Coyote shoot or n ot

[diamond hunter]

OK,So,if you are hunting an area where you suspect a big buck is and you see a coyote,would u shoot it?Would you shooting the coyote keep the buck from coming out or would he pay no attention to it?Im talking about a mature buck. Two different times this year I could've shot coyotes and didn't,now I ask myself why.

 

[huntintn]

Never give a yote a pass.

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[MickThompson]

I wouldn't shoot if I was on the trail of a good one. I can always come back with an e caller and give them another try.

 

[Mike Belt]

The only time I shoot a coyote while deer hunting is if and when I'm about to call it quits. I just don't want to take the chance of screwing the pooch while on stand.

 

[Gravey]

I agree with Mike. Our place has quite a few but I only saw one this year. I just have a problem shooting one when I've spent lease dues, time and money in food plots, loaded up for the weekend and driven 90 miles one way. Feel like I'm ruining my hunt and wasting all that time and money. I did see two bobcats at the very end of the season and would've shot them but never had shots.

Edit: let me add this year my intent was to shoot one if I saw it and the one I saw never presented a shot. In years past I'd never shoot one but changing my way of thinking.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I don't in that situation.


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[GreyGoose]

I would not shoot a coyote during a deer hunt personally because killing "one"coyote does not outweigh my chances on taking a good deer.

 

[X-Tennessean]

I shoot everyone I see!!
I have killed them and not 15 minutes later killed deer.

Last year I shot a big female during muzzy that must have been coming in heat, let her lay and within the hour shot a mature doe not 10 yards from where the yote laid around 09:30. It was a cold sunny day so I sat for a bit and decided to move to a spot that is some really thick cover, I drug the yote out to my atv and left the doe then walked into my other location for an evening ground hunt nestled up in an old blow down. I hadn't been there but just a few minutes and a yote howled to the South of me, within 2-3 minutes that guy was standing 8 yards in front of me!!! He was so close I dang near missed him, hit him low in the chest facing me. He dropped but flipped and flopped around growling and carrying on while I was reloading the muzzle loader, the whole time I was thinking he was gonna get up and attack me!! lol
Things finally settled and I regained my composer to enjoy the rest of the hunt. At around 15:45 I killed one of the better bucks I have taken over the years following 3 more doe at 60 yards or so...

I killed 4 dogs with the muzzy and 2 with the rifle that year along with 1 bobcat!!
Now I carry my pistol as a backup for the yotes!!

 

[tahtah]

I shot 7 one year while deer hunting. I think we had a bumper crop that year! I don't know if it impacts whether or not a mature buck will come along afterwards, but I also wonder if one is going to come along after a coyote has passed through. I think either way it might be a little while before a mature buck comes cruising through, so why not reduce the pack when possible. Bobcats and foxes always get a pass. I enjoy seeing and watching them and I don't see them very often.

 

[GRIT]

Both bucks i killed this year a coyote came through about 15 to 20 minutes before the bucks did

 

[Matador]

I shot 7 one year while deer hunting. I think we had a bumper crop that year! I don't know if it impacts whether or not a mature buck will come along afterwards, but I also wonder if one is going to come along after a coyote has passed through. I think either way it might be a little while before a mature buck comes cruising through, so why not reduce the pack when possible. Bobcats and foxes always get a pass. I enjoy seeing and watching them and I don't see them very often.

I agree with this statement about mature buck might not come through for awhile. Might also cause buck to take a different route around you. Remember hunting with dogs is legal in some parts and big bucks have been killed in front of dogs, so I think even a mature buck Is cautious around a live moving yote. we shoot them on our lease when we get a chance.

 

[cbhunter]

I only see yotes maybe once every 2-3 years while deer hunting on average.


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[casjoker]

I wouldn't worry about shooting one ruining your hunt. My experiences have been similar to several others, a coyote appears not 20 minutes later a deer walks almost in the same steps. I have also had this happen with bears and humans. I have seen way more adverse reactions to human and dog scent than coyotes or bears.

 

[Hunter 257W]

If I see a coyote I shoot it. The deer can wait till later if they want to get shot too. How might that affect mature bucks?? Have never got but one buck I was sure was 4.5 years old on even a trail camera in 13 years of year round camera use. I've certainly never seen one in person, so I don't worry about what effect it will have on them.

 

[MUP]

Did you see the mature buck after the yotes went thru? Shoot the yotes IMO.

 

[megalomaniac]

I shoot every one I see. If you hunt my land and don't shoot for fear of messing up a hunt, you will not be invited back.

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[Woodman]

I've shot 'yotes from a treestand and had does and small bucks come by 15 minutes later and pay only momentary notice to the dead coyote. Can't say how a trophy buck would respond but my sense is that it would be the same.

Put the coyote "down" is my opinion......you will be saving fawns, turkeys, quail, etc......as well as domestic cats and dogs.


Don

 

[reloadxx]

I shoot a coyote over a deer anytime I have passed bucks to just get a shot at a coyote .

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[jetwrnch]

Guy i was hunting with this year shot a coyote below his stand. A few minutes later a few does came in to investigate the dead yote. Shortly after that he shot a buck.

 

[Snake]

The only time I shoot a coyote while deer hunting is if and when I'm about to call it quits. I just don't want to take the chance of screwing the pooch while on stand.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[spoon]

If I see a yote or cat while deer hunting, I go immediately into predator hunting

 

[jetwrnch]

The only time I shoot a coyote while deer hunting is if and when I'm about to call it quits. I just don't want to take the chance of screwing the pooch while on stand.

No pun intended?

 

[Remington700]

I typically let them walk. Not because I do not want to shoot them. I alway think I will screw up that stand. I do not want a dead stinking coyote sitting close by while I hunt. Also, I do not want have to drag it off after I finish hunting. I will wait for after season and call or trap them.

 

[Winchester]

I never take the chance of ruining a set on a Yote

 

[jb3]

Always shoot a yote. I'm not an animal science major, but I would think to a deer, a dead one is a dead one. Not sure a deer can tell how an animal died.

 

[csi-tech]

I shot a coyote right at daybreak and just let it lie about 50 yards from my stand. I think the deer smelled it a mile away. I only shoot them if they are the prey of the day or I can nail it 200 yards away up wind.

 

[Hunter 257W]

I shot a coyote last year about 125 yards from my shooting house. I never did move it and it laid there the rest of deer season and on into the Spring. I recall deer walking by it as if it were nothing several times later in the season. I think deer can quickly size up the difference in a live vs. dead coyote.

 

[Planking]

I always shoot everyone i see and im almost always in a spot i feel i have a good chance at a big buck. I couldn't say for sure whether it has helped or hurt. Ive killed some good deer and a boat load of yotes.