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Do you think the coyote feels sorry for ripping apart your neighbors farm animals, or stripping a hind quarter off of that trophy deer?

Do you feel bad for killing a mouse with a mouse trap? It's life!

I say get over it.

It is a pest not a pet?

If it was my pet that was suffering and I had to shoot it, I would feel bad.
 
Winchested said:
Do you think the coyote feels sorry for ripping apart your neighbors farm animals, or stripping a hind quarter off of that trophy deer?

Do you feel bad for killing a mouse with a mouse trap? It's life!

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I think he felt bad about potentially making it suffer, not the fact he was shooting it. And much as I believe a good coyote is a dead coyote (shoot on sight) you can't really attribute human emotions to a wild animal. Just like "thinking" that one or two year old child is doing something to annoy you. They're just doing....
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don't feel one iota of remorse for these rascals.
Have you ever seen a nice like buck with his hamstring clipped and then the coyotes start to eat him thru the gut while he is still alive??? This lamb didn't last too long.
Kill every coyote you come across and when they are gone start on the fishers!!

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Hey,
Mistakes happen and most importantly you finished the job shortly after the fact.
As others have posted it is virtous as a hunter of ANY game to strive for the quickest most humane kill.

Aligning your ethics to reflect the way the coyote kills is poor judgement, as predators kill in manner that suits their evolved hunting style, not in accordance with human sporting ethics. Varmints deserve the same respect as any game animal IMO.

Of course there is this type of nonsense......which should be ignored.
If my eyes where still good as they used to be, I would have shot off the front paws and then had a cup of tea, then do him in. They are nothing but garbage, pieces of fur crap! The whole gene pool should be wiped out on those things!
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it's a friggen coyote. if it were a deer, it'd be understandable to feel bad about winging one and losing it. but a coyote? screw it. chalk it up as a sign to get a bit more target practice. and if i'm reading this right, it made it about 200 yards before you plugged it right? so it suffered for what, 5 seconds? maybe? that's like me not killing a fish with one bonk to the head, killing it with the second bonk and feeling all sorry for the fish.
 
kayaker1 said:
Hey,
Mistakes happen and most importantly you finished the job shortly after the fact.
As others have posted it is virtous as a hunter of ANY game to strive for the quickest most humane kill.

Aligning your ethics to reflect the way the coyote kills is poor judgement, as predators kill in manner that suits their evolved hunting style, not in accordance with human sporting ethics. Varmints deserve the same respect as any game animal IMO.

Of course there is this type of nonsense......which should be ignored.
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If my eyes where still good as they used to be, I would have shot off the front paws and then had a cup of tea, then do him in. They are nothing but garbage, pieces of fur crap! The whole gene pool should be wiped out on those things!
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very well said kayaker1!
 
WINCHESTED, and the guy who would shoot paws off and have a cup of tea, the animal
still feels pain, we are the ones who are invading their space, and as far as them eating farm animals and shredding them apart, they are just trying to get by without starving.
Imagine this, you are in the bush and you are starving, you find a steak and a baked potato and a beer on a log. You go to grab it and you feel a shockwave hit you and you are in excruciating pain, you dont know what you did wrong, your confused, and you were just trying to get by and do what you do to live. And in my opinion, as people we are better then to not care what we do to animals, it is our job to make clean kills, if your gonna do a job, do it right. and i meant skinning, not gutting, i would never eat a coyote.
 
remington308 said:
WINCHESTED, and the guy who would shoot paws off and have a cup of tea, the animal
still feels pain, we are the ones who are invading their space, and as far as them eating farm animals and shredding them apart, they are just trying to get by without starving.
Imagine this, you are in the bush and you are starving, you find a steak and a baked potato and a beer on a log. You go to grab it and you feel a shockwave hit you and you are in excruciating pain, you dont know what you did wrong, your confused, and you were just trying to get by and do what you do to live. And in my opinion, as people we are better then to not care what we do to animals, it is our job to make clean kills, if your gonna do a job, do it right. and i meant skinning, not gutting, i would never eat a coyote.
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I quess we should be real careful about how we swat flies also ,cause they were here long before us.guess rats were here long before us also!

Anything else you got a problem with us handling on a need be baseis?

If Yotes need a baked potato,steak and a beer then they had better wear a shirt and shoes and head on down to the Texas Roadhouse!

Bob
 
Coyotes are so successful that we have a responsibility to keep their numbers in check. Few animals, predator or prey die easy in the wild, so for the most part the animal that dies from a rifle shot has won the lottery. When we press the trigger on a live target we have a responsibility to do our best to ensure a humane kill, regardless of what the target is. Having said that, I think we can give a farmer or a rancher a pass for taking a low percentage shot when his stock has suffered from coyote predation. But there is a line between taking a low percentage shot and intentionally wounding an animal. A predatory animal does not share the evil of his human counterpart, and shooting for vengeance crosses that line. Intentionally inflicting pain on any animal is wrong.

Despite out best intentions, the more often you shoot at a live target, the more often you will wound. The possibility of wounding is always there. But the more often you shoot at live targets, the better you'll get at it. Instead of wounding one in five, soon it becomes one in twenty. Not only does your marksmanship improve, but you also learn what shots to pass up. If you don't shoot at live targets for a while, you might be surprised to see the 1 in 5 ratio return, until you're back on your game.
 
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But the more often you shoot at live targets, the better you'll get at it. Instead of wounding one in five, soon it becomes one in twenty. Not only does your marksmanship improve, but you also learn what shots to pass up. If you don't shoot at live targets for a while, you might be surprised to see the 1 in 5 ratio return, until you're back on your game.
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And this is why I like to have a few coyotes around.:D
 
Well, at least you didn't shoot it with an SKS, then tell us all how you sat and listened to it bawl for 10 minutes.......

The fact that you felt bad says a lot.......if you joked and laughed about it, I'd wonder about ya.....
 
Make more shots on more Coyotes. Practice makes perfect. Always strive for an clean ethical kill (it proves you care about how well you shoot. And that you care about the Coyote as well).

I have shot them through the chest and still had them make a few yards.

You followed up as soon as you possibly could=a responsible and ethical shooter.

Keep practicing and shoot at every Coyote. Everytime that you have a safe shot.

I am going out to call some this afternoon. I might not make a perfect shot on every Coyote but I am still going to go out and try my best.
 
Coyotes are tough animals. Even well placed shots sometimes do not put them down right away. That is why I have been using my 338 Lapua AI lately. With them being worth $20 I do not want those paws getting away.

I have found with age I am becoming softer. I gets harder for me to kill anything without having some remorse.

"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he has and everything he going to have." - Clint Eastwood.

The same goes for animals. I find it most difficult on nice days where they are just laying around enjoying the sun along with me.
 
I understand your feeling man, a yote got caught in one of my snares just before christmass, but when i came to check it i found a total mess and a broken snare (S hook enlarged by the pull, wich is supposed to fail at 280lbs, seems that his neck was smaller then the 4 inch stopper) and allowed him to fight the trap. No blood at all, but he might have suffered.... all stoppers removed from snares.
 
I believe in quick kills, painless kills. But seriously, its a coyote, its not your dog you are euthanizing.

I bet the girl that got mauled by yotes and later died in hospital could tell you how much pain they dish out, so they better be able to take it too.
 
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