Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
When you stop and remember that the combined efforts of hunters, hunters in helicopters, traps, and "Game-getters" with 1080 poison couldn't eradicate coyotes in sheep-ranch country, I wouldn't worry too much about Ol' Wiley.
150 years back, he was mostly a "prairie wolf", seen mostly west of the Mississippi River and on to the Rocky Mountains. Nowadays, he's in all the lower 48 states.
You call in a coyote with a rabbit call and miss your shot, and you'll probably never get that coyote or his family to ever come close to that call, ever again. They're quick learners, and pretty good teachers of their young.
Any sort of halfway-fair hunting, and you can be as bloodthirsty as you want. You'll never do more than put a small dent in the population: Sooner or later, they'll get smarter about the game than you are.
, Art
150 years back, he was mostly a "prairie wolf", seen mostly west of the Mississippi River and on to the Rocky Mountains. Nowadays, he's in all the lower 48 states.
You call in a coyote with a rabbit call and miss your shot, and you'll probably never get that coyote or his family to ever come close to that call, ever again. They're quick learners, and pretty good teachers of their young.
Any sort of halfway-fair hunting, and you can be as bloodthirsty as you want. You'll never do more than put a small dent in the population: Sooner or later, they'll get smarter about the game than you are.
, Art
