I wished my deer would all die off and be replaced with turkey. THAT would be awesome.

I saw a bobcat yesterday at about 70 yards. I didn't shoot it.

Bobcats kill 3 times as many deer as yotes.

I see less coyotes now than I have in years past.

83% of statistics are made up

X2, and rarely hear them anymore too.

100% of mine are.

oh, and I said I didn't shoot it. I didn't say I didn't shoot at it.

Some interesting findings out of an ongoing Virginia study into coyotes, bobcats and deer:

http://www.alleghenymountainradio.org/vi...in-bath-county/

http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2014-summer/s2014-coyotes.html

I been thinking about this since it is a major issue to me for our deer and turkey population. If we really want them dead why not start a club incentive to do so. Get a couple guy to pony up say a pot of $100 or more for the person killing the most yotes from now till turkey season is over. People will be more inclined to shoot them when money is involved especially if it has a big pot.

To show I am not biased, I will agree 100% with this statement. I have not killed a doe in over ten years and the numbers are still going down. Game warden told me not to worry we had a lot of deer. I told him he was correct because we had a lot of deer, but we don't anymore. I am about to go on a trapping spree as soon as I can get around on my leg. One way or the other I am going to make a difference.

Shooting them is fun and cool. It also removes one from the pack.

Shooting one or two expands the range of the adjoining coyotes, though. Just for easy example, with a city block as a quartered grid, one yote in each quarter considers that his territory. Remove one and the other three will ease into that quarter and expand their range, or a fourth will move in. Some real biologists should (please) correct me if I'm wrong but that's the way i understand it.

I try to shoot 'em when I can. But your club bounty-kitty money might be better served hiring a trapper IF you own the land or the landowner would agree to it.

Alabama Trapper & Predator Control Association -- http://www.atpca.org/

National Trappers Association - http://www.nationaltrappers.com/links.html

I shoot everyone I see, every chance I get.

Trapping by a competent trapper is by far the best route! And, it needs to be done consistently every year....not just when you start seeing more yotes!

As far as the yotes here being the same as the Western Coyote, I disagree! They are larger here and do not even really look the same as the Western coyotes.

most Decembers I spend more time on the look out for yotes than deer, due to our rut being in late January and all deer movement is to a minimum in December. I wish I would have kept every picture of every yote I have killed on this little piece of property

with yotes kill 2 and 8 will be born that spring. just the way it is. the government even try posion and that did not work. not much is helping, but the closest thing that has cut back the yotes is year round trapping, and stay consistant stop one year of trapping them and watch the yotes double that year.. I have went as far as to TRY to help with the control of yotes by trapping and traveling on my dime and not the clubs. hate to say this but those days are long gone.HOW EVER I will still teach ANY one how to trap yotes and I want charge a dime to teach you.

yotes can be trapped all year on private land and that's what clubs are. there are a few things you guys could do to stop the yotes. here is a few ideas and yes it sure helps

one
in the late spring after turkey season have a predator hunt contest, there is two ways to pull this off one could be for members only and the winner which is the one with the most predators of that month contest gets a free member ship to that that club.

second one you could have a public contest were they pay to get in the contest and the pot goes to the winners ,works like a bass fishing contest.

third you could all chip in and buy the traps you need and take turns running the traps.

fourth hire a private trapper BUT BEREADY TO PAY OUT THE BACK SIDE. they want spend 100 bucks to catch a 4 buck yote

FITH
CALL MONTGOMERY get a state trapper LMAO good luck there , you might see one some times next year or the next IF YOUR LUCKY

the fact is hunters hates trappers , trappers hates hunters but the truth is they need each other ,

any more questions pm me

I've seen bobcats stalk turkey and I've seen them with squirrels in their mouths.
I don't know what coyotes eat primarily.

I agree with needing a trapper


Huston i disagree a yote is a yote no matter were it's at. I have trapped wyo yotes and I have trapped bama yotes, both feed on any thing from pets,live stock and deer, the only thing different is how they work your sets and were they roam

western yotes are open area yotes, our yotes are thick cover yotes but just the same both are yotes

Son of a ......!!!!!!!

I'm going to have to agree that our state's liberal harvest regulations are the primary reason for deer population decline. The open dates for doe harvest are way too long, and the buck harvest record is a joke. Many people are just going to fill out the paper while transporting the deer and throw it away when they get home. Coyotes aren't the problem, irresponsible hunters are.