get the chance. I’ve lost two cats to coyotes in the past three years, the one I have now seems smart enough to stay out of the woods at night so maybe he’ll last longer lol! But there are definitely good reasons to kill coyotes, they come into my yard weekly looking for opportunities and I see their tracks often. I like coyotes a lot, but I will absolutely shoot them if I get a chance.
Good luck with the hunt Max115!
 
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As others are going to say, they are a nuisance. They are the apex predator in my area and have no known predators to worry about except man. They are numerous and a difficult to hunt. They are a real danger to pets when they are many for they wipe out the ground squirrels, rabbits, deer, farmers chickens, small dogs and cats, you name it. . Fawns are hit hard here.

They look cuddly but they are viscous. Last year a friend lost a beagle to one rabbit hunting. Farmers have drives around here with 20 -30 people communicating. Hunting with dogs a crew follows the dogs while everyone else drives to an ambush point. Last year in one day they killed 12.

I am not a drive hunter and prefer to set up and ambush at night. To make it interesting I use airguns.l

Have to disagree with your definition of a Hunter. Kills when they must. What's that mean?
 
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IMO they are the same species.

Are coyotes, wolves, and dogs really separate species? | Writing in Biology

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The family Canidae contains all species of living and extinct quadrupedal carnivores resembling the domestic dog. This includes domestic dogs themselves, coyotes, wolves, foxes, dingoes and many others. Some interbreeding can occur between coyotes and dogs, as well as dogs and wolves and wolves and coyotes. The offspring of these pairings are fully viable and usually fertile, begging the question are these three varieties of canines really separate species. The wolf, Canis Lupis, is the largest of these three species and has overlapping ranges with the coyote, Canis latrans. These ranges also unsurprisingly overlap with human settlement, meaning there is the potential for both of these species to interbreed with a person pet dog or a stray domestic dog, the species Canis familiaris. What separates these three as different species is their tendency under ideal circumstances to avoid breeding with members of the other species. Although interbreeding is possible, in a proper habitat with adequate resources and fertile mates available it will not occur. These rare hybrids only occur when there is a shortage of healthy and viable mates of the same species.
 
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nobody1 said:
What is the point of killing a coyote?
Was the coyote dangerous, eating your farm animals, what else?

The best hunters are those who kills when they must not when they want to have fun.
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@nobody1 The OP does pest work on farms(private property). The animals that he kills are problem animals for farmers. This can mean that the prey upon farms animals, eat the farm animals’ feed, damage property, or their presence (in large numbers), their excrement, or urine pose health risks to farm animals and humans.

Every animal hunted does not need to be hunted for food. Hunting in itself is an act of conservation. Hunters help maintain a healthy balance within an ecosystem. As stated earlier in this thread, coyotes in many areas are apex predators, meaning they are at the top of the food chain. That is to say that disease, other coyotes, environmental conditions, motor vehicles, and hunters are generally what keep their population numbers in check. Regulatory agencies employ biologists to study environments and populations. After compiling statistics their information can be used to help enact regulations according to their findings and projections.

As for your sweepingly vague opinion about the best hunters, what does stating that accomplish here? I have a completely different opinion about hunters that I hold in high regard. If you object to hunters and pesters hunting problem animals, perhaps it would be less stressful for you if you refrained from reading posts, comments, and viewing photos in hunting forums, particularly here on AGN. If you’re just trolling then move along.
 
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Thank you all for commenting about the reasons for dispatching some coyotes in certain situations.
For the record, I am helping the farmers to thin out some the coyotes that hunt in their private properties where they have live stocks and pets.

Update: The rabbits bait that I had left on the field was gone the next morning. However, it was taken by a different coyote as my trail cam recorded. To make it more complicated for me, this coyote showed up at 10pm on two consecutive nights; Whereas the one I was stalking came at 5am. Good and bad news I guess. I have more targets but timing just got complicated not. When should I show up and what time? LOL.

Now it would be just relying on my dumb luck to see one when I go there this Friday or Saturday night.

This second coyote was a bit larger and it had the mangy tail. It was one of the coyotes that had showed up in my trail cam recording last year. I am wondering if the bushy tail one that came at 5am was the offspring.

Anyway, it became more complicated for me as the rats number is low and I only tagged and collected one rat last night. I was hoping to get a few rats so that I could just sit and watch while the coyote feasts on them and get comfortable again before I attempt to shoot it.

I will post the video "Pesting$156 - Pursuit of Coyote#6" today. This video is like a journal of how I planned and carried out the hunt by shooting and collecting rats and rabbits for bait. Reviewing trail cam footages and actually sitting down in the cold dark night (6 hours) trying to get a shot.
Although I failed in the video, but I have learned more lessons of what not to do and hopefully better prepared for my next hunt.

Stay tuned and thank you for coming along with me with my hunt for the next coyote.
 
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LOL. ya I was actually thinking about buying some roasted chicken from Costco last night when I was shopping with my wife. Have the breasts and legs then leave the rest on the field and just sit there all night, haha. I should have gone a bit easy on them rats last month. Now it is like looking for gold nugget when I go there to shoot. Well, I am planning a hunt tonight so wish me luck.

PS. I posted the "Coyote#6 that got away" video in the Hunting section. Please have a look there, thanks.
 
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Another cold and miserable night. I was there from 10pm - 3am and no one coyote showed up in my target zone, but plenty of activities in the field in front of me as a pack or maybe two packs of coyotes were howling and calling through out the night. It was both exciting and scary at the same time. Unfortunately I wasn't able to spot them with my NV200 as it was foggy last night.

I got to the farm around 9:45pm last night and I pinned down a rabbit that I shot the night before along with a single rat. The rat number is very low lately at this location. It was too bad because my new plan was to gather a few rats and just let the coyote(s) eat them without me doing anything other than watching and observing them. In hopes that it would get more comfortable and become less wary as it returns for more rats after. Well, that plan went down the toilet as no coyotes came at all. Very strange as they could be heard close by every time howling each time a siren went off or the neighbour's dogs barking at them.

I usually listened carefully to the barking dogs or the ducks in the area. Generally that meant the coyotes were near by. I would get extremely excited and my heart rates would spike each time I heard them howling near by. However, this night wasn't meant to be for me to see one.

I texted the owner the next day and he told me the bait is still there, so I would have wasted more time if I had stayed a bit longer.

This pursuit of my coyote #6 has proven both difficult and challenging. Not only I had to endure the cold and fatigue, but also to get my timing right.

I retrieved the trail cam footages and saw that a different coyote had taken the last two rabbits at around 10pm unlike the one I have been stalking that came around 5am. I did, however, recorded the coyotes howling in the field with my new Oneleaf NV200 night vision binoculars. I covered the LCD screen with a towel and just pointed the unit towards the target area and kept it on with the IR activated. That was my other plan to use the IR from the NV200 and no IR from my Impact scope. The idea is not to have a moving IR if I have to track and follow the coyote around when it comes into the field. My last Pard007S footage showed the coyote alerted and fled the area after I had turned on the external IR.

I am a bit discourage at the moment but I know I just need to be a bit more patience and persistent. The next coyote will be tagged.
 
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