Re: Why shoot coyotes?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SingleShot85</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I currently have a piece of property, just a hobby farm of 10K acres, and we don't have any yotes. </div></div>
Singleshot85,
OOOOH! OOOOH! (hand raised)
My turn, MY TURN, to call <span style="color: #FF0000">Bullshit</span> with a Capital B.
You're west of San Antonio and on 10K acres and you claim you don't have "any"
coyotes...please.
I've hunted South Texas, Tilden and Christine. I know that's not in your "backyard" exactly but it (your post quoted above) <span style="text-decoration: underline">sounds like </span>you're saying Kinney County or maybe it's just <span style="text-decoration: underline">your</span> 10K acres don't have "any" coyotes. I'm sure TX P&W would disagree.
Did you mean "many" and it was a typo? I could live with that. Easy to do and understand.
Maybe the "bullshit" flag you threw and the manner you threw it was a little excessive and you meant to type "In my experience" or "In my opinion". I think that's what got some folks stirred up a little.
I'm not trying to anger you, just trying to help <span style="text-decoration: underline">everyone</span> tone it down a little. I always try to read my post before I hit "send" in case I might be misinterpreted. It happens.
There are some guys on here, including me, who have been calling and killing coyotes LONG before you were born. ALL my kids are older than you (using a 1985 year of birth).
A couple on here do it for a living. I'm not going to argue with their experience.
I ran through the entire slideshow of the deer attack from the original post. I find it to be unusual to have so much of the attack caught on camera. But stuff happens that none of us can explain. Just because it can't be explained or seems unusual doesn't mean it IS bullshit. Maybe the deer was used to hitting a feeder there and was comfortable with the area. We don't have the whole story. Probably never will. He darn sure may have been previously injured.
Because digital photography is easily modified by some people (NOT me) I can understand anyone's tendency to be a skeptic.
I'm a retired homicide supervisor and former SWAT sniper. I've seen some pretty crazy things, but we didn't use digital photography on crime scenes because it hadn't been invented yet. I've got a skepticism bred through many (34 at this point) years of seeing things go on in the world most wouldn't ever see or comprehend COULD occur. I don't like digital photography because we DON'T have a negative to back it up, but that's the way things are today. I have to adapt.
Anyway, you're welcome to your opinion. And I hope you get some coyotes on your hobby farm. They are a hoot to call. Bobcats at night with a spotlight in S. Texas are a blast as well.
By the way, I'm <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">ecstatic</span></span> that OSU smoked OU this year.
As a true Texican, if you start now, you can hate OU early for next year! (I've got family/friends in Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Coleman,Pflugerville, Seguin, Dripping Springs and Corsicana)
PS, my rancher buddy (from the airedale pics)on his 95K acre working cattle ranch routinely uses a motorcycle to check cattle. He also routinely chase/runs coyotes until they can't run anymore, then stabs them with a pocketknife, stomps them or bashes them with a rock. He says when their rear end starts to wobble, they're about done. I'm willing to believe the coyotes know the same about deer and antelope.
Merry Christmas to all.
