How do you explain shooting coyotes?

Pickles said:
I try not to have any conversations with idiots.

For some reason people think it's okay to question why you hunt.

When confronted by this I ask them if they have a problem with ###s? The answer is always "NO"

I then ask them if they would go up to a ### person and question their lifestyle. "That's none of my business" is the typical answer.

"Exactly" is my response.

Or a good old fashioned "Phuck you" works.:D

Some people think that you can explain why they hunt. These non hunters have their minds made up and I think it's a confrontational conversation starter. Their arguments are based on emotion.

We'll never change their minds so why bother.
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You have ###s and antis up there? Not the rugged frontier I imagined.
 
one of the places I shoot has lost 3 dogs OFF THE PORCH, others loose calves, ponys,lots of sheep,cats & last year some lyama kids. They eat a hell of a lot more than mice. Any game animal is on the menu. If they can catch it they will try it.
 
308BAR said:
Coyotes are like chinese jumping carp, non native, and they are known to eat small to medium size dogs and babies. Just think about the babies. ;) Save a Road Runner. Kill a Yote.
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.17 said:
Why shoot coyotes? Because I enjoy hunting and shooting.
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To the first poster: non native? Where are you located? I am sure they are native nearly everywhere in North America.

To .17. Thanks - I read the entire thread looking for that response. Had I not found it I would have had to write it myself. As for the distinction between hunting for meat and hunting for sport I don't really draw that line. There are some true meat hunters and there are some true sport hunters but I think most are some of each.
 
Seeing coyotes eating a fawn as it's being born is a more common sight than you may think. Like any predator in nature it ain't pretty.
Sure, they eat mice, so do hawks, owls, foxes, weasels, etc. Hawks etc. don't eat antelope and deer (or dogs or sheep, or calves).
In my opinion a good coyote is a dead one. If you can get $$ for it's hide well that's just a bonus.

And don't get me started about those %^&* wolves. (or rattlesnakes)
 
drache , you could always say " If I have to Explain, You Wouldn't Understand "
Really, why worry what the antis think of your hobby?
Certainly you do not care what they do behind closed doors or in the woods, do you?
Tight Groups,
Rob
 
I aslo don't consider yote hunting a "sport", its more akin to wolfs killing yotes to ease up on competition. I don't go out of my way to hunt them, but when they attack my turkey dekes or follow
me around, they're done.
 
Schlephunter said:
To the first poster: non native? Where are you located? I am sure they are native nearly everywhere in North America.

To .17. Thanks - I read the entire thread looking for that response. Had I not found it I would have had to write it myself. As for the distinction between hunting for meat and hunting for sport I don't really draw that line. There are some true meat hunters and there are some true sport hunters but I think most are some of each.
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yotes are not native in Nova SCotia.

What annoyes me is when people say the dept of lands and forest are the ones to take care of the yotes that cause trouble. I say mind your own business and GTFO out of my life.

There's a difference between killing for pleasure and killing for a purpose.
 
_Rai_ said:
yotes are not native in Nova SCotia.

What annoyes me is when people say the dept of lands and forest are the ones to take care of the yotes that cause trouble. I say mind your own business and GTFO out of my life.

There's a difference between killing for pleasure and killing for a purpose.
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Correct. Popular belief is that yotes were brought to NS by some farmers who were losing crops to large rabbit populations and they, of course, got out of control.
When I was a kid (there were no coyotes reported in NS), I used to shoot 4-5 rabbits every couple of days (sold them for my cash). By the time I was 20, you couldn't get a rabbit unless you had a dog running them. Gave that up and by the time I was 25 EVERYONE knew we had yotes around, even lost sheep and calves in nearby farms, and several children were attacked in their back yards in broad daylight.
 
Well sherlock meet me tomorrow at 5.00 am we will look for tracks,about 8.00 we will pick the freshest set,you can put on your snow shoes,wade though the 2 ft of fluffy snow.Hopefully you are a good enough tracker to bring the coyote to the gun.When your ass is dragging on your snow shoes,the coyote has walked around you for the 5th time,you feel stupid,your tired the good news its is only 9.00 am you only got 9 hours of fun to go!!!!!Then you can say its not a sport!!!
 
I'm getting at 5 to up hunt as well tmr.

The statement above I said "for me", so unless you were me that statement does not apply. I have buddies that run the blocks with hounds and carry their foxpro around all winter, but they are not me as neither.
 
Just to clarify, this wasn't anti's on hunting. It was family while the three of us were hunting. Some members of my family are deep in the tradition that you only kill an animal for very set reasons. You are going to eat it yourself, it's wounded and needs to be put out of it's misery, or it's attacking you or your livestock. They just cant see going out to hunt something like Coyotes just for the "fun" of it.
 
drache said:
You are going to eat it yourself, it's wounded and needs to be put out of it's misery, or it's attacking you or your livestock. They just cant see going out to hunt something like Coyotes just for the "fun" of it.
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Just a hunch but it's probably not better to wait until after a coyote attacks your livestock, eats your cat, or jumps your kid at recess.:D I mean have you ever checked a coyote's scat, it's harier than my great uncle Ernie's earlobes. Those varminty little dogs eat anything that moves; no discrimination - none!
 
When I was a kid, our beagle, Shawna was eaten by coyotes. My Dad shot 8 of them that winter. The only good one is a dead one....seven days in a hot sun.
 
drache said:
How do you explain shooting coyotes to people?

I was out hunting last year with family and as we were leaving an area there was a coyote standing broadside on the trail. I went to raise my rifle and instead was chastised for it by the family members.

Now there was a very large open season for them with a No Bag Limit at the time.

I tried explaining about the Conservation side and they just weren't going to listen. They stated that I was to only shoot what I was planning to eat myself.

Well I got tired of arguing with them and let them have it since the coyote was long gone anyways.
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I've been in your position as well, There are some people that just do not understand the importance of population control and conservation. When it comes down to it i explain to them that for the most part coyotes do not have any natural predators and if it wasn't for hunters keeping the population in check their populations would sore to unsustainable levels.

Or just show them this diagram it really seems to help:

1- MAN
2- Everything else!
 
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