[Flesner06]

in reply to: Predators and A Hunter's Conscience #44630

I’ve seen evidence of female coyotes in heat luring male domestic dogs into the woods where they are attacked by other coyotes.
This seems to be what happened to a neighbors bird dog a few years ago. He witnessed the coyote “messing around and playing” with his dog which came up missing that evening.
We found it a week later in the timber behind his house. It had obviously been into a fight and killed.
Strange behavior for sure but the evidence points that way.

[Flesner06]

in reply to: Predators and A Hunter's Conscience #27175

They are hunted mercilessly here in WC Illinois in the winter time by groups with trucks and dogs. The farmers seem to like it but not many of those raise hogs outdoors anymore and the coyotes really don’t seem to bother calves (cattle). Most of the guys hunting them point out predation to small game and game birds as motivation. Maybe so, but developers, contractors, and farmers should also be hunted if we follow that logic! Besides, they eat more mice than anything, so unless your a trophy mouse hunter….?
Overpopulation in this area probably is a good reason to hunt them. I wouldn’t have belived there were really all that many judging from my sightings of them until two years ago. I ran into a trapper in the county I live in. He took two weeks vacation that winter to trap them. In those two weeks he trapped over 75 coyotes. almost all in this same county! That was an eye opener to me to think there were enough of them in the area to remove those numbers of animals and still not see any real impact.

[Flesner06]

in reply to: When The Compound Was Born… #46637

Unfortunatly I wasn’t far sighted enough to see the damage the wheel bow would do to hunting as I knew it. I tried one far a couple of years, back in the late 80’s.
There were two primary reasons I didn’t like it. It was not made for still hunting. That thing was like dragging around a handfull of tangled barb wire in the multi-floral jungles I was hunting, and it had no soul. Rarely did I want to practice with it, and I didn’t need to. Sight it in and it’s good for the next time.
Two seasons was enough fo rme. I went back to simpler, more romantic equipment. I’ll quit hunting before ever going back to wheels.

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