Not all antlerless deer will have a fawn or fawns when you observe them in the hunting season. Most of the females 2.5 yrs and older will have fawns, but very few yearling females will have fawns (typically less than 15% will breed as fawns: puberty is related to their weight). Again, regardless of predators, only about half of the antlerless deer seen can even have fawns.
Coyote hunting contests, which award participants who bring in the biggest – or the most – wild canines during the competition, create quite a stir among the animal rights groups. Generally, I don’t believe hunting is a competitive sport in most instances, but I find nothing wrong with the contests because I don’t view coyotes through rose-colored glasses. I see them for what I think they truly are – vermin, varmints, predators, nuisances and furbearers. Basically, “D” – all of the...
Best Ever Coyote Bow Kills
Misleading data, newspaper stories and letters to the editor have escalated fears and sometimes skirted the facts about coyotes. Statements like “exploding populations”, “not long before a child is bitten” and “live trap and remove” are misleading. Know the facts about coyotes before you make judgments about them.
How Coyotes Conquered the Continent
Eastern coyotes have been escalating recently, but as reports of the crafty and adaptable creatures have been increasing so have misidentifications as wolves. The recent sightings come during their breeding season, which runs from January to April but is at its height in mid-February.
For eons, coyotes roamed what is now the Western United States, with its wide-open plains. Then came European settlers, who cut in a steady east-west march down forests for farms and ranches. Along the way, they killed large predators such as pumas and wolves to protect livestock and for their own safety.
From The Hunting news – recently at a coyote hunting seminar to learn some new tactics. The professional coyote hunter has killed thousands of coyotes all over the United States and had a lot of unique ways to kill coyotes.
According to The Wildlife Society. — coyotes (Canis latrans) expand their range and increase their population sizes across the eastern United States, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations are not impacted, according to new research.