How Much Venison Are Coyotes Eating? - NDA
The Tri-State Coyote Project shined new light on coyote travels, survival, diet, and what hunters can do to reduce their predatory impact on deer.
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Hunting & Fishing Interesting article on coyote food sources
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In the northeast it’s a great thing. Deer are way way over populated. Lyme, Rocky Mountain, and now lone star ticks (which make you allergic to red meat and pork). Not to mention all the car crashes/injuries/deaths.
Too many lazy hunters and no hunting zones.
Too many lazy hunters and no hunting zones.
Lazy hunters lol. Starting to seem like that’s all that’s left anymore. Us Hunting your ass off hunters are the minority these days that’s for sure.
I don’t even mean hunt your ass off or your lazy.
I mean they drive pickups out into the field. Then unload 4 wheelers and drive into the woods. I’ve seen them ride to a stand sit in in for 15-30 mins then go to the next stand. And so on.
Then complain “there’s no deer”
Idiots and lazy
Then you have the trophy hunters who are smart but only shoot monaters
Those 2 make up most hunters in this area. Equals out of control deer pops. Esp when you add women that watch Bambi too much and won’t allow any hunting.
I mean they drive pickups out into the field. Then unload 4 wheelers and drive into the woods. I’ve seen them ride to a stand sit in in for 15-30 mins then go to the next stand. And so on.
Then complain “there’s no deer”
Idiots and lazy
Then you have the trophy hunters who are smart but only shoot monaters
Those 2 make up most hunters in this area. Equals out of control deer pops. Esp when you add women that watch Bambi too much and won’t allow any hunting.
I wonder how that article relates to the south. Specifically south Texas since we also have Javelinas which are very small and an easy snack I would assume.
I've already seen coyotes feeding on them as well as on deer corn. What I have not seen, is a coyote feeding on deer. I'm not saying they don't it, I've seen it on trail cameras, just never in person.
From my years of hunting though, I've noticed deer react quickly to the presence of a coyote and take off in a heartbeat. Same thing could be said for bobcats. This only strengthens the argument that (mature) deer recognize coyotes as a huge threat. Most likely because coyotes snack on them lol.
Interesting article...
I've already seen coyotes feeding on them as well as on deer corn. What I have not seen, is a coyote feeding on deer. I'm not saying they don't it, I've seen it on trail cameras, just never in person.
From my years of hunting though, I've noticed deer react quickly to the presence of a coyote and take off in a heartbeat. Same thing could be said for bobcats. This only strengthens the argument that (mature) deer recognize coyotes as a huge threat. Most likely because coyotes snack on them lol.
Interesting article...
That's most of the hunting here in South Texas though. People don't have thousands or acres of public land to go hike/hunt. We have 100 acre ranches, etc. People drive from their house to their ranch and park their truck under the deer stand and then sit in the stand for a few hours. Others will use ATVs like you mentioned.
Me personally, I hate the idea of driving around and prefer to walk the whole ranch. I get to see and spot a hell of a lot more deer and wildlife activity on foot than I ever would from a truck. It's also enjoyable to simply walk the ranch and enjoy nature.
We had a 15,000 acre deer lease two seasons ago. I won't lie, we did travel to our stands (many times, our hunting spot was not a stand but an area in the brush we found to have potential) by ATV. Because the ranch was huge, it had huge huge fields where you could see as far as the eye could see. We did happen to spot many deer that way without spooking. Would this put me in the lazy hunter category lmfao???
Here in Missouri....recently off one of our cameras ...and we got decent sized deer....
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Wow, it looks like the hind legs have already been bloodied in that pic. Is that what you think from the original? Coloring makes it difficult for me to say for sure or if that is just lighting.
lol, wow, cool pic. I have one on a computer or drive somewhere of a coyote with a whole dead fawn in its mouth. I'll have to try and track that down.
Yeah those legs are chewed up....I'm sure he didnt make it much farther ...we think it was a older buck that neighbor had found sheds for....
I see coyotes chase deer regularly, and deer always run when they see a coyote where I hunt, even if the coyote is dead. Even more often than that, I see the deer run when pigs show up. I have also seen pigs chase the coyotes away. I shoot way more pigs than coyotes, that article makes me think I need to work on balancing that a bit.
I spend a lot of time sitting and watching for deer. I have access to about ~100 acres, and it so thick, I have little success stalking up on deer. There are so few places that I can see more than 10-15 yards they usually hear me before I see them. My working time has been spent cutting clearings so I can see more, rather than hunting. I’m kind of on the border of South Tx plains and the hill country, about 8 miles North of Hondo.
Most of the animals I see are in the clearings. Each one of my big ones are 500 yards long.
I spend a lot of time sitting and watching for deer. I have access to about ~100 acres, and it so thick, I have little success stalking up on deer. There are so few places that I can see more than 10-15 yards they usually hear me before I see them. My working time has been spent cutting clearings so I can see more, rather than hunting. I’m kind of on the border of South Tx plains and the hill country, about 8 miles North of Hondo.
Most of the animals I see are in the clearings. Each one of my big ones are 500 yards long.
When dogs kill something very large they chase it and knaw on the legs until it goes down. Then they kill it. It is a behavior I have seen on video with wolves and coyotes, and in real life with stray dogs killing full grown cattle. Dogs have great stamina and they basically herd the prey until it gets tired and collapses.
