Coyotes during deer season

[wwbrown]

While bear hunting in Ontario this Fall (mid September) I passed up a wolf, season had just opened that day. The wolf walked by 10 feet in front of my blind and hunted the open area in front of me for about 10 minutes all the time within 50 yards. Why did I pass? I want to hang my first wolf on the wall so the fur needs to be good and it was far too early, did not want to queer the baited site for bears, and did not want to spend the hours sewing the holes my 375 Ruger would have made. On second thought the all copper 260 grain Hammer probably would not have expanded at all.

Having the wolf trot by at 10 feet was a treat as I have never been that close to a live wolf. I did not get a black bear but had an enjoyable season.

 

[Billy 30-06]

I don't let one walk while hunting deer and I don't save the hide either. My 30-06 ruins them so I just drag them off where I don't have to smell them.

 

[msalm]

1 minute into opening morning a coyote is in jeopardy if it walks by me. Only way I wouldn’t shoot one is if there was a deer I wanted to shoot in sight…and it’d have to be a pretty good deer.

 

[gat]

I ask my Dad 37 or 38 years ago if him shooting every yote he saw and leaving them lay didn't ruin our deer hunting in those areas, His reply " Deer rather smell a dead yote as a live one" .....lesson learned!

 

[AWS]

When I deer hunted in MN I'd go up a week early and put in a trap line while scouting my hunting area. Then when the season started I'd have places picked out for my wife to stand and I'd still hunt the trap line beaver, mink and rats would pay for the trip. Not many coyotes then and the wolves were protected.

 

[rockhound78]

Friend invited me to deer hunt in a spot he has taken deer for the last 10 years. Didn't see a single deer, but about 15 min. before sunset, coyotes started yipping. 3 groups, all within 3/8th of a mile, at 11, 1 and 3 o'clock.
Friend didn't think the coyotes had any impact on the deer. I told him I thought there probably weren't any deer there because of the coyotes.
If I would have seen one, in range, it would have been DRT

 

[drop_point]

On opening morning, I saw 5-7 coyotes passing through going north west to southeast. Twenty minutes later, mature buck chasing a doe came out from the east and literally crossed the same path coyotes had. I'm sure a dead coyote laying in that path or the sound of a gunshot would have done more to distract the deer.

 

[jmkasza]

There are so many coyotes where we deer hunt my hunting partners and I have agreed unless you're on the deer, shoot the coyote.

 

[1K6BRA]

Kill coyote or coyotes, get out of stand, take a quick picture, leave coyote laying there, get back in stand, kill buck that coyote tried to kill when it was a fawn, drag buck out of the woods, cook to liking and eat buck that coyote wishes he could be eating now! Done this scenario more than once here in western Pennsylvania and New York.

 

[rjtfroggy]

It is like peeing out of your stand. If you gotta do it, do it.

 

[Bocephus]

Illegal to kill a coyote or fox during gun season for deer in Illinois. Ask me how I know.

As if either of them needs the protection of the law!
Hell’n half of Georgia can’t make a dent in their numbers. Maybe Texas will ship them a few thousand pigs. Reports have it that Chi-Ka-Kee already has lots of hogs...

 

[1K6BRA]

Illegal to kill a coyote or fox during gun season for deer in Illinois. Ask me how I know.

 

[markT]

Buddy of mine said he a lot of coyotes on camera where he hunts deer. I told him how to feed em and hunt them. He has a thermal.
Talked with him Tuesday he said he took a bunch of bacon grease soaked sponges and scattered them out. I guess that’ll do it.