I have been hunting for 64 years and I always try to make clean kills on all game animals. A coyote is not a game animal , it is a predator I don't mind wounding them at all. If the neighbors call the law over a yelping coyote I think our local law enforcement would just ignore them and if they didn't they would have one hell of a time proving it was me.
Thank you.
Wayne
What a great way to go about life ! You sir are the type that give hunters a bad name ! Sure...a coyote is a predator as you say. But I always thought they deserve that clean one shot humane kill just like that trophy buck gets. Not in your world though! I done trying convince you of anything ! Blast away !!
Welp, I guess my earlier comment fell upon deaf ears. No worries.
Coyotes are predators which, when they become too numerous, WILL take a small child given the opportunity. Most "SPORTSMEN" do not have a clue what they will do to a calf or foal as it is being delivered. Truth is MOST "SPORTSMEN" aren't nearly as sporting as they claim to be. Do they take make their own primitive bow, knap their own arrow heads and then learn all the woodcraft necessary to make that kill on a fine buck at the kind of ranges that that tackle offers? No they don't. They get out their .270 or their .308, climb up into their $1000.00 factory build blind that is 15 feet above average terrain and bust that buck from a hundred and fifty yards while he is mounting a doe. But they are "SPORTSMEN" and they will look down their nose at you if you are not just exactly the same sort of "SPORTSMAN" they are.
In my misspent youth I hunted a hell of a lot of groundhogs with .22 long rifle. One day a "SPORTSMAN" and I were out removing the whistle pigs from farmer John's pasture. The "SPORTSMAN" was on a hill overlooking a 40 acre field with his .22-250 Remington 700 BDL on sand bags. I was walking the pasture. As I rounded the hill I saw one out there about hundred and something yards. Too far to take the shot. I laid down and took it anyway. My little 10/22 barked and the shot was low. Next shot was a bit high. Groundhog just sitting there looking sort of confused. Third shot hit him on the bridge of his nose and he pitched forward outside his hole stone dead. The bullet bounced off. I proved it when I did the post-mortem. My "SPORTSMAN" buddy got upset with me because I "machine gunned" that ground hog. Apparently only a "SPORTSMAN" with his kind of equipment should be hunting groundhogs. But then I, with my lowly .22, took the ground hog he was about to shoot, so ... Mind you, you can EAT those. Most "SPORTSMEN" don't. There is one in my yard now. If I kill it. After telling this story, I will have to eat it. Hypocrisy is something just chaps my arse.
Most "SPORTSMEN" will eat that deer they "excuted" humanely at two hundred paces from their $1000.00 blind. Most "SPORTSMEN" won't eat a coyote. I sure won't. Are the few who would somehow BETTER than the rest of us? Probably not.
When I was a boy, the coyotes were nearly run out of our part of Oklahoma by farmers putting out Cyanide traps. It was just a little blow tube with some bait on it and a contraption that blew the cyanide into the pups face when he took the bait. I wonder how many doggies wandered off to die slowly from that poison. Sometimes removing pests and predators is more about expedience than being "SPORTING". Maybe we need to remember that?
Seriously though, here we are in the middle of what is going to kill a hundred thousand or easily more than that of us ...
AND THIS???? Grow up gentlemen.
