Sask coyotes DOWN !!
- Thread starter scott_r
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Nice Job... I'm living in the wrong place for sure!
Looks like you have yotes everywhere and you get $20 each for shooting them? SWEET.
I'm only allowed two a year ( 4 if I use my wifes tags...I mean is she comes too ) and I have to pay for the honour of shooting them... $10 buck each on top of have small game tag!
WOW
Looks like you have yotes everywhere and you get $20 each for shooting them? SWEET.
I'm only allowed two a year ( 4 if I use my wifes tags...I mean is she comes too ) and I have to pay for the honour of shooting them... $10 buck each on top of have small game tag!
WOW
Years ago many areas had bounties on a variety of "Unwanted " creatures. BC had bounty on wolves, coyotes and even eagles.
Then the biologists figured out that bounties did nothing. It accounted for killing the surplus animals, but that was about all, there was virtually no effect on overall populations. Thus, probably every jurisdiction that had the bounty system did away with them. I was really surprised to see Saskatchewan take such a backward step.
The great success on your day of hunting proves a few things, I think. Coyotes certainly must be on a population high, well above their normal numbers. They all came to a simple call, showing they were hungry. And that proves their normal food was/is hard to find.
Wild animal populations are mostly cyclic in nature, meaning their populations rise and fall, largely depending on the food supply.
I predict the Saskatchewan coyotes have reached the top of a cycle and are on the way down, bounty or no bounty.
Then the biologists figured out that bounties did nothing. It accounted for killing the surplus animals, but that was about all, there was virtually no effect on overall populations. Thus, probably every jurisdiction that had the bounty system did away with them. I was really surprised to see Saskatchewan take such a backward step.
The great success on your day of hunting proves a few things, I think. Coyotes certainly must be on a population high, well above their normal numbers. They all came to a simple call, showing they were hungry. And that proves their normal food was/is hard to find.
Wild animal populations are mostly cyclic in nature, meaning their populations rise and fall, largely depending on the food supply.
I predict the Saskatchewan coyotes have reached the top of a cycle and are on the way down, bounty or no bounty.
- Location
- London, Ontario
Awsome!!!
- Location
- Algoma region
I would love to have a pile of skulls from those beautys, heck chop off their heads pack em in salt and ship em to me Ill do all the cleaning.
Great shooting looks like a great day to me!
Great shooting looks like a great day to me!
That sounds like an awesome day.....I am really beginning to hate you Southerners....
IT is discrimination, everything North of P.A is in Fur Conservation Block and thus can only be hunted if you have rights to a trapping line and are a licensed trapper.
I do plan on heading South for Christmas and I am bringing my 6mm loaded with 55 gr Nosler BSTs....they are grouping really nice at 200 yards. Hopefully you Southerners left me some to shoot
IT is discrimination, everything North of P.A is in Fur Conservation Block and thus can only be hunted if you have rights to a trapping line and are a licensed trapper.
I do plan on heading South for Christmas and I am bringing my 6mm loaded with 55 gr Nosler BSTs....they are grouping really nice at 200 yards. Hopefully you Southerners left me some to shoot
Yeah they were all healthy dogs, all their teeth were good and pelts heavy.
I have not come across any dogs with mange which is nice to see.
M12shooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- East St. Paul, mb
Fine job on the yotes. I have not shot nine yotes in the last five years! Bitter temps always mean hungry yotes.
Nice haul, wish we had a bounty here. Looking like a 204 with a heavy bullet does the job just fine at shorter ranges.
I suggest you keep at least 1 good hide, and see if you can find someone like the stereotypical old Indian woman who could sew you a pair of mitts from it.
Have the mitts feature a flip-over cap for your fingers, so you can flick them open to use your fingers, then back closed to keep them warm.
I have a pair of wool/thinsulate mitts like that from Mark's, and rarely find my hands cold.
Coyote fur also makes great hats or trim for hats, as it tends not to collect ice.
Have the mitts feature a flip-over cap for your fingers, so you can flick them open to use your fingers, then back closed to keep them warm.
I have a pair of wool/thinsulate mitts like that from Mark's, and rarely find my hands cold.
Coyote fur also makes great hats or trim for hats, as it tends not to collect ice.
Yes, Fassteel, in the picture they look healthy, but that doesn't tell the whole story.
You people who are living in the area, what will be the coyotes main source of food from now until the gophers come out?
By following the posts on here, and other blogs, it is evident that the coyote population in Saskatchewan is very high, maybe at an all time high. Has their food source also risen to great levels, to keep them eating?
I don't think so, but I will look forward to some information from some of you who live there, as to what you think of their winter food supply.
In the late 1940s, early 1950s, BC had a $25. bounty on wolves. Since men working in the bush and in sawmills were paid less than a dollar an hour and a modern, three bedroom house in town would sell for up to eight to ten thousand dollars, that $25 bounty would be like $300 or $350 at least, now.
However, that huge bounty didn't stop the wolves from increasing to again, likely an all time high. Wolves were everywhere. They could be seen along roads. One fellow ran into a whole pack of them on a deeply snow plowed winter road and killed five.
When they started eating the ranchers cattle, the government got upset and instigated the largest, organized wolf poisoning program that was ever carried out in north america.
The time, the 1950s, coincided with the time that biologists got into managing wildlife in BC, and I suppose many other jurisdictitions in N.A.
The BC biologists quickly did away with all bounties, saying it was just a waste of money. In a few years the bounty system was done away with, in virtually every province or state.
So, yes, I think it was a backward step for Sask to re invent the bounty system.
You people who are living in the area, what will be the coyotes main source of food from now until the gophers come out?
By following the posts on here, and other blogs, it is evident that the coyote population in Saskatchewan is very high, maybe at an all time high. Has their food source also risen to great levels, to keep them eating?
I don't think so, but I will look forward to some information from some of you who live there, as to what you think of their winter food supply.
In the late 1940s, early 1950s, BC had a $25. bounty on wolves. Since men working in the bush and in sawmills were paid less than a dollar an hour and a modern, three bedroom house in town would sell for up to eight to ten thousand dollars, that $25 bounty would be like $300 or $350 at least, now.
However, that huge bounty didn't stop the wolves from increasing to again, likely an all time high. Wolves were everywhere. They could be seen along roads. One fellow ran into a whole pack of them on a deeply snow plowed winter road and killed five.
When they started eating the ranchers cattle, the government got upset and instigated the largest, organized wolf poisoning program that was ever carried out in north america.
The time, the 1950s, coincided with the time that biologists got into managing wildlife in BC, and I suppose many other jurisdictitions in N.A.
The BC biologists quickly did away with all bounties, saying it was just a waste of money. In a few years the bounty system was done away with, in virtually every province or state.
So, yes, I think it was a backward step for Sask to re invent the bounty system.
9 coyotes is an awesome day no matter who you are. Thats pretty impressive, If I was you I'd forget the foxpro, you can call pretty good with handcalls it sounds like...Good shooting as well, I take it you killed everyone that was called in? CONGRATS!
Mike Oxbig
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Scarborough Ontario
You should be taking up a collection from local farmers! What a great haul! Good job!
The .204 is an amazing yote round. I have always been amazed by what it can do. I wish I had a use for it here cause i'd buy one in a heartbeat!
The .204 is an amazing yote round. I have always been amazed by what it can do. I wish I had a use for it here cause i'd buy one in a heartbeat!
