It is a great sport, and once you've successfully taken a coyote, you'll get equipped to pursue this wild dog. It often happens that more than one coyote will come up on a hunter's location, and multiple kills are quite common. Coyotes answer one another, and tapes that imitate these calls are sometimes effective. He can't outrun a jackrabbit, but he can quite easily overtake a cottontail, or catch a squirrel on the ground.Įlectronic callers are in common use with tapes that duplicate a rabbit in distress. Scopes up to 12 power are used after the gun is carefully sighted-in.
Such rifles produce one-shot kills because the bullet impacts great shock. Hunting coyote means an accurate, long-range rifle, shooting a small speedy bullet at high velocity. Black bears, cougar, great horned owls, and golden eagles may attack coyotes. They are carnivores and meat is what they're after. Unable to compete with timberwolves, coyotes are known to be able to take down an adult deer when working in packs, but mostly they take newborns in deer, sheep, or wild game. He will weigh about 25 pounds, seldom much more.
Hunting and trapping mounts or food supplies diminish like abundance or scarcity of rabbits.Ī male coyote is about two feet high. Coyotes aren't a migratory animal but they do move around quite a bit, probably following the availability of game upon which they prey. There are more coyotes in the Smoky Hills forests than we believe, or in the more rural areas of Becker, Clay and Wilkin Counties. Yet, there are plenty of them hereabouts. Some of us see him as a very wild canine, which inhabits the vast grassy plains or the wilds of our western states. "Hunters Alert," mentioned above, is one of Nevada's more vocal hunter groups, and is a force to be reckoned with in the western state.ĭedicated riflemen who pursue the coyotes know that there are plenty of them in these parts. Every group is fighting, nobody is compromising, and deer numbers continue to diminish.
Officials with the Federal Fish & Wildlife Service say the pro-hunter hunter groups are doing a good job and that's the way it should go. Killing the predators isn't scientifically justified, they claim. State biologists are listening to animal rights groups. Hunters Alert petitioned the Nevada wildlife Commission to approve several lion-coyote killing groups. Nevada's mule deer numbered about 106,000 in 2009, brought down from a high of 240,000 in 1988. In Nevada, the matter at issue is whether killing mountain lions and the coyotes that prey on the mule deer has the State Department of Wildlife at odds with the Federal and a governor-appointed commission that oversees them. Nevada's Jan Hefelfinger is attempting to find the answer and then concentrate efforts toward that issue. Nevada has a targeted predator reduction program going on, but is it effective? Some claim that reduction of natural habitat, along with the always-constant wildfires are more the answer. Everyone is wondering whether large numbers of mountain lions, which roam the state, or coyotes and wolves are more to blame. Nevada, in particular, has been hard hit. Sportsmen, environmentalists, and state biologists are debating over the major reasons for significant losses in deer numbers in the western states. Predators and habitat loss reduce western deer numbers Your time to do this will come soon enough. Go over and congratulate the shooter who has "run 'em" with a 25 straight. When five rounds are fired, the scorer commands "move," turn to the right and advance to your next station. Put a shell in your open when he calls pull for his bird. Watch the shooter two positions ahead of you. Shoot when your target appears, then dismount your gun and pocket your empty shell. Try to keep good squad rhythm, don't dawdle with excessive aiming. Take along shooting glasses and hearing protection too.įire promptly when it's your turn. You should always carry just two extras in the shell loops on your shooting coat. Come to the line with 25 reliable reloads or new factory ammunition.