I $3000 coyote in South Carolina.

[WannaBeRambo]

I'm not getting this. So they want to get rid of the coyotes, they trap them, tag them and set them free? Why don't they just shoot them? Unless they are trying to encourage more people to hunt them? Why don't they trap more of them and kill them? Sounds a little backwards.

Florida has done something similar (no money though) tracking pythons. They radio tag a female and follow her around. They want to know their patterns so it’s easier to find their preferred habitats.
I think they even created a fake rabbit that once eaten sent gps tracking location. Sorry if I am a little off base on specifics, but fundamentally true.

 

[justin davis]

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.

There are actually studies out there that show that it’s not true. And talk to professional trappers whose job is to kill coyotes for the government. They will tell you it’s untrue.

Population has more to do with availability of food. Coyote numbers often fluctuate with rodent populations. That seems to have the greatest effect on numbers.

Coyotes breed and have 1 litter per year. Think about their theory. It doesn’t make sense. Coyotes can’t adjust litter size whenever they want.

So think about it a female is bred and she does a howl and if she can check out many are out there and then changes her litter size based on if she heard coyotes? What happens when she didn’t hear any coyotes respond even though there were coyotes around.

It’s idiotic. It was an idea spread by anti hunters. The real thing is coyotes have 1 litter a year. When coyotes are killed in those areas there are less coyotes in the area simple as that. Often times new coyotes will show up back in that area, because there is an empty void. It doesn’t mean that they are changing their litters to account for it.

 

[Sandhills]

There are actually studies out there that show that it’s not true. And talk to professional trappers whose job is to kill coyotes for the government. They will tell you it’s untrue.

Population has more to do with availability of food. Coyote numbers often fluctuate with rodent populations. That seems to have the greatest effect on numbers.

Coyotes breed and have 1 litter per year. Think about their theory. It doesn’t make sense. Coyotes can’t adjust litter size whenever they want.

So think about it a female is bred and she does a howl and if she can check out many are out there and then changes her litter size based on if she heard coyotes? What happens when she didn’t hear any coyotes respond even though there were coyotes around.

It’s idiotic. It was an idea spread by anti hunters. The real thing is coyotes have 1 litter a year. When coyotes are killed in those areas there are less coyotes in the area simple as that. Often times new coyotes will show up back in that area, because there is an empty void. It doesn’t mean that they are changing their litters to account for it.

The myth of killing coyotes makes more and the one about possums and ticks both need to go away

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I don't care if true or not my goal trapping yotes is to help turkey pults and fawns get thru the spring...If it does make more yotes I will deal with them next trapping season. I trap all private no public, predator mgt it part of the overall conservation of the ag farms. It makes a difference in turkey and deer numbers on those farms.

 

[Nine Banger]

But my guess is way fewer average joes with a rifle in their truck that would pop any coyotes they saw.

Most coyote sighting stories you hear of in SC are from deer hunters and they did not shoot because they think it will "ruin" their main objective to harvest a deer.

I've met the trapper that catches the coyotes for this program. They are captured in the middle part of the state and released in the middle to upstate regions.

Predator hunters are few and far between here for various reasons.

The intent of the program is to get deer hunters to start shooting.

 

[omicron1792]

Most coyote sighting stories you hear of in SC are from deer hunters and they did not shoot because they think it will "ruin" their main objective to harvest a deer.

I've met the trapper that catches the coyotes for this program. They are captured in the middle part of the state and released in the middle to upstate regions.

Predator hunters are few and far between here for various reasons.

I can see that. Now with suppressors I shoot any I see at any time!

 

[Nine Banger]

I can see that. Now with suppressors I shoot any I see at any time!

Yeah; suppressors are just starting to get around here. Most of the guys in the woods here are pathologically cheap.

 

[Sandhills]

Most coyote sighting stories you hear of in SC are from deer hunters and they did not shoot because they think it will "ruin" their main objective to harvest a deer.

I've met the trapper that catches the coyotes for this program. They are captured in the middle part of the state and released in the middle to upstate regions.

Predator hunters are few and far between here for various reasons.

The intent of the program is to get deer hunters to start shooting.

I've always been told no matter what you're doing, when you see a coyote you're coyote huntin.

 

[Nine Banger]

I've always been told no matter what you're doing, when you see a coyote you're coyote huntin.

Ironically, we have crap tons of deer here.

The coyote is a trophy for day hunters.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Most coyote sighting stories you hear of in SC are from deer hunters and they did not shoot because they think it will "ruin" their main objective to harvest a deer.

I've met the trapper that catches the coyotes for this program. They are captured in the middle part of the state and released in the middle to upstate regions.

Predator hunters are few and far between here for various reasons.

The intent of the program is to get deer hunters to start shooting.

I have had deer walk over dead yotes I have shot earlier in day.

 

[philos]

I have had deer walk over dead yotes I have shot earlier in day.

Funny you posted this-buddy of mine missed a chance at a decent buck due to a wounded coyote. He shot the coyote and thought it was dead and several minutes later a buck was walking by the coyote and the coyote started struggling to get up, which scared the crap out of the buck before my buddy could get the buck in his sights.

Crazy stuff happens.

 

[Livedog]

@justin davis I appreciate the counter perspective man. I know enough to know I don’t know much. I prob listen to too many podcasts.

The shoot a coyote during a deer hunt thing…I’ve wrestled with that one in the past. I tend to shoot them. Love hearing these stories!