I have also noticed that the folks who have the most troubles with coyotes eating all their deer are the ones who never shoot a young buck, but kill a few does for the freezer every year, along with the other folks on their club.Thank you NCH, I've said this same thing in several threads recently. It's mostly about ther carrying capacity of the land.
Well something is eating my rabbits.
Love um or hate um they're here to stay. I usually get a crack at a couple a year. If I ever witness one killing a turkey or deer it'll get personal. I know to be on guard while Turkey calling. That's usually when I get a shot.... occasionally closer than I prefer.
Had them here since the late 1980’s
That was actually a really biased study that article was based on, I'm surprised it ever made it through peer review. The study fails to acknowledge that state agencies had to reduce doe harvest to combat declining fawn recruitment rates.
There is not a night at our deer land in Wilkes that we don't hear coyote's. Sometime's more than one pack. The deer populating is pretty good and we saw more fawns last fall then we have ever seen. We kill a few ,but we are bow hunting our place and its pretty hard to draw on a coyote even 20 feet up a tree. They can pick you off better than any critter i have ever seen. I'm sure they kill some deer, but i was thinking this last year about all the does and fawns we were seeing. I think the deer are adapting better to them. I don't like them but they are a pretty amazing how smart they are.
I think it was the early 90s when I heard of them around here. Somebody killed a black one while deer hunting and it was big talk.Saw my first one in 1988. Couldn't believe my eyes.