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Started by Reddog, January 15, 2011, 09:32:40 AM

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Reddog

I got permission after deer hunting to do some predator control. During deer season I had noticed the yotes where traveling and bedding in both of the swamps on the property.

I picked a very calm snowy mid morning to go out and see what I could pull out of the front swamp. I was on the down wind side of the front swamp. Set up the critter and ecall, got set in a portable blind and started the ecall. After a few minutes started with some distress calls on an open reed, continuing on for around 30 minutes. Then shut every thing off and waited for a 10 or so minutes, nothing. Oh well that is hunting.

Packed up my stuff in the sled and then covered it with a white camo cloth and took the 243 for a little walk down wind to see what might show in the fresh snow. Just a 100yrds over the hill where fresh tracks coming in behind me from way across an open field. They milled around there for while from the looks but then headed back down wind. Walked to the back of the property and watched a dozen or so deer milling around in the pines. Seeing where the yotes had come from helped understand where they are now bedding. I will give it a week and then set up knowing the changes.
It was a wonderful day out. :)

Chris Burchfield

Last year I'd gone deer hunting out there before day light.  It was 9°F.  Nothing was moving, not fur, feathers or wind.  After a couple of hours my feet were getting cold and I'd started the shakes.  Folded and shouldered the blind, picked up the rifle turning around and looking before I walked.  There came a Yote, broad side to me.  Scoped on the trot and dropped him DRT.  Yotes and bobcat are why I don't see cotton tails anymore.
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SwampDonkey

I saw lots of bunny sign, and one in the flesh, and lots of coyote tracts on the woodlot. I need the coyotes to keep them in check. ;D Looked like a barnyard of bunny trails. No deer sign around, we don't have hardly any maybe 3 or 4 in a wide area. We never had high numbers in my area.
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Reddog

The only place we see rabbit tracks is around the house and buildings.

SwampDonkey

I used to get one or two behind the house. They have to travel across wide open fields for acres to get there though. Grouse to, they used to fly in for apples and cranberries.
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Autocar

One rabbit at my bird feeder but plenty of coyote tracks in the woods. D.N.R. keep selling doe permitts we won't have any deer eather.
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Larry

When I got out of the service in '72 I got a job, but it didn't pay much.  To supplement I shot and trapped critters in mid Missouri.  Think it must of been spring of '73 I sold some yote hides that brought $50 each.  They were so big the buyer called em Colorado wolves.

Wonder what a hide sells for now...50 cents?
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Reddog

Find the right buyer around here and they still can bring 25. In the round 5 if you are lucky.

SwampDonkey

A neighbor had a nuisance dog that was always running. That included running in the woods chasing game, which is against the law. Mom's uncle was a trapper and he had a little trap line not far from his house, it was on his own and his cousin's land completely legit. Well, the dog got in the trap and it was a lethal trap. So uncle looked it over and figured it looked a lot like a wolf. He skinned and stretched it and and sold it on the fur trade. The buyers figured it was a timber wolf. The neighbor had been looking for his lost dog and asked uncle if he'd seen it, because he said the dog never leaves home. Uncle said he never seen his dog if it never leaves home. ;) This was probably 30 years ago and worth $200 or more. Beaver at the time, blanket sized, where worth $250 or more.
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Chuck White

I inquired about yote furs about a week ago.  Not good!

The guy told me $10.00 skinned and stretched.

I told him they would find a ditch first!

I personally would not skin one for less than $25.00.

BUT, We hunt them anyway, sale or no sale! Good exercise and fun too!
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doctorb

We had coyotes move into our county a few years  ago.  Don't remember having them before.  Now, they're gone.  No one has seen, or heard one in a year or more.

While some of my neighbors hunted them, i heard that that can backfire on you with regard to the coyote population.  I was told that, in any given coyote family or group, only the alpha male and the alpha female bear young.  Even if their offspring are sexually mature, they will not mate as long as they are part of that family group.  If the alpha female is killed, then all heck breaks loose, with coyote pups everywhere. 

I was told that this is one of this species' ways of extending its range, as young adults get tired of this "restriction", and strike out on their own.

Is this true?  Can you rid your area of coyotes by hunting or are they just too prolific?

Doctorb
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SwampDonkey

The DNR here says that it's adds to the problem by placing a bounty on them. Where I am located I like the balance just fine. There never was a lot of deer where I live. It hasn't got a lot of the winter cover except cedar stands, and those stands are not continuous. Hardwood in winter deep snow and severe cold will not support deer up here. They have to yard up in good wintering ground where they can conserve energy while seeking food with the least effort.
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Reddog

Doc,
I only know of one guy that could rid an area of yotes and that was with traps. As soon as he pulled out, others would move into the area from outside. If they have good a good food supply they are very prolific.

I have never heard what you where told about the alpha dogs. It is a constant battle in the packs for alpha status and they will kill or run off others over it. Hence the old saying Dog eat Dog world.

Donk, What do they mean by adds to the problem?

SwampDonkey

http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/wildlife/conserva/eastern-coyote.asp

"an eradication program might double their usual 4-year life expectancy (coyotes have been known to live for 19 years in captivity). It has been estimated that in order to overcome this built-in survival mechanism, an eradication program would have to kill over 75% of the coyote population every year for 50 years. In fact, a control program may even increase livestock predation by stimulating females to have larger litters, thus increasing the demand for food during the spring and summer when livestock are most vulnerable.

Despite extensive eradication attempts throughout North America - shooting and chasing with everything from snowmobiles to helicopters, and extensive poisoning campaigns - coyotes have not only held their own but have expanded their range. In Nova Scotia, as elsewhere, coyote populations will be controlled by the amount of available habitat.

Typically, a coyote pair (they often mate for life) will claim and defend a territory of about 50 km2 (20 mi2) in which to hunt and raise their young. This territory will be used by only the one mated pair, but typically it will also support 3-6 young-of-the-year as well as 2 or 3 transients. When the coyote population increases beyond the environment's ability to support it, parasites and density-dependent diseases such as mange and distemper will naturally prune their numbers. colonizing populations may overshoot this carrying capacity for a short time before these natural controls take over."

And Gerry Parker has written an excellent book on our eastern coyotes. He is a research scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service. Our coyotes are bigger here in the northeast. Also, we have not had them here until the late 50's.

Member Coon in Sask. has been hunting them on bounty and I think he'll tell ya they are just as prolific as ever.
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Reddog

Interesting thanks for the link, don't agree at this point but interesting. :)

SwampDonkey

All I know is you guys didn't kill off enough of them out there, because we got them now. It's all your fault. :D :D :D

Ask anyone who have seen ours from outside of the NE and they'll tell ya they are different critters. But, maybe you agree on that part. Just saying. ;) Personally I never saw my first coyote until the early 80's as family members where trappers all there adult life. ;) One young feller I knew, about 15 at the time caught quite few in snares in the early eighties and everyone was saying they were causing the deer decline at the time. We were also loosing deer wintering ground due to harvesting, which later became the explanation for deer decline.

Up on my woodlot there was a guy with snares the last few years around near my place and he never caught any and I know there where from 3 to 5 on my place routinely. I could find where a group followed behind one another on fresh snow. Plus their meet and greet howls and yips once in a while. It's funny I only see one at a time though, in the flesh. There's lots of tracks up there now after the hares. I've got too many of them hares.
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Ron Scott

True Story:

The  Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature
trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the
Governor.

   1.  The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie
"Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only
doing what is natural.

   2.  He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote
and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating
it.

   3.  He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and
bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.

   4.  The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked
for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.

   5.  The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game
conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of
dangerous animals.

   6.  The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a
"coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.

   7.  The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better
treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the
world.

   8.  The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the
attack. The State spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with
additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.

   9. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit
against the State.

Montana :

   The Governor of Montana is jogging with his dog along a nature
trail. A Coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.

   1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and
keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP  hollow point
cartridge.

   2. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.

   And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Montana is not.








~Ron

SwampDonkey

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spencerhenry

i too have heard that the more coyotes you kill that the more you will have. personally i think it could be true, in fact i wish it were then i would  have more coyotes to call and shoot.
last year i got 39 confirmed kills and a couple of others that i am certain died but could not find, or ran across a fence. this year i am at only 16 so far. i have had road kill deer carcasses out for 6 weeks now and have not seen one dog on the bait yet, i got one picture of one at 3:00 am about 2 weeks ago. right now all i have is one fox that is a regular and bald eagles and golden eagles. i hunt the same areas over and over, there are not as many dogs in any of the areas that i hunt this year. last year i would see up to 5 at a time out in a pasture this year only 2 and not very often.

beenthere

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I too have heard that the more coyotes you kill that the more you will have.

I think a lot of this rhetoric comes from those who are anti-hunting and anti-bounty hunting.

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doctorb

beenthere-

You may be right, but you don't see a lot of groups taking up for this animal.  It's no polar bear, wolf, or grizzly!  I know that some are just anti-hunting, but the biology of this species is unusual.  I may try to look for more in depth info.  Maybe I should read the book that Swamp suggested.
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SwampDonkey

I don't think it's anti-hunting or anti-bounty at all. I believe the ones studying the animals have to find a balance out there. We don't have big lobby for save the coyote foundations in these parts. Nobody with a gun hardly ever bother with them and we have a varmet license for coyote.
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Reddog

I know a few Biologist's and have never had one tell me the way to less canine predators was to not hunt or trap them.
The thing is just like spencerhenry, you can never let up or they rebound and move in from other areas very quickly.

SwampDonkey

Trouble with coyotes is they are opportunists. If wild prey decline, then they could be in the sheep heard or the chicken coop, or the garbage dump. Shooting them knocks them back, but if there food source is around and you let up, they return. That's the trouble with bounties, once the bounty period is over, back they come. The food is still there. Something I think anyone can agree with. How many do the average hunter shoot? I think it's pretty low because it has not stopped the coyotes. Look at the wolf, we have wipe them out of this region about 150 years ago. And they ain't likely to come back. ;)
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Reddog

Quote from: SwampDonkey on January 18, 2011, 04:02:06 PM
Look at the wolf, we have wipe them out of this region about 150 years ago. And they ain't likely to come back. ;)

What makes you say that?

SwampDonkey

Well, unless someone can resurrect them from the grave. ;D But 'ain't likely' is one of them loose terms. Means it's also remotely possible. ;) Probably won't make it across the St Lawrence or Bay of Chaleur. Maybe from Michigan across to Northern NY and New England and southern Que. ;)
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Jeff

All you need is some wolf lovers to start a movement to reintroduce wolves to your area.
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beenthere

Yep, like Jeff says.
We had 'em do exactly that in WI and now the fight is on to get a wolf season on them because there are too DanG many. But there are those that say "it won't do any good to shoot them, as they will just fill in the voids with more and more pups".  Have heard that argument too many times. It is from the DNR infiltrators that border on the PETA desires. PITA IMO :)

And we used to have a coyote bounty, but the do-gooders managed to get all bounties in the State against the State law. Now when we need a bounty to encourage the taking of some animals, it is against the law. Instead, the State hires sharpshooters at about $600 a pop to take out the nuisance animals. Go figure.

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Reddog

Quote from: SwampDonkey on January 18, 2011, 04:38:23 PM
Probably won't make it across the St Lawrence or Bay of Chaleur. Maybe from Michigan across to Northern NY and New England and southern Que. ;)


Well they are in Ontario and Quebec now, so a pretty short travel and you may have them again.

SwampDonkey

It's not going to happen, at least as long as I'm living. We have some sensible people in DNR, even though some of them may not be at the top of their game. But, there is no one, unless under the cover of darkness and without anyone knowing about it, that is going to be allowed to introduce a wolf into the NB wild. But not only that, we don't have a lot of provincial biologists in the department. Don't have the resources and usually one of the smallest budgets. Maybe two if we are lucky and he's usually at odds with Timber Management Branch over deer yards and cavity trees.  In New Brunswick, wildlife management has always been spelled Deer. That's why we have Deer Wintering Areas and in recent years a lot of those areas were harvested because the winter habitat crashed. Which was inevitable since the woods is dynamic not static, you can't simply draw a polygon on a map and expect it to remain unchanged on the ground. ;) Maine tried to re-introduce woodland caribou (twice) because someone apparently didn't know why they died out before. That failed miserably.
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Jeff

Well, maybe we can take up a collection for ya. :)
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SwampDonkey

Quote from: Reddog on January 18, 2011, 05:12:23 PM

Well they are in Ontario and Quebec now, so a pretty short travel and you may have them again.

Always have been, but on the north shore of the St Lawrence in both provinces. And Quebec government allows them to be hunted and trapped pretty hard. ;)
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SwampDonkey

Quote from: Jeff on January 18, 2011, 05:28:44 PM
Well, maybe we can take up a collection for ya. :)

Coyotes and foxes are enough to suit me. :D
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Burlkraft

I thought this thread was about cats   ;D ;D ;D
Why not just 1 pain free day?

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Reddog

Quote from: Burlkraft on January 18, 2011, 07:13:39 PM
I thought this thread was about cats   ;D ;D ;D
pull_smiley Back to your Go Bears thread.  ;D

Burlkraft

Quote from: Reddog on January 18, 2011, 07:28:18 PM
Quote from: Burlkraft on January 18, 2011, 07:13:39 PM
I thought this thread was about cats   ;D ;D ;D
pull_smiley Back to your Go Bears thread.  ;D

:D :D :D  That was a good 'un eh Wally?
Why not just 1 pain free day?

doctorb

I have tried to delve into the reproduction of the coyote family "pack", and while many sources don't talk much about it, those that do say that the size of a coyote litter is directly related to the available food supply and the size of the family.  While non-dominant adults can "attempt reproduction", most literature describes these pregnancies as very unlikely to be sucessfull.  I presume that means that if the alphas don't want your kids around, they ain't gonna be around!  Litter size can be from a low of 3 to a high of 12.

The sources I checked did not relate population growth or decrease to hunting or killing of the alpha female.  I have to look further to see if that specific issue, as it relates to coyote population size, has been scientifically studied.  As I heard this addressed from several people in my area, they either were listening to each other or there's some source that is stating that such hunting may increase their numbers.
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SwampDonkey

Everyone has there little prejudices. :D :D :D ;D
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SwampDonkey

Doc, the western coyote at least, is known as the prairie jackal. I saw a documentary one time of the silver back jackal in Africa. It showed the dominant male and female bearing the young and some older siblings helping to raise the young. It was a decent show,and I taped it on audio. This was 25 years ago. They were not normally prey to other predators and they scavenged for less than 10 % of their food. Small rodents and young gazelle were some of their prey. It was some type of rat that was the most sought after. This one family of jackals they followed for a long time, several generations back in the 1970's. An unknown disease had claimed them in the end, all the jackals being studied for 7 years.

Here an excerpt of the same Dr and her jackals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtrpX8BXv8
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clww

We've had the coyotes start moving into the western part of VA starting about 5 years ago now. 2 years ago when I was camped out for my deer season, about 11 pm one night, a pack of them had all gathered down in the valley, no more than a mile away. They started barking and howling, making a huge ruckus. Made the hair on my neck stand up. Sounded like something in a B-Grade horror flick.
Fast forward to this past deer season. I was up my stand at about 30 feet in the air and saw some movement about a quarter mile away in a clear cut. Kept watching it for about 10 minutes, just getting a glimpse every now and then as it got closer. At about 300 yards this turned into a coyote, big one, too. She sat down and barked a few times, with her head tilted back. Last thing she ever did! Took her to my taxidermist the next day. She weighed 37 pounds, which he said was a big coyote. Beautiful coat and will make a great mount. I've hunted all over the continent for the past 25 years and this was the first one for me.
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SwampDonkey

clww, did you see many yotes in other parts of the country? I usually see more single foxes in a year here. But, the yotes are always present, they have learned to stay out of view. If you see one even 1/2 mile away he heads for the bush. A couple winters ago I was heading down to the shop and about 3/4 mile away was one sitting on the farm road howling. He sat there I bet 30 minutes howling. I actually like the sound of'm myself. I have no desire to be attacked by one though. He'd probably spit this tough raw hide out. ;D One night in the summer a couple years ago I hear this yipping in the drive way, not far from an open window. Went on for a awhile and I said to myself I gotta get up and settle this argument. I went out and it was a fox barking back at 2 or 3 yotes about 1/2 mile away down in the woods. One morning that darn fox was cornering a cat in the lilacs. She's rough country up here, you could get ate up. :D :D
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SwampDonkey

Here's one of the yotes I've seen on the woodlot.

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clww

I've seen many of them out west and up in Canada. I usually am hunting with a bow and they never get within my 50 yard limit.
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chain

I've watched so many 'yotes, I know where these locally travel as from their bedding area to their hunting ground. If you can locate a crossing; for instance, two timber trails intersecting, many times they will leave their droppings or urine post to mark their territory. But there are good attractants such as 'yote glandular lure that may pull in a shy 'ol 'yote in close. I reccommend a lure made by 'Sullivan's' called "coyote con", a long range lure with staying power. But there are a number of good lures out there, patience is the key.

Kansas

When I was in high school, there were lots of coyotes in the area. Lots of hunting for them. Then the mange hit. That pretty well wiped them all out. Now they are finally back. I love listening to them. Watched a family of them off and on all summer trotting by my window. It was fun watching the pups try to keep up in the tall grass.

VT_Forestry

Here's one that Mom got a picture of in the yard...looks like a German Shepard to me  :D



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clww

Was that one in Newport News?
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SwampDonkey

VT can answer for himself, but I think his folks are in Blacksburgh area.
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Wrangler55

Here's my only coyote photo... This one was laying out in my hayfield. He let me set up my rifle, get my camera out, line up the photo, and load my rifle... He was just a little too curious for his own good.

I'm so covered with sawdust, my nickname should be dusty...

Huntress

Quote from: Chuck White on January 17, 2011, 08:41:37 AM
I inquired about yote furs about a week ago.  Not good!

The guy told me $10.00 skinned and stretched.

I told him they would find a ditch first!

I personally would not skin one for less than $25.00.

BUT, We hunt them anyway, sale or no sale! Good exercise and fun too!

I just checked the results of the last NAFA sale and the prices are up a little.
All USD
Western/Heavy-ave. $51.21 top $76.00
Eastern-ave. $26.15 top $47.00
Semi Heavy-ave. $22.42 top $48.00

If you know that you will be doing a lot of coyote hunting you might want to check with some of the taxidermists in the area...they may be looking for some to mount and would probably buy them in the carcass. A black yote like VT_Forestry posted could bring you $75-$150+.

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iffy

I read an article that said coyotes populations will always adapt to habitat. The biggest thing influencing the population is the rabbit population cycle. If outside influences such as heavy hunting, trapping or natural disaster reduces the population very far below optimum, the coyotes will compensate by having larger litters, and in some documented cases, 2 litters a year.

Heard a story once about a town meeting in one of the western states, specifically sheep country, where the coyote population was severely decimating the sheep herds. They had a lot of ranchers at the meeting, some fish and game people, biologists, news hounds, and peta. While discussing various ways of reducing the coyote population, a sweet young lady from peta stood up and asked "why can't we just neuter all the male coyotes?". A grizzled old rancher in the back stood up and said "honey, they ain't s----ing our sheep, they're eatin' them!"

SwampDonkey

The old timers around here that had sheep told me it was bears that took the sheep. Then there were bear bounties. But that was times before the war and we never had yotes that far back here in NB. Yotes will eat about anything good to eat, whatever it can get, make no mistake. Not much for sheep farming around these parts now. When you go down to the woolen mill, there is hardly a cow let alone any chance to see a sheep. ;) I must say though the neighbors had a half dozen or so for a couple years. They even had a pet silver fox. :D
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Burlkraft

There are quite a few yotes in Madison.
There is lots and lots of green space in and around the city.
There have been deer seen on the capitol square.
Lots of suburbanites have lost little dogs and kats to yotes.
A few years ago they hired "Professional Hunters" to decrease the deer population in the city ;D

What a joke that was  :D  :D  :D  :D laugh_at laugh_at laugh_at
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nas

Had a big yote hanging around my place the last month or so.  I would see him at least a couple times a week.  Last week I was working on the mill and saw him sitting about 100yds behind the barn.  I got on the snowmobile and gave chase.  I was about 15-20ft behind him when he cut left, and I couldn't make the turn at 60+mph >:(  Haven't seen him since ;D

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I just had a birthday on the 26th and my wife got me a FoxPro game call for a gift.

I think I'll be trying it out at my first opportunity.

We have coyotes come within easy shooting distance from the house, but usually they travel at night.

I think if I put the caller out around 100 yards from the house, I could likely get one to come in.
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SwampDonkey

Quote from: nas on January 28, 2011, 08:10:47 AM
I got on the snowmobile and gave chase.  I was about 15-20ft behind him when he cut left, and I couldn't make the turn at 60+mph >:(  Haven't seen him since ;D

Nick

My father tried that 30 years ago, giving chase to a fox in the field. The fox was too smart and father ended up rolling the ski do. ;D
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Just Me

 I grew up chasing coyotes or bob cat in the 60's-70's with dogs. There was a bounty back then, and the hides were worth something, so it paid its own way. I have a 243 with a coyote bite in the stock from when I got too close one day. They removed the bounty, and the hide prices dropped in relationship to the cost of dog food and fuel, so everyone mostly stopped around here.

Now there are coyotes everywhere. It was back then that if a coyote crossed a road they would urinate all the way across the road, we assumed because of fear of man. You never just saw a coyote, they were invisible. Now, over the last 20-30 years their habits have totally changed. They do not have any fear, they are often in town, something that just never happened back in the day. I have a house in town and there is a 5 acre woodlot across the street from me that has a fox family living in it, would not have happened back when the bounty and fur prices were up.

This was a much better place to small game hunt back then as well. It is rare to even see a rabbit track any more, and partridge hunting is pretty much just a nice walk in the woods these days.

As far as them moving around, they will cover some ground if they need to. We chased them across the Straits of Mackinaw more than once, a 5-10 mile run depending on the path they took. This is why there will be wolves in the lower peninsula if there is not already, the big lake freezes up at some point most winters in the straits.

I would suppose that the St. Laurance would not be that much of a problem for them as they seem to have no fear of man at this point. There are some fairly remote crossings that they could easily get across, one I crossed to get out of Quebec comes to mind.

Don't know if it is good or bad, but there are a lot more now. I am building on the edge of the Pigeon River Forest and I do know I do not want to see wolves in my  own back yard. The elk in the garden will be problem enough.....

Ron Scott

DEER PREDATION STUDY IN MENOMINEE COUNTY

Published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [ http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/115154119.html]. 

Coyotes #1.  Bobcats #2.  Preliminary results of a longer-term study started in 2009. 

~Ron

Reddog

Ron that is an interesting study. Always fun to read what is being tracked.


Edit: the post was pulled that I am referring to here. But I will leave my comment it for future reference.

Don't make me call for cleanup on this thread!  >:(

I didn't start this to have it turned into a political rant!




Troublermaker

This happen about 7 or 8 miles from me. Been here all my life and this is the first time I ever heard anything like this was this year. In fact I never even seen a real coyote. We done had some wild dogs from time to time that people have drop to pack up and kill some people sheep's but never coyote. They have just show up lately.

Gloucester supervisors hear about coyote attacks

http://www.dailypress.com/news/gloucester-county/dp-nws-gloucester-coyotes-20110201,0,6201885.story

Just Me

 Interesting article. They are adapting to our increasingly urban world. I like how the politicians will discuss it at their meeting in two weeks, meanwhile.........

I'm not buying the bounty does not do anything BS.  It sounds to me like something the WWF came up with and has spread around. They sure have proliferated around here since the bounty was dropped and their habits have drastically changed as I have said before.

Twelve cows is a lot of money, and it is directly out of the profit. Has to sting if it is just a small farmer. Hope he has insurance for that.

SwampDonkey

It's not so much that the bounty doesn't have an impact, it's the fact that when the bounty ends they rebound. Also, if the pelts have not much value then there are far less participants to. And when your government, as in Canada, is scared to death of guns there are far less hunters to take care of business because your gun becomes a target of tax collection to create anther government welfare job. Not every place is influenced by the WWF so much as scientific study. As far as Canada is concerned WWF ranks us at the bottom of the G8 and most people don't care (0.5 % support). Blaming some of these organizations often becomes a convenient "I told you so" even if they have little influence in the matter. ;)
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Norm

I see they are using that same tired line that the more you shot the more you get. BS, I can tell you that aggressive hunting especially with greyhounds puts a dent in the population. Of course she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about nor do the college DNR boys. 

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