I know most of us hunt yotes in the winter. Does anyone out west (CA, NV, OR, NM, AZ) hunt in the summer? What works well for you?
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If you really want to kill coyotes in So Cal get a crossbow and be sneaky !, urban pet munchers are fair game as far as I'm concerned , for those of us in the real west the only good coyote is a dead coyote regardless of the time of year . If pelts are what you are after be sneaky and concentrate on the urban vermin , otherwise help out the game animals and KILL anything with fangs or claws at every opportunity !
Or good 22 or 25 cal pellet rifle.
I really don't care what version of the universe you subscribe too, the basic of it all is the predator prey relationship, and the coyote seems to be natures built in safe guard. I don't give a fuck what they tried, those crafty little bastards shrugged it off, and maintained population. So for you opportunists driving down the road and pretending you hit the coyote you shot at; and that somehow helped control the population, and "helped" the game. LOL.
I have worked cattle and calves plenty in my life, never seen a calf eaten by a coyote that I didn't think was going to die anyway. Couldn't say which came first on any of them. All you city slickers keep it up though. LOL.
Right now with pelts worth money I shoot all I can, Nov, Dec, Jan sometimes still couple good ones in Feb, but usually they are bluing by then. Nobody pays good money for summer hides, that I know of anyway. I bet Cali hides are shit year around anyway. Personally I like the coyotes better than chihuahuas, feral cats, and rats, and Californians.
Of course if a theoretical bunch of guys couldn't understand the difference between tree hugging fuckin hippies and wildlife conservation and management. Then I wouldn't expect them to understand anything else I said, or want know anything I have learned; hunting furs all my life.
Afraid you are already probably too late to kill the mother and starve the pups though, maybe next year try to get them in April or May, if starving puppies is what gets your jollies off.
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I left Calimexifornia 23 years ago and now concentrate on predators here in New Mexico , I agree their is no way to exterminate them at all . I set snares and call on a few properties that raise sheep down south and cattle close to where I live . On any given day you can always find scat and tracks in areas you would have sworn you cleaned out . I've seen plenty of calves that were depredated and witnessed packs of coyotes chasing Does to get them to drop fawns prematurely . I shoot them at every opportunity and trap from December through March depending on the weather for pelts , lot's of nice Bobcats around here also and much more profitable !
I look at predators as a resource and try to do what I can to give the dwindling Deer herds a better chance
im in n new mexico, i see them running around my neighborhood all the time. We are waiting for the wind to die down and going to give it a nvg try. When i first moved here someone called animal control on me because they thought my heeler was a yote. He is kinda a asshole so...
Kill em all
any time , any day
any size , any age
as many as you can
Fawn sounds are great in the summer. Even if you don't kill it makes the yote's nervous to go looking for noisy fawns.
Only other thing I do is stay within a half mile of water vs in winter I hunt anywhere. They hit water 3x more often in the summer here, so increases your odds being closer.