HONEST QUESTION: RE: Shooting a Coyote while you're on a sit for Deer...

[TheGDog]

You read many folks talking about taking out a Coyote when they happen to come thru where you might be posted-up at on a sit for deer.

My Question is... wouldn't this possibly blow that paticular spot out such that you'd have to move?

My thinking was... first there's the shot noise, I have to imagine they'd learn to stay away from gunshot noise.

Secondly, and I've seen this first hand for myself, when I had a bloody rabbit at my feet... as I watched a MuleDeer doe feed very near to me in full concealment gear... it wasn't until she finally meander to directly behind me where my wind was blowing to that she smelled the Rabbit blood and immediately vacated the area.

So it got me to thinking if she can smell that rabbit blood and especially their stomach matter, of course.. I'm figuring ANYTIME they'd smell blood in an area.. wouldn't they just be like "Whoops! I'm Out!" ???

Ya know, like if you shot a coyote, there'd undoubtedly be some blood splatter or other tissues that'd litter the area.. so... wouldn't that kill your chances of having a buck come in??

-G

 

[Jacob Lake]

She may have smelled you, regardless of the rabbit blood. We’ve almost always gone by, regardless of what you’re hunting, when you see a coyote, it’s now a coyote hunt.


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[mtg]

Look up fawn mortality by yotes… there is quite a bit of information out there if you will look for it. Yes, I shoot them. I’ve taken them out with a 270, 7-08. 12ga, 22-250, and 22lr

 

[coyotekilla]

Ive shot several coyotes at night with deer in the field, 1 in particular the bullet was less than 10' from the deer, deer stayed put. Another i hammered a coyote with a 6.5 prc at night, I dog ran 50 yds and died, deer looked at it, but didn't pay it any mind. Also bucks care way less about coyotes than younger does. Just my observations from hunting coyotes and seeing several hundred deer a week while doing it. Sometimes 150 a night.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I have shot yotes and had WT step over them on a trail an hour later...Farmer I hunt on has one hard and fast rule if you hunt his land...yotes and hogs are to be shot on sight.

 

[TheGDog]

Hrmm... I wonder if it changes when you're talking about a more heavily-pressured area?

 

[RockAndSage]

Since we're talking mule deer, I'll shoot coyotes no problem during summer scouting, but wouldn't ever shoot one during a tag's season around here (NV). Opportunities for good muleys are too low, season's too short, I'm looking for specific bucks I've scouted up before, etc, and don't want to alert anything to there being an abnormal presence in their neighborhood.

I would, however, absolutely make an exception for a cougar (always have a tag on me, year-round, even just out and about), or if I got into wolves in a different state. But that means also being consciously willing to make the trade-off of losing out on an opportunity for a buck for a day or two in that area. That would be worth it, unless I know there's a monster buck around. But no coyote's worth losing a buck over, in rifle season.

 

[matty_pesto]

Blood on the arrow wasn't even dry before she got her revenge.

 

[Habitat#1]

I do with a bow,in fact shot 3 as a pack of 5 came through one morning.Shot 2 in a minute and then about 15 min late one back and got him. Also shoot bobcats after season opens

 

[Cahunter805]

I have shot a coyote on a trail and minutes later walk the trail a few hundred yards and have deer feeding right there.

I will shoot a coyote any chance I can. Coyotes take out a good number of fawns every year.

 

[RockAndSage]

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Blood on the arrow wasn't even dry before she got her revenge.

That photo is freakin' awesome...

 

[TheGDog]

Well Alrighty Then! Seems like we've put that Question "To Bed" then!

Thank you everyone.

Just so you understand the mindset I'm coming from in asking the question here... the first 3 I got in D15... I have soo very few opportunities where they (a buck) actually pass by (Like I might have to be on a sit.. sun-up to sun-down, like A LOT of days), that I was feeling unwilling to risk it by shooting at a yote that came thru.

Also since it's usually super-uber silent, dead-quiet in tha spot, and the "Potato Chips" there are Loud as Heck too. So there's also the nevrousness about all the noise/commotion it'd invoke as well.

So I was extremely hesitant about taking 'em out and potentially screwing that spot over.

Thx again!

 

[kpk]

it wasn't until she finally meander to directly behind me where my wind was blowing to that she smelled the Rabbit blood and immediately vacated the area.

I think it's highly unlikely she vacated due to rabbit blood. Lots of deer will feed right by a fresh gut pile without caution. She smelled you.