I like coyote hunting in the area I live. Starting to see more in the fall when their fur gets fuller. But I am not able to hunt them hard because I'm a farmer and not done with field work. So I hunt them when I can. But I have to do it before the snow hits the ground. If not I'm screwed. As soon the snow starts, guys with dogs run up and down the roads looking for tracks. When they find them they let their dogs loose. I was told that the dogs chase the coyote hard enough they die from exhaustion or the dogs kill them. When the dogs get tired they put fresh ones in on the chase. Guys sit in their pickups about half mile or so apart watching for coyotes or the dogs. This is done just about every week in the winter.
The only hunting I do is for deer(food for the family, only harvest what we need), groundhog(they can destroy a soybean field pretty quick), and coyotes(to keep population down and maybe get some extra pocket money). I work hard for what I harvest and thank God for what I take. But what these guys are doing is lazy hunting. They go onto anybody's property without asking. Block travel lanes on roads.
I might get some people ****ed at me. Oh well. It would be nice to out law this type of hunting practice.
I'm NOT against using dogs for decoys. As long as the hunter kills the coyote like hunters should. Quick and humane.
Sorry if this is some rambling, but this subject gets my blood boiling.
Jason
