Hunting coyotes with pups....

Kino M

Kino M

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So it seems that most guys have moved on to spring/summer activities but there are some that are still posting pics of kills and seem to still be hunting coyotes year round. This got me thinking what other guys opinions are on hunting coyotes while they are raising young pups.

I understand that in a true circumstance where coyotes are problems killing livestock they need to be eliminated/reduced but what about hunting not even close to ranches???

Personally I hunt hard in the fall/winter months. I don't hunt them in the spring or summer unless it's for a rancher with issues and even then I still hate the thought of pups starving to death without their parents.

So what say you guys opinions on this or am I just getting soft and old!!!
 
I shoot them year-round.
Normally from sun up to around 11 AM then switch to Prairie dogs till I run out of ammo or sun...
 
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Your set of values makes total sense to me.

I personally don't shoot them May - August. Let them raise their pups, start again late summer.

P.S. We have very high whitetail numbers here, I wish we had twice as many coyotes and half as many deer!
 
To each their own. Hunt them when and however you want, within the law.
My personal choices and reasons why and when I hunt may not be the same for others here.....and thats ok.
 
Why I don’t hunt summer, spring and fall-
Don’t like bugs
Don’t like Rattlesnakes
Don’t like sweating my arse off
Don’t like killing coyotes that don’t or won’t make it to the fur market
Don’t like to kill pregnant coyotes
Don’t like to kill coyotes raising young

Come late October, it’s game on!
 
What do you think about hunting Whitetail?
What do you think about hunting Mule deer?
What do you think about hunting Antelope?
All suffer from coyote pressure.
AND yet we can hunt cow elk into march and smile when we get one, pregnant.

But we are all entitled to our own opinion.
I do respect that.
 
I take out my fair share of Coyotes every year.

Don’t hunt elk
Don’t hunt whitetail
Don’t hunt Mule Deer
Don’t hunt antelope and they are one of the main prairie roamers where I hunt. Ranchers hate antelope more than they hate Coyotes.

97% of the 190+ ranches I hunt have never lost a Calf or a Cow to a Coyote, it’s always after the fact. Most coyotes out here scavenge 1st and kill last.
 
I see you’ve been a member here a long time ! This question comes up quite frequently !

Crapshoot is right ! Hunt however you want within the law !!!
 
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Anytime I can... Before I started hunting cats with my hounds it was primarily a winter game for me. Now it more of a summer activity. Being on a stand in a t shirt is actually quite enjoyable.
 
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Originally Posted By: Jim ByersAnytime I can... Before I started hunting cats with my hounds it was primarily a winter game for me. Now it more of a summer activity. Being on a stand in a t shirt is actually quite enjoyable.


Montana summers vary a lot from southern Nevada summers.
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Going out to shoot targets one day with my 7 yr old we happened upon a coyote pup and i didn't shoot it.
We've got a range set up near a small feed/starter yard and he winters his cows on the same 1/4. Every time I'm in the area I make a loop around his farm place looking for a target of opportunity. The morning that i saw the pup I probably would have shot it, but told the boy that it was a jackrabbit. I didn't want to deal with the emotions of shooting a tiny little "puppy". It wasn't much bigger than a jack.
 
I don't shoot coyotes after February unless there's something wrong with them. I'll shoot a coyote with mange any chance I get. At that point it won't matter if there's pups in the den because if their parents have mange they'll have it too. Still don't like the thought of them starving to death but the thought of them freezing to death and spreading disease to other coyotes in the meantime ain't any better.

I ain't out to eradicate them. But I'm not a rancher of any sort neither. Plus calling when bugs are out sucks. Seems like every time I've called when the bugs were out I had gnats in my hair making me itch or a fly right in the corner of my mouth or crawling around my eyes while I'm trying to be still. Drives me freakin bonkers. I'd rather wait until it's freezing cold.
 
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Its a love hate relationship for me. I walk around in the winter and spring finding piles of pheasant feathers, rabbit hair blowing around, coon case skinned eaten to the skull. Follow coyote tracks chasing deer. But nothing better for me than setting out there in the winter surrounded by howling coyote. Early February it gets hard to pull the trigger and done by late February. Early muzzleloader in October with a carcus is my opener. I do put the fur up so I want them in their prime.
 
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Even though we can hunt them 24/7 year round, I don’t when they might have pups in the den, so I hunt them Sept. through March. I don’t like the idea of pups starving. That’s just me. I don’t fault anyone who does. As a benefit to not hunting during pup raising time, it helps insure that I don’t lessen the numbers for the upcoming season. We don’t have a big population of coyotes here. Everyone has their own reason for or against, and I respect that.
 
I hunt them year around. I actually started hunting them due to them killing 2 calves within a week and a half one-year. I caught the male in the cow field at night a week or so later and got him. We never had a problem again. I think it was around this time of the year.
I rotate nights/days every 3 months so I'll hunt whichever I'm on at at the time. I go out on my nights off now
Another time with my buddy we walked over a hill to a coyote chasing a calf around it's mom so I guess it happens pretty often. I hear once they start that they will keep doing it which makes sense to me.
Researching it, it seems there is a good shot the pups will live if you take a parent out. One of the other coyotes in the pack will step up.
 


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