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All of this talk about low deer numbers and overpopulation of coyotes got me thinking. Are there really as many coyotes out as we think? I have been hunting for 20 years. I have hunted in alleghany, Ashe, Alexander, buncombe, Catawba, Chatham, McDowell Granville Stokes Vance and Wilkes counties. I have been running trail cameras since 2003. On average I hunt 35 days a year, small game hunt another 10 days and spend another 30-40 scouting and working my leases. Not to mention all the time I spend camping and hiking. I keep extensive journals of my hunting experiences. In 20 years I have never seen a coyote while deer hunting. In fact, I have only seen 2 coyotes while engaged in a hunting activity. I did not get a coyote on trail camera until 2010. In total, I have less than 50 pictures of coyotes on camera. A lot of them showed up in Wilkes when we had our die off. They scavenged on the dead deer. I got 3 pictures of coyotes this year and the last one was in September. I have 12 trail cameras in the woods right now in 3 different counties. If coyotes are so abundant, then why are we not seeing more of them?
how do we know that we have not already got to equilibrium. maybe the coyote population has peaked as well as the deer?
I dont know just asking.
Coyotes are tough to kill and it is equally tough to control there population last year I killed 67 coyotes and there are still plenty of coyotes on the same 1000 acre farm there would need to be a bunch more trappers and a bunch more hunters to even start to control the population
I'm located in Harnett county but coyote hunt all over eastern NC
How do you hunt/kill coyotes....call them in with electronic/mouth call?I'm located in Harnett county but coyote hunt all over eastern NC
I went out to look around and didn't see one deer track or dog track, but I didn't go to all the property. I suspect the deer are herded up at left over corn piles?This post was stated a little over 2 years ago and ask are they really that many yotes around?
I ask how many of y'all that got snow over the weekend used this as a chance to canvas the area for yote tracks? I did and I didn't have any problems finding that I have a yote problem. I walked on two different tracts miles apart, within 5 minutes on each I found multiple sets of tracks (some of the tracks different sizes) that appeared to be working cover where I found deer beds. I can't help but think these were packs of yotes targeting deer. I have seen yotes hunting deer, grown deer. Once I heard them when they caught the deer. Nope, I was not about to walk toward that sound in the dark.
Got a trapper coming...will show him area and see what he says....may need to stay away till get his advice....hopefully he can clean it out...will see.Winnie 70, I would have to put a camera on that den for a while, then find some dynamite.
Coyotes are tough to kill and it is equally tough to control there population last year I killed 67 coyotes and there are still plenty of coyotes on the same 1000 acre farm there would need to be a bunch more trappers and a bunch more hunters to even start to control the population
Darkthirty, what do you mean "live market on coyotes"....selling them to be placed in a pin and run with dogs...like running fox? Hope didn't ask a stupid question.If anyone thinks your going to affect the coyote populations by "hunting" them. Your wrong. Personally, I've hunted in areas that had extremely high coyote populations but also has high deer and turkey densities. Been like that for years upon years. I guess I'm kinda in-different on it. I'll shoot'em if I see'em but not because I think I'm doing anything beneficial. Just another legal opportunity to pull the trigger.
If you want to hurt the population. Get a good trapper. Not a newbie, not a weekend warrior. I mean a d@mn good trapper. And stay on'em year round. Anyone else and all your gonna do more than likely is educate about 1/3 to 1/2 of the coyotes. You can really work on the populations like that. If serious management and control is your goal, I think your wasting your time shooting them. Yeah, it's fun, but your not really accomplishing anything.
While we're at it. I'm all for every manner of trapping and supporting hobbies and making money. But until the live market on coyotes is shut down, there's always going to be a $h!tload of coyotes in this state.
Darkthirty, what do you mean "live market on coyotes"....selling them to be placed in a pin and run with dogs...like running fox? Hope didn't ask a stupid question.
How is this leading to more coyotes...they get out of pins, eventually turned loose, until "live market shut, there going to be ...load in this state"....explain? You lost me here...and may be dumb question.Yes, he's referring to fox pens.
The best thing to help a prey species survive is to improve the habitat to give them not only food, but escape and cover and concealment options.
Another way to help fawn survivability is to get the buck:doe ratio fairly even so most fawns are born at roughly the same time. The theory says you then get a short period of "prey saturation", sacrificing a few for the good of the many, rather than trickling the fawns out only to have them mostly all killed a few days apart over time. Of course, if the predators are taking down adults, that might not matter much.
Fox pens: In a legal operation only coyotes and foxes legally trapped in NC can be bought by licensed fox pen operators. This equals no net gain of coyotes in NC. Most pen owners work hard at keeping coyotes in the pen, it is not advantageous to spend money and not try and secure your investment. Plus, coyotes are feed in these pens and coyotes have food source readily available. There is no need for them to escape and most don't. Heck, I have even seen a fair amount of rabbits and deer in training pens with coyotes and foxes, so I'm positive the coyotes are not hungry. Actually, I have seen a deer run coyotes off a feeder in a pen.
Importing coyotes across state lines is a violation of the Lacey Act.