Shooting Wolves

[Warren]

Bill,

Either our deer are deef, or they can't hear the horn over the headlights  :D :D :D    They never seem to move until you come close to a complete stop.  I used to joke about them being Osama Bin Whitetail and the bambi suicide squad due to the large number that jump in front of cars around here.   Until a friend was killed in an deer/vehicle accident a couple years ago.... :( :( :(    Not so funny now...

Warren

[OneWithWood]

We don't have any wolves here but we do have a lot of coyotes.  I second the opinion that most of the damage done to lovestock and deer is more the work of dogs, both feral and domestic, than the coyotes.  Their howling at night does wake me up on occasion.  I just wish they would take on the dogs.

[stonebroke]

We don't have any wolves here but we do have a lot of coyotes. I second the opinion that most of the damage done to lovestock and deer is more the work of dogs, both feral and domestic, than the coyotes. Their howling at night does wake me up on occasion. I just wish they would take on the dogs.

WE used to have a lot of dogs running around until the coyotes( red wolves) came around. Now we have none!!! They all got eaten. Some of the neighors dogs also. Even some calves whose mothers were too stupid to protect them.

Stonebroke

[isawlogs]

 I am going to ask another what's it question .... :-\    what a feral dog ....  ???

[ellmoe]

   That's a domestic animal (dog in this case) gone wild.
Mark

[Bill Johnson]

A British newspaper (of all places) report that the people of Kenora have been asked to stop feeding deer as they are 'luring' wolves closer to town. The overseas paper reports,

Wolves are normally very shy, but lured by the prospect of fattened deer meat they have regularly been spotted inside the city limits of Kenora in Ontario.

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Maybe they should ship some down out to SD to help with his nuisance moose problems. :D

[farmerdoug]

The coyotes love to eat red fox too. :  The grey ones just run up a tree to escape the yotes. 8)

Farmerdoug

[Norm]

The coyotes are very hard on the sheep ranchers here. Most have gone to putting guard lamas or dogs in the herds but still lose some. I don't think they're hurting the deer population much, I lost all of my new sugar maples in the back yard to them.

[jon12345]

I'd rather lose a pet kitty to a coyote than a bunch of trees to a deer  >:(  It takes years to grow a tree.    :-\

[slewpumper]

 Here in Southern Minnesota there is getting to be more and more coyotes. My dad and several of his buddies are retired and hunt them all winter long. They spot and stalk or just walk sections to locate them. The problem with the coyotes around here is they are finding more and more that have mange. Some of them are so bad you can't believe they can make it through the winter from lack of fur. My Dad skins most that he feels are worth something and sends them up to North American Fur Exchange. He got $72 for one of them but usually averages about $20 apiece. The count so far this year is 77, last year they shot 80 something. Not bad for some old farts. Better watch what I say I'm 40 and my Dad is 67 and I think he could walk circles around me in the snow.
I have been feeding the deer at the neighber ladys house. She has 200 acres she lets me hunt on. I have been hunting for shed horns behind her house with no luck. Stopped there yesterday to plow her drive and she showed me the shed she picked up in her back yard. Beautiful 5 on a side. If the other side matched I would say about a 150 inch whitetail. That is the third shed she has found to my zero and here is the kicker, she is 87 years old.

[beenthere]

.........150 inch...... ??? ???

or score 150 ?

Dat lady prolly finds them cause she isn't like us, sittin in front a da 'puter....... ;D

[Woodcarver]

A cousin of mine shot a coyote in his back yard a couple of weeks ago.  He had just showered and was standing at the bathroom sink brushing his teeth when he looked out the bathroom window and spotted the coyote at the edge of the woods about 50 yards from his house.

He promptly threw his toothbrush in the sink, ran to his den, grabbed his .223 and ran out into the backyard and shot the coyote. His wife said that she was glad there was no one around to see this madman running back and forth through their house carrying a rifle, stark naked and foaming at the mouth. The 'yote must have been a little startled by the spectacle, too, to hang around long enough to be shot.  :D :D     

[Norm]

That's funny.. :D

But not unusual, few weeks ago I woke up to hear them almost in our back yard. I like to keep them honest and on their toes if they feel too comfortable near the house. I went out with the a-3 and unloaded what was left in the clip. Thought to myself thank goodness we have no close neighbors to see that. ;D

[stonebroke]

Thats good to keep them on they toes and onstill a little fear of man in them. Around here they stalk the hunters in the fall.

Stonebroke

[BW_Williams]

I didn't read all 4 pages, but around here, it's SSS.  BWW

[isawlogs]

  OK .. BW   whats the  SSS stand for ...  : ???

[stonebroke]

here's a guess. Shoot ,shovel and shut up. The ranchers favorite motto.

Stonebroke

[isawlogs]

   Thanks ... sure works for me ...   

[stonebroke]

It's like Vegas, What goes on here stays here. So no one is the wiser.

Stonebroke

[beenthere]

I resemble dat (SSS), but I will admit to unloadin on hickory limbs.......... ;D

[SwampDonkey]

The coyotes love to eat red fox too. :  The grey ones just run up a tree to escape the yotes. 8)

Farmerdoug

We have no shortage of red fox, but I do agree the coyotes give them a hard time. There competing for the same food, mostly rodents. Although, coyotes do take some deer as we know. Both coyotes and white tails are not even native to this area since less than 100 years ago. I don't often see a deer track in my area in the winter. I can go to areas not far away where they yard up. In the summer a group of 3 or 4 is a site here, other places 20-50 in farm fields can be counted because the locals feed them. You go any distance away from the river up Tobique and there isn't a deer track in winter. Deer migrate here as well from the heads of rivers, down stream in the winter months, then back in summer. Most of the mature softwoods have been harvested, and that killed more deer by far than the coyote population could ever eat. Not to mention the poaching going on in some regions. Deer have an easier time in southern NB because of milder winters and not as much snow, if any at all. Fishing with my grandfather on a lot of remote lakes. You couldn't walk hardly in some of the boreal under growth if it weren't for deer paths to follow along the shore lines. It would certainly play you out before you got back to the pickup. ;D

[Tim L]

My wife laughs at me for not putting screen on the bathroom window ,but it's the best shootin place in the house !

[olyman]

  I trap coons all summer and fall in live traps to protect the sweet corn.  It is a losing battle sometimes though.  I seen coyotes several times after I shot a coon.                  way to protect sweet corn--put up two electric fence wires--one 4 in off the ground--one 11 in off ground--with the fenceposts inside the wire--toward the corn--cause friend that taught me this--had coon break down other stalks against the fence to short it out--so have other corn stalks out of the way---

[Furby]

Anyone hear about the coyote that walked into a Quizno's in downtown Chicago the other day?
Got itself stuck in a display cooler. :D

[Mooseherder]

Yup, saw that on the TV. He was happy till they drug him out with the dog catcher noose. Wonder what they did with him?