coyote hunting caliber restrictions/bounty?

sunray said:
"...Ontario, most southern part..." It's not 'most'. Only certain municipalities. Wellington County and West, the calibre restriction is .275, by the cartridge name, not the bullet diameter. A .270 Win is ok, but a .276 Pedersen, for example, isn't.
A bunch of the municipalities around TO say .270. Means a .275 Weatherby is out. Same bullet diameter.
The whole thing is idiotic. Arbitrary cartridge limit decided upon by idiot civil servants.
Saw a TV show(Canadian Geographic) the other day that said about 40,000 coyotes are shot annually. Wiley's numbers and range is still increasing. Apparently shooting them makes them randy.
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Most of Niagara Region is .22 centerfire max. MNR regs don't mean s**t. Municipal by-laws are the law that should be followed in regards to calibre choices.

In my trapping course they said to eradicate coyotes you would need to kill 80% of them 10 years in a row. Coyotes actually have more pups in tough times then they do in good years. If a ##### has 3 pups and they all die the next year she will have 4 or 5 or even more.

maka

P.S. I am agreeing with SUNRAY'S post not disaggreeing
 
Alberta does NOT allow for any kind of night hunting. I don't know about sask...bc has a livestock protection provision that allows for shooting at night for livestock protection
 
You cannot hunt legally anywhere in Canada at night,provisions for protection of livestock are in place in all Prov's.
Alberta does not have a caliber restriction for harvesting Dawgs" but how do you harvest the fur if nothing is left"
Counties and municipalities do put bounties on them when they are over populated and become problematic
 
e callers are legal in ns, you can only use a center fire from the end of deer season (1st week of December) until march 31, then shotgun only. No closed season for coyotes, need habitat stamp ($3.00) to hunt them year round. Right now there is a 20.00 bounty payable if the pelts are prepped and sold to a fur buyer or auction.

I'd hold off on buying that rifle just for coyotes if you're heading to NS.
 
1000yds said:
You cannot hunt legally anywhere in Canada at night,provisions for protection of livestock are in place in all Prov's.
Alberta does not have a caliber restriction for harvesting Dawgs" but how do you harvest the fur if nothing is left"
Counties and municipalities do put bounties on them when they are over populated and become problematic
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Not 100% true.........in NS and Ontario at least, raccoon hunting at night with 22 LR & dogs is permitted. Not sure about other provinces though.
 
nexgen said:
e callers are legal in ns, you can only use a center fire from the end of deer season (1st week of December) until march 31, then shotgun only. No closed season for coyotes, need habitat stamp ($3.00) to hunt them year round. Right now there is a 20.00 bounty payable if the pelts are prepped and sold to a fur buyer or auction.

I'd hold off on buying that rifle just for coyotes if you're heading to NS.
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Not 100%
You can't use a centerfire .22 except from the close of deer season till March 31. But, if you hold a valid big game lic, you can use any weapon that is permissible for that lic to hunt coyote. 23 cal and up centerfire, muzzle loader, bow or crossbow.
Other harvestable wildlife (including coyotes) can be hunted with a rimfire of .22 or less (.17's) or a .40 cal or less muzzle loader from Oct 15 till March 31.
The rest of the year it's a shotgun with shot (no pellet size restrictions) or a bow or crossbow with or without broadheads.
If your a lic furharvester, you can use a .22 or smaller rimfire, day or night, 7 days a week to dispatch coyotes in traps.
So, buy a bear hunting stamp and a deer stamp and your 243 is good from Sept 12 till March 31.
 
Brutus said:
Big holes in nice pelts, equals lost revenue. Shotgun pellets, even worse.
Of all regions in Canada, the eastern part should embrace the small calibre centerfires. NS & PEI both have got it backwards IMO.
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We've had a number of odd regs changed over the years and there will be more. Every year there is usually a change of some kind.
Not sure I agree with you about arms choices tho. My family hunted with hounds for many years, bobcat, fox, coon and coyote, almost always carrying a 12 gauge. Often with #2 or BB. Unless they were awfully close the damage was never bad and usually if it was close, it'd be in the head. Not a lot of "badly damaged" pelts. Just becouse we can now use buckshot dosen't mean I suggest it, just reading the regs.
If your into hand loading, there's lots of good light .243 bullets that won't blow a pelt all to pieces. IMO
I'd love to be able to hunt with an AR in .223 but for now I do what I can with what I'm allowed.
 
in ontario the .275 rule is caliber not name ,all depends on co you get, i know of guys charged using a 270win because co said it was .277 caliber .they should clear it up, you wont see me using a 270 win what you gonna say to the judge when they say your 270 is actually 277caliber and ut says specifically up to .275 caliber
 
caper587 said:
We've had a number of odd regs changed over the years and there will be more. Every year there is usually a change of some kind.
Not sure I agree with you about arms choices tho. My family hunted with hounds for many years, bobcat, fox, coon and coyote, almost always carrying a 12 gauge. Often with #2 or BB. Unless they were awfully close the damage was never bad and usually if it was close, it'd be in the head. Not a lot of "badly damaged" pelts. Just becouse we can now use buckshot dosen't mean I suggest it, just reading the regs.
If your into hand loading, there's lots of good light .243 bullets that won't blow a pelt all to pieces. IMO
I'd love to be able to hunt with an AR in .223 but for now I do what I can with what I'm allowed.
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I could agree with you on the birdshot, as sometimes it only takes one lucky pellet.
I'm not so sure about the 6mm calibres though........
 
Brutus said:
I could agree with you on the birdshot, as sometimes it only takes one lucky pellet.
I'm not so sure about the 6mm calibres though........
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If your only getting one pellet in them then you really are lucky to get them at all. If I was shooting say, a bobcat up a tree at close range then I would usually aim just off to the side of it's head so the main charge would mostly miss and you'd hit him with only a few pellets. But still a few. I don't think I ever had many head shots ever get graded as damaged or slt damaged.
On the ground I'm shooting centered unless their awfully close. A few pellet holes look bad when their first stretched, but after you turn them fur out it dosen't show. Not unless it's a big hole. Even then we've stitched a few up.
 
To think of any shotgun as coyote caliber is ridiculous... it's great if you have a combo gun or you are willing to haul two firearms.....

Be prepared to make a 100 yard shot.... minimum.... and it's nice to acknowledge that they can come over your shoulder and be at 20 yards.... in that case your rifle will take them too...
 
Superbrad said:
To think of any shotgun as coyote caliber is ridiculous... it's great if you have a combo gun or you are willing to haul two firearms.....

Be prepared to make a 100 yard shot.... minimum.... and it's nice to acknowledge that they can come over your shoulder and be at 20 yards.... in that case your rifle will take them too...
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I'm not sure what you mean by the "Shotgun as coyote caliber" Brad?
Here in NS there are lots of open fields, barrens, cut overs, ect. that are great for the rifle, but there's lots of thick cover too that is great for calling with a shotgun.
I like the idea of the buddy system with one man facing the thick stuff with the shotgun and one looking over the open with a rifle. It works.
Most of my experience with a shotgun, that I was talking about before, was hunting with the hounds. A rifles not much good around here for that.
So coyotes can and are taken with both.
 
caper587 said:
I'm not sure what you mean by the "Shotgun as coyote caliber" Brad?
Here in NS there are lots of open fields, barrens, cut overs, ect. that are great for the rifle, but there's lots of thick cover too that is great for calling with a shotgun.
I like the idea of the buddy system with one man facing the thick stuff with the shotgun and one looking over the open with a rifle. It works.
Most of my experience with a shotgun, that I was talking about before, was hunting with the hounds. A rifles not much good around here for that.
So coyotes can and are taken with both.
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I agree with your assesment... great to have both in a set.... all I will say is that the rifle will go out a long ways with practice where the shotgun won't.... truthfuly IMOP it is more important to pick a good rifle and use the proper scope....

You are right... don"t expect to use your 6-20x for brush busters... but why carry it in that situation..... get a good rilfe and a scope in 4-12... leave it at 4 until you need better... jmop
 
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