Coyote attack near Halifax

2bad4u2 said:
While I don't necessarily support a cull as per se, I would support DNR in having an open season on coyotes and relaxing restrictions on non-centerfire rifle useage after the large game season has ended. Let sportsmen and varmint hunters deal with the problem. There's no need to have DNR Rangers in the field wiping out the coyote population because of some "feel good" political mandate.
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jethunter said:
Actually NS has more repressive laws than ON.

When i lived in NS it was illegal to take a rifle outside of your house unless:
- it was hunting season and you had a valid license, or
- if you made a reservation at a public shooting range you were allowed to transport a rifle to the range, with one hour grace allowed before and after the timing of your reservation.
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In Nova Scotia, if you have purchased your 'Habitat Stamp' you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire until the last day of Feb
-Use a centerfire until the last day of March
-Use a shotgun with shot smaller than 4 buck any time.

You don't have to wear orange except during deer season.

See pages 15 and 71 of the rule booklet.
 
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BlackWatch said:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/04/09/ns-coyote-bounty-nova-scotia.html





I was able to chase him off into the ditch and tried to walk away. But, he kept on coming back to the trail and following me, and I'd have to frighten him away again," Sinclair said Friday.

"That was three or four times before he finally actually went away."



Sinclair may have surprised the coyote, said Russell MacKinlay, area supervisor for the Department of Natural Resources.

"From talking with the woman, we were sort of thinking it was more of a defensive thing," he told the Enfield Weekly Press. "In other words, she may have surprised the animal so it acted aggressively towards her."




Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scoti...-coyote-bounty-nova-scotia.html#ixzz0keX5plow
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Yup, she surprised the coyote so badly that it "....came back....three or four times before he finally actually went away".
Very astute deduction Holmes...er....MacKinlay.
 
Well a Mr. Mike Obrien *provincial gov't employee* was interviewed on CTV Atlantic recently about the 'coyote' problem, he saw it as mainly an 'image' problem, and needless to say, he came across like a radical preservationist to me. - where there is smoke, there is fire. :rolleyes: :jerkit:
 
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TwoTone said:
In Nova Scotia, if you have purchased your 'Habitat Stamp' you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire until the last day of Feb
-Use a centerfire until the last day of March
-Use a shotgun with shot smaller than 4 buck any time.

You don't have to wear orange except during deer season.

See pages 15 and 71 of the rule booklet.
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Year round, except for Sunday when the yotes go to church.
 
In Saskatchewan, if you are a resident you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire anytime
-Use a centerfire anytime
-Use a shotgun with whatever you want...anytime.

You CAN NOT wear orange during deer season, unless it's an unlucky yote, and you catch him while your deer hunting (tags in hand)

I like our rules better :D
 
2fat2fly said:
In Saskatchewan, if you are a resident you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire anytime
-Use a centerfire anytime
-Use a shotgun with whatever you want...anytime.

You CAN NOT wear orange during deer season, unless it's an unlucky yote, and you catch him while your deer hunting (tags in hand)

I like our rules better :D
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Me too.
 
fat tony said:
Well a Mr. Mike Obrien *provincial gov't employee* was interviewed on CTV Atlantic recently about the 'coyote' problem, he saw it as mainly an 'image' problem, and needless to say, he came across like a drooling moron, - he sounds like a radical preservationist to me. - where there is smoke, there is fire. :rolleyes: :jerkit:
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Truth be told, I too think that this "problem" is nothing more than the media taking isolated cases and blowing them up into a #### storm. Think about how many people enter/live around/live in the woods and how many 'yotes there are in Nova Scotia. Compare that to how many "attacks" (another word the media likes to use to hype it up - more like encounters), and I think that shows that there's no problem. To be frank, a bounty will do jack #### to the population. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with hunting coyotes, but to suggest, as the media has done, that a cull/bounty is appropriate is nothing more than ignorance, based on emotions/perceptions, rather than science and common sense. I think Mike O'brian has it right.
 
2fat2fly said:
In Saskatchewan, if you are a resident you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire anytime
-Use a centerfire anytime
-Use a shotgun with whatever you want...anytime.

You CAN NOT wear orange during deer season, unless it's an unlucky yote, and you catch him while your deer hunting (tags in hand)

I like our rules better :D
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The rules are the same for non-residents as well, ain't they?
 
We have a lady here west of Calgary who lives on an acreage who picks up roadkill off the highway and leaves it out on her back field picnic table for the coyotes to feed. She will someday be attacked herself I am sure. What she doesn't know is that when I see that she has put out fresh roadkill I get the gun out and hide along the fence and watch for the coyotes to come in. She is helping my hunting a whole lot and hasn't got a clue!! The irony of it is hilarious.
 
CanadianDad said:
We have a lady here west of Calgary who lives on an acreage who picks up roadkill off the highway and leaves it out on her back field picnic table for the coyotes to feed. She will someday be attacked herself I am sure. What she doesn't know is that when I see that she has put out fresh roadkill I get the gun out and hide along the fence and watch for the coyotes to come in. She is helping my hunting a whole lot and hasn't got a clue!! The irony of it is hilarious.
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HAHAHAH that's awesome. R:d:
 
paulm1 said:
Truth be told, I too think that this "problem" is nothing more than the media taking isolated cases and blowing them up into a s**t storm. Think about how many people enter/live around/live in the woods and how many 'yotes there are in Nova Scotia. Compare that to how many "attacks" (another word the media likes to use to hype it up - more like encounters), and I think that shows that there's no problem. To be frank, a bounty will do jack s**t to the population. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with hunting coyotes, but to suggest, as the media has done, that a cull/bounty is appropriate is nothing more than ignorance, based on emotions/perceptions, rather than science and common sense. I think Mike O'brian has it right.
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I don't really care about the alarmism, I am 46 years old and I have yet to see a coyote, but a gov't biologist who has tenure and is a politician, who'd a thought it? :rolleyes:
 
2fat2fly said:
In Saskatchewan, if you are a resident you may:

-Hunt Coyotes year round with no bag limit.
-Use a rimfire anytime
-Use a centerfire anytime
-Use a shotgun with whatever you want...anytime.

You CAN NOT wear orange during deer season, unless it's an unlucky yote, and you catch him while your deer hunting (tags in hand)

I like our rules better :D
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You forgot to mention that if you don't own at least 4-5 rifles, a handgun, a shotgun and enough ammo for all of them to fight a small war, the government is allowed to run medical tests on you to see what the hell is the matter with you and how it can be fixed...:D
 
Probably was someone's dog and she thought it was a coyote:). Everyone has jumped on the coyote hysteria ever since that report of the girl in Cape Breton. Every encounter now is an attack. Lady in Saint John had her lap dog attacked by a yote and she grabbed the yote, they called it an attack as well. The only attack I could see was on the poor coyote :)
We have yotes all around here, lose the odd cat but that doesn't hurt my feelings any. The kids still play out in the woods and fields but yotes are about the last thing I worry about. Country yotes still respect the heirarcy, all the brazen ones around here are dead.
 
If they put a bounty on them in NS I hope its open to the public and not just "trappers". The the scientists and even the NS Federation of Hunters and Anglers claim the coyotes wont be scared or learn any fear of man by us shooting their pack members.......bull crap imo.

Traping them in snairs in the woods is what wont make them fear man- the pack sees a family member dying to some odd bit of metal. If the people who are being attacked, ie if the "meat" fights back, THEN the coyotes may just fear their prey. They will see their fellow family members being harmed by their intended targets. They will witness the consequences of their actions in a cause-and-effect way.

Also, this would target only the problem animals as only the attacking coyotes would be targeted not the countless thousands in the woods bothering no one.

The Trappers Association of NS can kiss my bottom for asking to make any bounty -exclusive- to them!
 
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