Great questions! We are sitting over corn piles year around at night and there is more big ole bucks running around every year. Cheaters are gonna cheat whether or not hunters are legally hunting yotes, hogs or coons at night. If you have law abiding people out there at night the scumbags are the first ones to go.
Not with any weapon all year long. According to the TN Hunting Guide, centerfire ammunition is not allowed during archery only and archery/muzzleloader only deer, elk, and bear seasons.
Do you have any proof that any more poachers would out there than what is there now. Just maybe honest hunters at night may just turn them in or keep them away.
Shoot em all target practice.
This right here is the answer. If everyone is worried about coyotes they really need to learn to trap. By far the best way to get your mind to thi k you are making a difference when reality is you will never make a dent in the population.
Unfortunately, this is correct. You will never make a dent in their population. The only answer is, provide as much tall-grass and thick-brush cover that you can. Coyotes prefer not to hunt in areas where they cannot see far, as they are eyesight hunters.
You cant prove something that hasnt yet had the opportunity to happen, but i feel confident there would be wide spread abuse. And BTW, my comments are not genuinely mine, but actually borrowed from a wildlife officer that spoke at my schools CTE career day when one of the students asked why coyotes couldnt be hunted at night. He was a brilliant presenter who certainly opened my eyes up to the potential ramnifications of such a rule change. Makes me think TWRA has already assessed the risk.
Absolutely. And they can be used together. Kill day active coyotes with a gun…..catch the Call shy ones with steel traps or snares. Win, win and keep the country side quiet at night
You are correct. No hogs ir bear season in my area, but i believe if archery or muzzleloader is open they have to be taken with a rimfire or shotgun
You can prove it if you look outside of Tennessee. I don't know any other states that joins us right off that doesn't have a night season for them. Im sure theres one or two but many of them have a night season for yotes. Do they have these "widespread abuse" problems?
No it doesn't but hunting is supposed to be fun. I don't hunt hogs at night because i think my circle traps are a less effective means. I do it because its fun and it helps a little, especially after trapping.
Other words you don't know there would be anymore poaching than anytime. I trust my fellow hunters much more than you and some other do.
Trapping may be more effective than hunting them at night but some for different reasons can not trap them but could occasionally hunt them. Like me the lease I had was some way from home it be impossible to run traps every day like they should be but could go and hunt at night sometime.
I can guarantee without a dought that if a nuclear bomb were to wipe everything from the face of the earth the o ly thigs left would be coyotes and cockroaches
Some data strongly supports the idea that if a primary pair of coyotes are killed, the group breaks up and reproduction actually increases.
Neither are honey bees
It's like some people forget what extinction is…. Yes we can eliminate coyotes
Sure, but I think the method that's going to be successful wouldn't be as simple as deer hunters occasionally shooting a few.
To tell the truth I saw more bobcats than coyotes where I hunted in Tennessee… but heard way more coyotes, but too dark for shooting.
Your absolutely correct, twra doesn't trust us to be able to do the right thing when pressured. Like the big buck at night thing. And that doesn't sit well with me.
I have seen a wide-area 48-year concerted effort to eradicate coyotes - including shooting, trapping and poisoning - that failed. In fact, 2 years after the eradication was ended, the 'yote population was right back to where it had started 50 years earlier. Coyotes move too far too fast to eradicate them.
On my place, I get almost as many coyote pictures on trail-cam as I do deer pictures.
