BigN
Member
I was talking to an avid coyote hunter at work yesterday and what he told me shocked me and I was disgusted beyond belief. I'm a coyote hunter, I use a gun and a treestand with an Alpha Dogg e-call. I have nothing against hunting whatsoever, I enjoy it. Apparently the new way to hunt coyotes here is to hang a gaff hook from a tree with a chicken impaled on it. The coyote jumps up and is impaled by the hook and just hangs there for a day or two or several, or until the hunter comes back to check. Has anyone heard of this? Seems to me to be unreasonably cruel. Picture this, perhaps for days the coyote is impaled on the hook, hanging there, whimpering in pain. I don't like this at all. I enjoy hunting animals but that still doesn't override the fact that I don't mistreat or torture them or make them suffer before death. I can't get over this. I'm hoping that this is just an isolated group of so called "hunters" that do this and not a national movement.