There is a good coyote show on TV right now

Cool, early today I think from 3:00-4:00 or 3:30-4:00 there was a cool documentry about coyotes on Discovery channel. It was produced by Canada Geographic. It talked about the large coyotes we have here in ontario /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif , the nuisance coyotes in BC, and rare black and yellow, and orange coloured coyotes and where they occur. It was actually very interesting. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Tommy, who said coyotes are not pack animals? That just proves how much (they think) they know about coyotes. Maybe they were using the term pack animal as in a mule lol, in that case...NO coyotes are not pack animals. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Wow Tom thats real cool, I didn't know there were any other predator hunters in the area. I am just getting into it and plan to get a predator gun this spring. have a cottage near Aylmer, it's about 20minutes west of port stanly, near Iona and Wallace town.

The show is really cool I liked seeing the pelts of the black and white, and the orange yotes they were cool.

I had a yote livin under my cottage this winter, so I think there is few around, at my aunts farm they kill 'bout 40 a year!

Anyways I don't know if you would be interested but we should get together some time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
HunterTay we definately got to get out. I know that area around Iona and can get some permision too hopefilly. Last winter I got a call to go out there and howled three out to the John Wise line south of Middlemarch. A car came by and they ran back a ditch line and wouldn't come out. I was on the other side of the road from them. If you don't have a rifle don't worry I got lots /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif . A lot of the guys around there do walking drives and just about everybody is related but I'm sure we can get on some of them. later neigbour. td
 
Cool Tom, I didn't mention this early, hope you don't mind I'm only 16, if you don't want to get togather any more I understand. And I can't go hunting 'til next year cause I'm not taking my hunters safety course and firearms course 'til winter (it's my christmas present! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I'm really excited to go hunting, no one in my family does so I'm not to experienced except what I've read). If you still want to do something sometime after new years my e-mail is tayjaykay@hotmail.com . Hope to hear from ya,
neighbour.
 
Hey HT didn't you know the youngest hunter has to do the dragging and the skinning /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif . You get the paper work together and away we go. When I was your age the Old Timmers in our neibourhood took me night hunting for coons. Those are some of my fondest memories. td
 
Wow thanks a lot Tom /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif . I plan to have all my licenses, my outdoors card, and all that stuff in order by spring. Lookin forwards to it. Anyways speaking of coon hunting at night, I plan to get my license for that, and I recently purchased a new dog, (now 4 months old) i plan to try and train her as a coon dog, she is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, I know she ain't a hound but I'll try it.
 
Danny if I remember correctly, it was from this board. Id have to go back and do a search to make sure but I was led to believe that coyotes are solitary animals until the breeding season (mid-Jan to early Feb) when they "paired" up and the female denned and the male hung around but wasnt alowed into the den. But definitly heard that they were nothing like wolves who have an actual hierarchy, alpha, omega, etc..

Ill do a search and find the culprit. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
From what I've learned I was pretty sure that coyotes were pack animals, I don't know who told you otherwise but I think you have been misinformed.
 
Heres the culprit.

From KANSAS WILDLIFE:

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Coyotes are thought to be territorial and
apparently maintain their territories by scentmarkingand (rarely) by actual fighting.

Radio tracking studies have given us information on
coyote territoriality that was never obtainable
before. Our knowledge in this area remains
scanty, however, the ongoing studies should
provide us with even more information.

Beginning about November many of the
young coyotes disperse, seeking territories of
their own. This dispersal movement may be in
any direction and the young coyote may end up
as much as 100 miles or more from the den
where it was born. The average distance moved
is from 10 to 25 miles, but movements of 40 to
50 miles are not uncommon. Once dispersal
has taken place, the coyote establishes a home
range where it will probably remain for the rest
of its life. Dispersal apparently takes place
primarily among young coyotes in their first
year of life.

Coyotes are basically solitary animals and
are usually found either alone or in pairs.
Although groups of coyotes are sometimes
seen, they are not true packs like those of
wolves. Wolf packs are characterized by a high
degree of social structure, organization and
cooperation, particularly in hunting activities.
Groups of coyotes may be found together in a
variety of circumstances, but there is not the
same degree of organization or cooperation.
Click to expand...
Sorry Robb/Scottsdale/AZ. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
The above statement is fact. Coyotes are not "true" pack animals. They frequently hunt alone, and do not remain together as a group. Wolves, on the other hand, form true packs and do not have annual dispersal. Their groups have a structure that hunts together, defends territory as a group, and remains together for years at a time. Coyotes have some of these same characteristics, but not as an ongoing social trait.
 
Oh, alright. Sorry guys my bad. In the winter at my cottage we often see tracks or hear large groups of them, but like you said this isn't a true pack, they do this just cause food is short I think.

Anyways, Tom if you wouldn't mind e-mailing me your e-mail so we can get in contact later on I would much appreciate it, my email is tayjaykay@hotmail.com . oh ya and today when i got home from school I phoned the MNR office in Aylmer and they gave me the numbers of 4 guys who teach the "one stop" gun and hunt course in London. I plan to take the course after right after Christmas or ASAP.
 
Last night I signed up to take the "One Stop" course, it is my hunter safety and gun safety course combined. I'm taking it in London. It was $205 and I take it in Febuary. The course is 2 weeks long. I am excited out of my mind! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif , all I have been doing the last while is reading about licenses and limits, and looking at guns to get /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif . I think I'll get a Tikka T3 Lite Stainless in .223 and a Marlin model 60 (if it's legal, I hope so) to start off, and some time down the road maybe a Remington model 870 express super magnum. Anyways once I pass the courses and get my outdoors card I plan to get a small game license and a raccoon at night license. I'm still not clear on some of the furbearer regs. though? Anyways sorry to ramble, just really excited /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
HT sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I've done a puter crash and also have been working long hours and HUNTING . Any way you just missed a course at our club here in Aylmer last weekend. These guys put on a course at our range in a nice log cabin and are good old redneck boys and friends of mine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif . They might put on another course in November if there are enough participants. Our EESA range puts on a huge youth program both for rifle and archery. We are one of the top junior shooting teams in Canada and have been for forty years. I'm sure that more records are held by our members than any other club in the nation (yes I am one of the coaches /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) WE start rifle in January and go through May every Friday night. Saftey as well as striving for acuracy is our theme. YOU ARE INVITED! There are plenty of other kids your age that come out regularily and some come out from London (girls too /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) Rifles are supplied by us so you don't have to run out and spend a heap of money to get started. Mom and Dads can sit on the couch by a fireplace and watch inside the range or go over to the cabin and canteen and sit by the fireplace there too. Much is learned about saftey, handling, shooting form and how to have fun in a program designed to build skills at the sport and at life and it's experiences. We often have more than fifty youth out for the night. Outside we have two 100yd ranges and a 400yd range. A great place to get some experience and make some friends. td
 
Really, that sounds awsome! I don't take my gun and hunting courses until Feb but once I take them (and pass /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) I would love to go /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif .
 


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