Nova Scotia coyote regulations

I believe so, if you get a bear stamp you can carry a rifle starting the second Monday in September. Also from April til September you can only carry bird shot in your shotgun. I don't think there is a worse province to own guns in.
 
Nova Scotia has designed their hunting regulations as a way to create and enforce their own firearms laws.
 
it's interesting they would make coyote season all year but limit you to birdshot most of the year. seems quite silly to me.

The regs say shot, not birdshot. I guess that could be buckshot as well. I'll try to find out.
 
It's really strange that the eastern regions are so darned regulatory heavy on such really useful varmint&farm rifles as these small bore centrefires;
-17-22 Hornet, 221, 222 & 223, etc.
PEI & Nfld are equally as imposing, if not actually a tab bit worse than NS presently sits.

Therefore local coyote/coydog problems are just enhanced by outright dumb rules IMHO.
 
Some coyotes are getting close to 100 pounds in Nova Scotia. But you can't take a gun in the woods for protection.
 
BlackWatch said:
Some coyotes are getting close to 100 pounds in Nova Scotia. But you can't take a gun in the woods for protection.
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Someone needs a court case to challenge these silly-stupid provincial rules as against federal charter rights and therefor unconstitutional.
Because really, federal laws are supposed to trump provincial laws. And not to dog pile each other.

Joseph Howe, the once hero of democracy and free speech in this nation, should be spinning in his NS grave!
 
Brutus said:
Cross breeding I can understand that amount......
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Not to the 100 pound range IMOP Brutus........ coyotes and wolves will interbreed, but only with eastern grey and red wolves, neither of which reach near 100 pounds..... so it stands to reason the offspring would be at best the weight of the larger red or eastern greywolf (which is less than 80 pounds max).....

The largest wolf (western grey or timber wolf) can reach 100 pounds plus, and even that is a big specimen....... and they don't breed with coyotes, they destroy and eat them as they are extremely territorial.....

I will admit that anything is possible with nature, but such a specimen has never been confirmed, and until one is, it's best to stick with facts......
 
80 or 100 pounds, at that size who really cares what reads on the digital scale Superbrad?
Heck I work in oil camp and you would be very surprised of the number of living on rural reserve people, that routinely mistake coyotes as wolves.

respectfully
 
Brutus said:
80 or 100 pounds, at that size who really cares what reads on the digital scale Superbrad?
Heck I work in oil camp and you would be very surprised of the number of living on rural reserve people, that routinely mistake coyotes as wolves.

respectfully
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No need to add "respectfully" Brutus and it goes both ways.... :)

I too am familiar with people calling coyotes wolves in my hunt camp area as both are present..... call it "eternal human optimism" as they wish to think they saw or shot the bigger species....

As far as I recall, the record coyote is in the low 70's..... it sure on Timberwolf record but have seen some monster picture from the north of 120+ pound (claimed) beasts.........

My personal largest record coyote was 65 pounds weighed (and it had a huge gut full from feasting on deer piles)...... my best wolf was taken in northern Ontario and barely made 100 pounds.....

I personally find people misjudge animals on the hoof or paw and tend to overaggerate...... I will admit that I am guilty as well, as I could have sworn both my wolf and yote would have checked in higher......

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Some have also been crossed with dogs. The reports of 90+ pound coyotes have come out of the shelburne area, nothing confirmed. I believe there have been some shot that were 75-85 lbs. I haven't seen any that big and the ones in my area that have been hit by cars look about 60-65 pounds.
Some of the tracks I see back in the woods are bigger than my retriever, she's 75 pounds.
 
Our best was around that 65 number a few times and most of those had a belly full. I have been told by a lot of people in our area that while driving that they have seen 100lb wolves. Anything is possible.
 
BlackWatch said:
Some have also been crossed with dogs. The reports of 90+ pound coyotes have come out of the shelburne area, nothing confirmed. I believe there have been some shot that were 75-85 lbs. I haven't seen any that big and the ones in my area that have been hit by cars look about 60-65 pounds.
Some of the tracks I see back in the woods are bigger than my retriever, she's 75 pounds.
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Not meant to discredit you blackwatch....... there may very well (and likely are) some "abominations" out there........ but none have actually been submitted for testing....... and even at that, they are just that..... abominations......so, as such, creatures of legend so to speak...

A perfect example is the "coyote" harvested in Newfoundland that incited much debate only to end up being a Labrador wolf that crossed on the ice after dna testing.......

There is plenty of evidence that coyotes and esteem grey and red wolf have interbred from Ontario east..... but we have yet to see the massive "coywolf"....
 
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