Bow Hunt Turned into a Critter Hunt

[Patocazador]

I spent a week hunting and doing chores at the hunt camp. However, I only saw 2 deer and didn't have a chance on either.

The game cameras showed two 2-y.o. bears at my feeder every evening and 2 black hogs at the same place every morning.
I sat the 1st night and the 2 bears showed up right on time. One was spooky as sin but the other acted naive. I hoped to spook them both to teach them a lesson.
The dopey one ran right up to the corn and started eating while the other hung back until he bolted right through the area and took off. The dope just looked at him as he passed and then went back to feeding. I then let out a growl and Dopey just looked up and started feeding again. Then I made a LOUD growl and barked twice. Same thing with Dopey. Finally, I stood up and threw a rock at it from 12 yards. That finally spooked Dopey away.

The next morning I brought a 20 gauge with 0 buckshot and the hogs showed up at 8:00 AM. They were spooky but I shot through some vines at the small boar and rolled him. He managed to get up and run off while the other just disappeared. I got down and followed the bloodless track into a hell hole swamp. I never could find him.

The next evening I wanted to kill a rabbit for dinner so I brought a .17 Rem. T/C Contender with. A coyote showed up at 35 yards so I popped her with the pistol. She just turned and ran into a thicket. I expected her to drop. The next morning I found her about 50 yds. away at the back edge of the thicket. No entrance nor exit hole was apparent and no blood.
She had worn and busted teeth and I hoped she was the alpha female.





I finished up my critter hunt with a young rabbit shot at 70 yards with a .22 magnum rifle.



I learned that a .17 caliber is insufficient for anything bigger than a house cat if you want it to drop it there.

 

[courtgreene]

If you spent time in the woods AND learned something, I say it was time well spent.

 

[starling]

Why shoot the coyote?

 

[Patocazador]

Why shoot the coyote?

Are you serious?
Please explain what good coyotes do? ...... I'm waiting.

 

[Highland Lofts]

They put trail cams on coyote dens in the spring when they have their pups..
A pair of coyotes will kill around thirty deer fawns every spring to feed their liter of pups.
In Kansas they had a trail cam on a coyote den and that pair of coyotes killed fourty-six deer fawns to feed their pups.

I love deer hunting so I kill coyotes when ever I can.

 

[starling]

They put trail cams on coyote dens in the spring when they have their pups..
A pair of coyotes will kill around thirty deer fawns every spring to feed their liter of pups.
In Kansas they had a trail cam on a coyote den and that pair of coyotes killed fourty-six deer fawns to feed their pups.

I love deer hunting so I kill coyotes when ever I can.

Understood. Thanks. I encounter packs of them while running late at night occasionally but they just take off. Didnt know they went after deer like that. Makes sense. I dont remember coyote problems back in my hunting days (teenage years) but that was a while ago (early 90s). Pretty rare to see many of them back then up in Michigan where I was at.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

^^^
Coyotes have expanded their range and numbers a lot since the 90's.

 

[starling]

well....

https://www.livescience.com/27976-coyotes.html

"Cougars, wolves, grizzly bears and black bears are known to kill coyotes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Golden eagles have been known to swoop down and take young coyotes. "

No real natural predators for populated areas that can work outside maybe golden eagles. Im far from a bird expert though so no idea on what that would take or how that would mess with everything else in the ecosystem. After reading up on this coyote problem it reminds me of the hog problem. I would probably be doing the same trying to get the numbers down around there.

 

[.308 Norma]

^^^
Coyotes have expanded their range and numbers a lot since the 90's.

I've also heard that "since the 90's, wolves have run the coyotes out of some of their used-to-be ranges. Don't know if it's true or not, but that's what I've heard.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I live in Washington State and we have a ship load of predators. Cougars, coyotes, both black bear and grizzly bears, a ship load of wolf packs, and bobcats.
They all prey upon deer and elk.
The Indian tribe and the state game department did a study on deer and elk survival rats.
They set up above clear cuts and had teams down below.
When a cow elk or a deer doe came in view they would catch the elk calf or deer fawn and get DNA samples and put a electronic transmitter on the calf or fawn.

The first year was 75% mortality rate from predators.
The second year was 50% mortality rate.

So in that area only 12 & 1/2 percent got to live to be two years old.
That's why there are no deer & elk left here in Washington State.

Look up the statistics.
Washington State has an average deer kill of 26,000

New York is smaller in square miles then Washington and their average deer kill is 220,000 deer.
No cougars or wolves.

Pennsylvania is smaller in square miles then New York and their average deer kill is 330,000 deer a year.
Again no cougars or wolves.

These tree huggers can shove their much loved predators up where the uin doesn't shine in personal opinion.
Like I posted before just one pair of coyotes with pups will kill a fawn a day in the spring to feed their pups. In Kansas they have verified trail cams where one pair of coyotes killed 46 deer fawns to feed their pups.

On another forum I am on a guy was bitshing about the over population of deer in his local farm land community.
Well part of the problem is they are liberals and
will not let people on their property to hunt deer legally.
Last year in that game management unit they shot 14 deer per square mile.
You think they have a deer management problem?
When I go back to Upstate New York next week I will be checking out places to hunt in that area..v