Just going through the 2012 Manitoba Hunting Regs and I come across the Coyote Hunting Regulations. The province is overrun with these varmints but according to the regs you can only hunt them in season (Aug.27-Feb.28),and your bag limit is 1(one) coyote. How stupid is that? I wonder what brain dead civil servant came up with this!
Stupid Coyote Hunting Regs
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In Nova Scotia you can only hunt yotes with a shotgun loaded with shot from March 31 untill the opening of big game season in the fall. Professional trappers do get a $20. bounty though. And no hunting on Sundays. The yotes are in church and protected on Sunday?
LuckyStrike
CGN Regular
- Location
- Vancouver Island
In Saskatchewan (where there is also an overabundance of those mangey vermin)
.... Non residents are NOT permitted to shoot them....
Saving game for residents?
.... Non residents are NOT permitted to shoot them....
Saving game for residents?
I`m starting to love Saskatchewan more and more after reading certain topics on this site!!! To read topics about "where can I shoot my gun" to "bag limits on coyotes". I live in a city of roughly 10,000 people. I can drive literally any direction out of the city and test a firearm. As for coyote, they live in fear lol.
bearkilr
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
Not quite. There's only been a dedicated coyote season for the past 3 years or so, before that they were under trapping regulations only since they're considered a furbearer. Wolves are different, they've always been under trapping regulations and big game regulations.
The $5 trappers license and no closure regulation is for open area only. In the areas which are RTL, you need an RTL trappers license and those are not handed out to just anyone, you have to apply to get an RTL authorization and belong to that areas Trappers Association. AFAIK, there are a limited number of RTL licenses given out depending on the size of the area.
In open area zones, there's no limit on beaver, coyote, raccoon and wolf(except Area 2A around Riding Mtn Park-closed for wolf) and no closure, when you have a trapping license.
Regulations here:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/trapping/pdf/trapping_guide_2011_12_final.pdf
If you do your coyote/wolf hunting in open area trapping zones, you're definitely better off getting a trapping license, as you need an unused big game tag to take advantage of shooting coyotes or wolves under the hunting regulation if there's an open big game season in that area.
Anyone confused yet?
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You're right and the rest of the year with a rifle and no bag limit.
That's what I can't understand either, I live in Bradford, Ontario
And for an animal that's not native and is overrunning residential
Areas (mom and dad had to install barb wire fencing to
Protect their little poodles) they should exist in the
Same category as an Asian Beatle, the "frankenfish", American crow,
Etc
My mom went to a town meeting about the coyote problem in her town (aurora)
And the mnr told her its because people shoot them and as a response they have bigger litters because of the population decrease. They pretty much blamed
American hunters for the problem she has.
She told me that, and my response was then ill shoot twice as many next year
What are you talking about coyotes are not native in North York? Haha they're not overrunning the resdential areas. Builders are slappin up subdivisions in their habitat.
However, can't get in the way of progress. If shooting coyotes is doing our part then there's no reason we can't enjoy it. Have at it, an good luck this winter.
Not true, you can hunt yotes year round with no bag limit, it is in the regs under "Other Harvestable Wildlife"
Also the shotgun loaded with shot is only when you are hunting yotes during big game season without a big game tag, if outside of big game season its any center-fire, rimfire or muzzle loaded rifle or shotgun with slugs or ball. However if you have a big game tag you can also hunt yotes with any big game approved firearm while in that season.
We have it pretty good in NS with the exception of hunting on Sundays. Shoot all you want, just don't hunt.
Is this sarcasm? cant tell. Wolves are native to Canada, the Coyote came from the way way down south, and the population exploded, and moved increasingly north, and ended up in Ontario around the 1970's. They pushed the wolf population north, crossbred with them and stole that habitat from them.
That's how i understand it, correct me if i'm wrong! I just don't feel they should exist in the hunting regulations at all. The MNR told my mom they would take care of the problem coyotes that become unafraid of people, etc like what was happening in oakville. Seems to me thats like someone whom suffered a zombie bite, they are going to turn into a problem coyote eventually because in places like downtown toronto, where theres a higher density of coyotes due to the abundence of food supplies, they are not being hunted at all, and will eventually lose all fear of humans from having no negative experiences with humans at all. it's just a matter of when.
In Saskatchewan (where there is also an overabundance of those mangey vermin)
.... Non residents are NOT permitted to shoot them....
Saving game for residents?
I am not sure about an "overabundance" of them around here. Sure you see the odd one, but it's not like they are every were. I think most people who see coyotes see the same ones in the same spots and assume they are different coyotes thus thinking there is an overabundance of them....
