I $3000 coyote in South Carolina.

[Gpw]

Cool you got 3k. But every coyote you see shoot eat a bullet. Your only helping yourself and others

 

[bullmtn]

Pretty sure that means you have a 3k 6k budget for a new coyote gun!

Fixed it for you

 

[4090Sharps]

Really cool. I remember when they did the lifetime license bounty, but cash is even better.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I was turkey hunting early April when I saw a coyote chasing deer and made a little squeaky sound with my mouth to draw him in. Much to my surprise it worked. I don’t shoot coyotes deer hunting simply because I am deer hunting but since I saw this one chasing deer and the turkey hunting was very slow, I decided I would shoot him.

When I walked up to the coyote, I noticed he had tags in each year from SC DNR. Turns out since 2023 they have a $3000 bounty on coyotes with certain ear tags. I took him to a biologist nearby to verify the tags and about four weeks later South Carolina sent me $3000.

That kind of made up for the lousy turkey season. Not sure which states offer this, but South Carolina traps and releases about 16 a year throughout the state and offers the $3000 bounty.

So from now on out, I’ll be checking Mr. coyote to see if he has any jewelry in his ear.

I trapped probably 50 yotes over the last 2 seasons and shot probaby another dozen still no ear tag. It used to be a free lifetime license then they uppped the ante to 3k after covid.Congrats!

Did the biologist say how many tags have been turned in since '23...It was single digits last time I checked.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

South Carolina coyote hunters, upon learning of the $3,000 bounty on certain coyotes, be like:

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Check the harvest numbers we already putting in the work..

 

[mevert]

Wow 50 miles is crazy.

 

[philos]

Check the harvest numbers we already putting in the work..

Over 27K done in for 2025.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Over 27K done in for 2025.

SCDNR - Wildlife - Coyotes Biology and Control Program

Yep less than half have been turned in for the 3k check....@philos did you make the tag turn hit double digits?

If your paying the NR tag fee guess that get you a couple more years of tags..I dont know why NR folks pay that for turkeys...smh

 

[Hunthigh1]

I thought this was going to be a story where you accidentally shot a $3000 piece of equipment in the background or someone’s dog haha. Congrats.

My uncle had a story about shooting at a running coyote off the hood of a vehicle on his farm. He swung with the coyote and blew a hole in his new truck side mirror because of his stupidity paired with the scope above bore height.

 

[Sandhills]

I was turkey hunting early April when I saw a coyote chasing deer and made a little squeaky sound with my mouth to draw him in. Much to my surprise it worked. I don’t shoot coyotes deer hunting simply because I am deer hunting but since I saw this one chasing deer and the turkey hunting was very slow, I decided I would shoot him.

When I walked up to the coyote, I noticed he had tags in each year from SC DNR. Turns out since 2023 they have a $3000 bounty on coyotes with certain ear tags. I took him to a biologist nearby to verify the tags and about four weeks later South Carolina sent me $3000.

That kind of made up for the lousy turkey season. Not sure which states offer this, but South Carolina traps and releases about 16 a year throughout the state and offers the $3000 bounty.

So from now on out, I’ll be checking Mr. coyote to see if he has any jewelry in his ear.

Why not just cut their throat and save 3000 dollars?

Along with states that have a set coyote season, this makes zero sense.

 

[omicron1792]

Why not just cut their throat and save 3000 dollars?

Along with states that have a set coyote season, this makes zero sense.

What?

 

[Sandhills]

What?

Why catch a coyote, put an ear tag in it, and release it, and the pay 3 grand to the guy who shoots it when a 22 bullet would have saved the state around $2999.80.

Any state that has a set coyote season instead of year round shoot on site is stupid too.

 

[omicron1792]

Why catch a coyote, put an ear tag in it, and release it, and the pay 3 grand to the guy who shoots it when a 22 bullet would have saved the state around $2999.80.

Any state that has a set coyote season instead of year round shoot on site is stupid too.

The idea is people will go out and kill many many coyotes trying to get one with a tag. It’s not about killing the few tagged ones.

 

[Livedog]

Coyotes are interesting critters. We’ll never eradicate them. I’ve heard the experts say incentive programs will actually result in increasing the population. The females take a “census” of sorts with responses they get from calling. When numbers decline they increase their reproductive rate. And with hunting pressure, coyotes will disperse (unlike wolves which can and have been wiped out.)

I watch these YouTube guys kill piles of dogs on the same ranches. They never run out. And looking at the SC numbers from the past 20 years, there was a decline in harvest numbers after this incentive program was started (which also coincided with night hunting being added). But harvest numbers are on the rise again the last 4 years straight.

Crazy!

 

[Sandhills]

The idea is people will go out and kill many many coyotes trying to get one with a tag. It’s not about killing the few tagged ones.

I suppose, still seems counter productive.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I suppose, still seems counter productive.

Nobody says you can to come to SC. Honestly as many people that are moving here we could use a break.

 

[justin davis]

Coyotes are interesting critters. We’ll never eradicate them. I’ve heard the experts say incentive programs will actually result in increasing the population. The females take a “census” of sorts with responses they get from calling. When numbers decline they increase their reproductive rate. And with hunting pressure, coyotes will disperse (unlike wolves which can and have been wiped out.)

I watch these YouTube guys kill piles of dogs on the same ranches. They never run out. And looking at the SC numbers from the past 20 years, there was a decline in harvest numbers after this incentive program was started (which also coincided with night hunting being added). But harvest numbers are on the rise again the last 4 years straight.

Crazy!

Yea coyotes are super fascinating creatures. But the story of the more you kill the faster they reproduce is a story put out by anti hunters. Coyotes don’t take a count of how many are out there and they have pups based on that. Coyote population is based on food. If they have ample food and habitat then numbers go up.

 

[Livedog]

Coyotes don’t take a count of how many are out there and they have pups based on that.

If we’re being honest, who can know if this is really true? I think it’s just an interesting theory they’ve come up with to explain increasing population with increased hunting pressure. That is measurable. Litter sizes are measurable (which I believe whoever I listened to referenced, but it’s been a while). So I don’t completely discount it. And like many things, it’s a complex multi-variable problem.

 

[omicron1792]

If we’re being honest, who can know if this is really true? I think it’s just an interesting theory they’ve come up with to explain increasing population with increased hunting pressure. That is measurable. Litter sizes are measurable (which I believe whoever I listened to referenced, but it’s been a while). So I don’t completely discount it. And like many things, it’s a complex multi-variable problem.

I would say there is decreased pressure.

Definitely more influencers and specialized predator hunters. But my guess is way fewer average joes with a rifle in their truck that would pop any coyotes they saw.

 

[Sandhills]

Nobody says you can to come to SC. Honestly as many people that are moving here we could use a break.

Don't have any worry about me moving there. Couldn't pay me enough money to live east of the Missouri River.