Corey,
I'm in complete agreement that we should kill coyotes whenever the oppurtunity presents itself, just make use of the loopholes in the laws. Unfortunately, they are here to stay! In the areas that I hunt (Rappahannock, Fauquier, Culpeper,Orange, Lousia, and my surrounding counties) the coyote problems are getting worse. With the influx of city(re: anti-hunting)folks to these areas the problem will grow rapidly. They don't care about the deer population, less deer mean less damage to their Bimmers and Mercedes and they could care less about turkeys and other small game. They'll only get the message when Tabby, Fifi, and Fido disappear from the yard or when a small child gets bitten by a rabid 35 pound animal, rather than a fox or 'coon. Other than farmers with livestock, the only other landowners that want the coyotes reduced are the horse and hound fox hunters. Some fox hunting associations are actually paying their own bounties on coyotes killed on properties on which they fox hunt.
I think it's foolish to think that we could really reduce the coyote populations by hunting, even if we had full access to hunt on all the land that contains them, but it would be satisfying to try!
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