I think that would be a huge mistake. I was one of the original woodpile boys and we were killing truck loads of them way before it got cool to do so. They die just just fine with the sun shining. If our goal is to to preserve hunting opportunities and protect deer (hence the original motivation of this thread) then allowing men with spotlights and high powered rifles to hunt "coyotes" at night during the winter seems like a terrible and an iron clad alibi for every deer poacher in the county. Plus most areas of TN are just too fragmented and developed for night hunting with high power rifles because of the difficulty of Seeing what is behind what you are shooting at. It would be a wildlife officers worst nightmare
If they did do it…..it should be for landowners only and a set season at a time of the yr when bucks have shed!
