Originally Posted by Shaw
If y'all don't believe the coyotes are having a huge impact on our deer herd, you're in for a rude awaking. I don't think they kill too many healthy adult deer, but they are decimating the fawn population in areas each year. Add that and the over harvest of does and we have our current situation in the Southern Zone. I know of a club in Tuscaloosa County up near the Fayette line that had a very healthy deer population back 10 years ago. Now you're lucky if you see over 10 deer in a season. Ask Cuz-Pat, he'll feel you in. They were hammering the hell out of the does while their coyote population went through the roof. If your coyote sightings and sign start increasing on your hunting area, you better start backing off on the does and try to do something about the yotes.

Here is the problem , you take 3000 acres of timber land , some Clear cut , some thinned, some old growth , with the occasional food plot , hard wood creek bottom and beaver swamp .. These tracts of land are pretty exspansive, they have little human intrusion , unlike farm land with fence rows and patches of woods, and folks like DW riding around on fourwheelers and tractors. The coyote will not run in as large of packs in this situation. . But you give them a big forest and the only prefator they see is the occasional hunter during hunting season . You have an entirely diffrent situatuon .

Last edited by RonBuck; 11/04/15 11:54 AM.