Thread: Semi sucessful hunt

This past Saturday I took my daughter to the woods for the MO youth deer hunt. We sat on what looked like a very nice crossing. The deer have been using it so often they have ruts wore in the ground.

We never saw a deer. We saw about two dozen turkey, a pair of coyotes and more squirrels than I could fit in the bed of my pickup but no deer. She did put down a nice coyote. She has been wanting to shoot a coyote for several years now so this actually meant a lot to her even though it wasn't a deer.

She spotted a pair of them about 100 yards out nose to the ground tracking along one of the ruts made by the deer. She put her cross hairs on the lead coyote and they got to within 20 yards of her and she popped it with her 243 and it just collapsed in a heap.

We are planning going to go back out Sat morning for the regular rifle season and see if we can't get that deer but for now she's still smiling over the coyote.

that is a nice thing to do with the kids i took mine on youth hunts , and still take them when they have time ,but now they have to buy there on gear,they dont know how i ues to do it they know now why i stayed gone so much.

Thanks Ronnie,

I have one about to graduate high school and this one is a freshman in high school. It hit me a couple years ago that I better spend as much time with them as I can spare because it won't be long until they off on their own. Work load does not always allow but when I can I try to do as much of this stuff with them that I can.

Send your kids out here! We have coyotes we need to get rid of!

Maybe no deer, but priceless time with the dear. 'Hope you get much more quality time like that.

great job.hate yotes.need her down this way to kill some.

Originally Posted by buckeye

great job.hate yotes.need her down this way to kill some.

Though it's probably a load of fun to blow those little f***ers away, it actually doesn't help. At least according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist I was talking to a few years back. Coyotes actually breed faster in areas where they are actively hunted and trapped, so hunting has almost no long term impact. So far the only successful eradication effort has been setting traps that blast a contraceptive into the coyote's mouth. It keeps them from reproducing, but it's expensive as hell. Unfortunately, ranchers and farmers still think that shooting them is all that's necessary, but it hardly makes an impact on the population. I figure the hunting will at the very least make them a lot more frightened of Humans, which I think is a very good thing.

I had one yipping out back one night back in September. By the time I was awake enough to figure out where he was he'd shut up. I got my clothes ready and a gun for the next night, but he didn't come back. :-(

they had bounty's on them years ago.it did some good but they come back fast.
but they only good yote is a dead yote.

They're thick around here but so are the deer. That's interesting about their reaction to hunting pressure. There are four things I shoot on sight when in the woods; coyotes, feral hogs, armadillos, and anything big enough to eat me.

Ray

Originally Posted by RayCover

armadillos,

Armadillos!?!?!? Whatever for?