Amish predator control

timb

timb

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I was at a quarterly board meeting yesterday in Garnett, KS. Garnett is located in East Central Kansas.

One of the guys on the board with me knew my passion for coyote hunting and told me that the Amish community got together in that area and went on a coyote drive in January. He said that the coyote population in that area was really up this past season.

He indicated to me that the Amish covered 9 sqare miles, (not sure whether it was all at once). They had beaters walking the fields, and shotgunners either walking with them or placed strategically along the way.

I am not going to say how many coyotes he said were shot, as it was a tremendous amount, without me verifying it. At any rate, if the amount killed were 1/3 of what he said, it would be a big number based on the land covered.

I thought this was an interesting way of predator control. I think that the Russians use this method when hunting wolves, also.

Thought you all might be interested!

Best Regards,
Tim
 
When my father-in-law (who's not Amish) was twelve or so ....... (He's eighty one now) he partook in one such drive in Nebraska.

The real excitement comes RIGHT AT THE END!

Here was this twelve year old .... green to such festivities and green to TWELVE gauge Winchesters ....... and the last coyote standing charges right for him!

.............. BOOM!

He got lots of KUDOS from the other participants and TO THIS DAY ........ loves to re-tell that story.

My hat's off to the Amish ..... I did not know they would raise a hand to any of God's creatures ..... but I admire their "spunk" on this one!!

Three 44s
 
They do that once a year in an area not far from me.But it's not that organized.Anyone that has a gun can go.A bunch of idiots load up in trucks and livestock trailers and go to a bunch different tracts of property.Alot of times they just surround the property and start closeing in to the middle.Then shoot anything that moves.Then it has so mant holes in it noone knows who has rights to it.(there is ussually nothein left anyway).then they get into fights trying to claim it.Plus alot of them drink between drives.I've got friends that have went once and after the first drive, said they would never go again.I get asked to go every year and quickly decline.This goes on in a pretty redneck area.I don't think there is a truck around there that does'nt have a REDNECK sticker somewhere on it.

Disclaimer- I don't have a problem with,nor am I making fun of people with REDNECK stickers on their vehicles.I'm just making an example of what is in the area.The people personally may not be "idiots" but what they are diong is idiotic.

I felt the need for that 'cause I did'nt want a bunch of replies of people yelling at me.
 
the old guy I deer hunt with mentioned doing some coyote drives sometime. He didnt have much idea of how calling for them worked. They must have done drives like this when he was younger?
 
When I was a kid in Illinois, they would do coyote drives every year, in the small town farming area. Drivers, beaters and shotguns. That was back when most fields hand hedgerows and such. Alot different now with plowed fields from horizon to horizon.

Back in December, we had one of our farmers tell us "No" to calling his property, as he and his neighbors were going to do a coyote drive through the woods.

Tony
 
I would like to see what a coyote drive is like but I dont think they have them where I live.My grandpa did participate in a jackrabbit drive a long time ago though.They didnt use guns though they used baseball bats and clubs.
 
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My hat's off to the Amish ..... I did not know they would raise a hand to any of God's creatures ..... but I admire their "spunk" on this one!!

Three 44s



Dont admire them...in my area they kill everything they see, with out a care for game laws, deer, rabbits, turkeys etc. if it moves it dies.....
 
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My hat's off to the Amish ..... I did not know they would raise a hand to any of God's creatures ..... but I admire their "spunk" on this one!!

Three 44s



Dont admire them...in my area they kill everything they see, with out a care for game laws, deer, rabbits, turkeys etc. if it moves it dies.....



This is kinda like mountain lion sightings. I know a number of Amish they do take things out of season (some do) but there is plenty of deer, turkey , rabbits and other game on their properties when I hunt them. They also eat everything they kill woodchucks coons possums et al. But I do hear stories about them killing everything in sight. For them most part not true.

I do know hunters in my area who are not Amish who kill 8 to 10 deer and as many turkeys as they see and talk about it. So we should not be knocking a group as reverent as the Amish.
 
I was told back in the 40s and 50s in NE Iowa, fox had a bounty on them and Church congregations would go out and surround mile sections and walk to the middle with shot guns and shoot the heck out of the fox. At the time there were zillions of fox and it was a fund raiser for them.
The Amish in my area are avid hunters....especially bow hunters....and everyone that I know has a Matthews bow with all the latest equipment on it. They go with no camo so it makes it harder to take one....They also have all kinds of guns and ammo and trap as well. They are good guys and my friends. SM
 
whatever they want to do ,just so its not done in my hunting areas ,,dont want anyone harassing my yotes like that,,heck its allready tough enough as it is trying to call them up.
 


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