Before you get your jockeys in a knot, read the whole thread. On the 1st, I went out to the oak grove stand and when I got there at 5:00 AM, the oak grove around my stand was filled to capacity with does who evidently did not head out into the crop fields next to the grove. My trailcams all year have shown way too many does and young bucks that have the gene pool of an old bugger that frequents my neighbor's property. That buck is a spike on one side (the spike is close to 2' long) and a 3 pointer on the other side. On the evening hunt opening day, I sat in another stand between a bedding area and a food source. I didn't see a single deer. As I headed back home another neighbor had dropped a 130 class buck on the adjoining property. I detoured to help him drag and load his buck. Now, the culling part. While assisting my young neighbor, downwind from us a pack of coyotes (from the sounds of it there were at least 15 of them) started yapping and howling. I'm sure they smelled the blood and were excited. My young neighbor decided to dress his buck closer to his home to not draw coyotes into the travel area that his buck had used as he still has a doe tag to fill. Last night as I was crawling out of a stand another pack of coyotes started up from my deer sanctuary. From the sounds of it they had a kill. I talked to my son last night and we decided to do a little bow - 'yote safari during shotgun season on our property to see if we can't aerate a few 'yotes. If that is unsuccessful, we'll break out the predator guns and do it that way. Either way, we're gonna cull some 'yotes from the area.
have fun....it's a blast just tryin to get a shot at those buggers - if your wife has a small dog use it as bait
No love loss for me and the Yote's. They need to be thinned out around here in NW Missouri. Last winter one did a number on our little dog. Didn't kill him, but tore him to pieces pretty bad. They are on shoot on sight terms with me.
Not sure what there is for us to get our jocks in a knot over. Just remember, what sounds like 15 yotes is more than likely just 3 or 4. Trust me on this. You get 3 or 4 yotes yipping and it will sound like a whole pack of Hyena's. If it was me I probably wouldn't worry to much about it until season was over.
I know that the area I hunt has a lot of them but I haven't come across any of them yet. Would love to get a shot at one though!
hell a while back on Quantico Main side you were required to kill them if you were out hunting and saw one.
Two of them started up about 100 yards up the hill as I was pulling the guts out of my doe on Saturday night.
They are open year round up here... try to take out as many as I can all year long. Fur isn't worth much anymore so I see no need to wait for them to come into prime.
