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

[doc88]

Coyotes got to go. I'll always shoot one if I can while deer hunting unless mister big is standing there. I remember I put one of my sons in a stand in our back field. When I picked him up there lay 2 coyotes, which he shot first, and a 10 point. True Story.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Was hunting yesterday buddy shot a yote 10 min before sunrise...texted me should I move...I said nope. He saw deer all morning, he even missed a decent buck...lol

 

[TheGrayRider]

Coyote - shoot it.
Wild pig - shoot it.
Mountain lion (if legal) - shoot it.
Wolf (if legal) - shoot it.
Jackal (if hunting in Africa) - shoot it.
Red river hog (Africa) - shoot it.

The list continues…

 

[rookieforever33]

I shot a coyote with my crossbow as a doe was looking at it, she went back to feeding for ten more minutes. Throughout the day 8 more deer came into that foodplot, not all even payed attention to it, the few that did chilled out after they realized it was dead.

 

[TSAMP]

Wonder if it's because they smelled where the rubber of the soles of your boots touched the ground/grasses and such?

I dont think so. Im not sure ive ever seen a deer pick up my ground scent while in rubber boots.
I look at it just like my deer decoy. If I put it in a low visibility area and they are suprised by it. It pisses them off. If they can see it a ways off they will feed right on by it.

 

[freezerfull]

I always shoot when I get the opportunity and don’t worry about spooking deer. The only time I would deviate is if I knew exactly where a buck I wanted to harvest was and/or had eyes on him and was making a play.

Haven’t been out much this year but the last 3 times I shot or shot at yotes late last fall I almost immediately had a deer encounter after.

First was a coyote pestering some muley does and a forky. They seemed pretty please it was dead.

My coyote shooting got a 150 ish muley out of his bed and standing broadside at 300 ish, I didn’t know he was there prior and I did pass on the buck.

Then the last coyote I shot last fall at about 515 yards. 5 minutes later I had a very nice cruising 140ish whitetail walked right by him, paused and stared at his carcass for at least a minute. I was tagged out on my buck tag and looking for a wt doe on a second tag at that point. He then went back to cruising, and crested a rise heading towards a highway pullout about 1/2 mile a way. 5 minutes later a distant shot, I assumed at that point he was no longer with us