Deer hunters from Ontario, fear not!

I'm out in the field tonight with my bow.....I was doing some grunting with my decoy(boss buck) 30yds away from my blind......1 Coyote comes out of the woods and starts eyeing up the decoy wind was in my favor but they circled and winded me never got any closer then 80yds.....
 
You get lots of snow down there in southern Ontario, but the snow at depth doesn't last very long, (I lived there for a bit) so the deer don't get worn down and eaten, the way they are up north. Nor do they starve to death because they can't get to food sources.
 
Bad news for deer in some areas just north of me. I was up there last night, The bush looks like it got an entire seasons worth of snow in one fall. Absolutely incredible. Some of the back roads are down to one lane, no place to put the snow.
Thankfully, it's still got no crust on it, so the deer can move reasonably well.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
You get lots of snow down there in southern Ontario, but the snow at depth doesn't last very long, (I lived there for a bit) so the deer don't get worn down and eaten, the way they are up north. Nor do they starve to death because they can't get to food sources.
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I am just outside of London ON.......we have a pile of yotes this year, around my area anyways. The funny thing is, the London Hunt Club Kennels is just down the road from me, they hunt on Horse Back, with Fox Hounds, for Coyotes and Fox in my area. They saw a crapload of coyotes this year, with very few Fox spotted, and the Huntsman stated that the deer population is way down. He saw more Bucks this year than Does......they cover a crappile more country than the average Joe!

I hear the yotes practically every night I am out deer hunting, and a couple were pretty bold one night, followed me from my stand to the truck, kept about 100 - 150 yards back, but you could see them weaving back and forth along the trail, in the moonlight!
 
I was exchanging emails with a hunting lodge owner in WMU 54 near Haliburton and he says the coyote predator situation is ridiculous and to make matters worse wolf/coyote hunting is banned in his township as he is on the outskirts of Algonguin Park.

On another note: I was looking up the hunting regs yesterday and i just noticed that we have an open season for Deer up here ! Even Antlerless for the frist time ? Never seen a deer in my life.....just 2nd hand accounts.

Not too much snow up here yet..gonna get down to -30 below tonight.
 
Doug said:
I was out on Tuesday with the bow, before the big storm. Nothing, nada, rien.

Back out today to leave a few apples, and our stands have been over-run. To arms!!!!!! :eek:

(tomorrow morning.......................and now it is bedtime. :D)

Doug
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Douglas, if I were you and shot a buck the size you did already I'd count my blessings and hang the damn bow up on the wall till next year!;)

Oh, and next time you sell a $200 Savage truck gun and don't get ahold of me first I'll find something to infract you with!:D:eek:
 
Well - If you read the rag the MNR puts out (Hunt Camp News?), they state that the deer population is way down, principally due to the harsh winter 2 years ago. They even give stats - in zone 57, 1800 animals were harvested two years ago, 1100 last year, and I bet even less this year (2009). The MNR go on to state that they dropped something like 1200 tonnes of feed to support the population.
The population was certainly down in our location - normally, we harvest 5-6 animals, and see 15-20. This year, we got one, and saw 3! This was the prevailing sentiment among hunters canvassed at the hotel here in Bancroft, and one CO who canvassed me on watch. Perhaps CanHunt312 could invite all of us old inept hunters to his camp for our benefit and education - we must be doing something wrong?
 
I am near Kingston Ontario, and we normally have a fair amount of accumulative snow fall over the winter. However, we also have several mid season melt offs, so the snow level at any given time is relatively moderate. The winters of 2007/08 and 2008/09 we did not have the normal mid season melt offs, so the snow levels were very high and the deer around here have really dropped off in numbers. Plus we seem to have more coyotes than normal, or maybe they are just moving more to get what they need to survive.

Yesterday I was driving out of towm, headed for my dad's farm. I see a doe come out of the woods on the right running hard, she sees me and puts on the brakes. I stop, and she proceeds across the road as fast as she can, followed by a fawn that does not have a white tail, it is red with blood. The doe and the fawn are now on the grass beyond the shoulder on my left watching their back trail when three coyotes break out of the woods on a dead run, cross the road and chase the deer. If I had been driving my truck I would have run them over, but I was driving a low slung car that would have recieved too much damage. I feel the doe will likely survive, but the fawn will not, she was bleeding steady leaving a good trail for the coyotes to follow. They will not give up until they kill it.
 
telesquirt said:
The wolves are coming right into town to pull deer down in our back yards!
This was in todays paper.





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Ya, saw a couple myself this spring. I had my asphalt plant set up in the Nickel Lake pit and saw a couple way in the back by the quarry. Of course, that was when I was actually at work and not sneaking over to the boat launch for some awesome small mouth fishing!;)
 
This year was the worst hunt I've had in years. I normally see 15-20 deer during the gun hunt and shoot 3-5 (party hunting guys, calm down). This year I never even saw a deer during the first 2 weeks, took one big buck during the muzzleloader hunt and only got one more (a fawn) with the archery hunt. Could have shot a couple does with the bow but figured they'd be better left to have their little ones. I did shoot 2 coyotes though...
 
I'm not a professional like some on here, but I have observed a massive increase in coyotes this year as well as a much lower sighting of deer. Huge packs of coyotes have created unsafe conditions for people walking at night, so I can only imagine the problems the deer around here are having. I am yet to see any deer while hunting, but the bi@#$es are laughing at me once it gets dark. I've had 3 sightings within 50 yards from my yard in the last month, including a doe with 3 fawns that has been cruising the farm behind my house. How long they last is anybody's guess, but there is a four foot path a 1/4 mile long along the my backyard fence line from the coyotes. If the wind is right, when I take my female Doberman out for a pee, Wile E. and his merry band of mange-hounds are at the fence yipping and barking at us within 20 minutes.
Previous years we've had the way more deer and nowhere near the amount of yotes. AFAIK, you don't need to be a world-class hunter to see the obvious change in numbers.
 
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