My guess is the farmer loses a lot of crops every year to a dense deer herd and wants as many deer killed as possible. Coyotes in a pack can take down an adult deer if need be, but fawns are the more likely prey.
Farmers are generally coyote friendly because they eat so many mice/voles. I read somewhere that coyote's that live close to farmland have something like an 80% diet of rodents, it is far and away their primary food source. There are several farmers close by where I live that offer up some of their land to public hunting for Idaho F&G's "Access Yes!" program. 98% of the farmland properties are tagged with the message, "No shooting anything that may eat a mouse or vole!".
The crop farmers hate the deer. They lose a lot of money every year to the huge deer population. Anything that kills deer is welcome there. Now I’d imagine cattle farmers there have a different outlook, but the farmer whose land I hunt doesn’t want the coyotes shot. He wants them to take out all the deer they can.
I’m home now and about to start processing deer. if I get pressed for time I may freeze some of it and process it later. I’ve done that before.
Checked and moved some cameras today. 1 of them got one of my pulling out the buck the other day. Moved my setup close to a bedding area. Heard a deer get up and move away. Didn't spook them to much so going to sneak back in this afternoon to try and do a bump and dump. Rode my back back about a mile or so from where I just setup and came across an old climber that looks to be abandoned. Sent from my SM-G950U using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
So, the wife and I were very industrious today. We started processing the three deer I brought home today at about 11:00 am, took a lunch break at about 12:15 and we finished at 6:00 pm. I'm working hard on my annual production of "Bambi on Ice". It's not quite ready for viewing, but it's coming along nicely. I did make a mistake. I let my boning knife slip and it hit my left middle finger. Look at the wrinkles on the knuckle just above your fingernail on your left middle finger. Yeah, I don't have those any more. Well, they're still there for now, but they're just attached by a flap of skin. It's just a little boo-boo. Anyway, I'm probably going to head back to Kentucky tomorrow even though it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow and most of the day Saturday. If I know the weather the rain will probably end Saturday morning and I'll be sitting here or on my way there wishing I were there already. I'm not going to let that happen. I'll just take my copy of Lonesome Dove on DVD and if it rains I'll watch movies and drink beer. I might even eat a bite here and there.
The mama doe that busted me last sunday and her fawn were all i saw tonight. Got in later than expected and kept bumping the same 2 deer the whole way in. Tomorrow morning these NW winds switch East. Ill have to go in early cause i dont have a setup for that.
Annnndddd, I'll be at work tomorrow as well. They need to get parts out the door and I'm the only one who has the experience with them. I do have the next 2 weekends off regardless as my work is locking up for the holiday weekends.
36 and the winds finally dropped. I stuck my head out the door this morning to a bad north wind, not the west predicted. Would have blown my scent ahead of me. No sense I going out in that.
Well if i can find this thing i may have just killed a boone and crockett. Questionable hit and abut to get pounded with rain
Good luck, get a tracking dog on standby if legal. Rain may wash out the blood trail, shouldn't bother a dog too much.
After some phone calls im easing out of here not even gonna look for blood. Have a tracker phone number at truck.
