I disagree but I won’t argue with you.
Growing up as a sheep rancher with upwards of 8000 sheep (on five ranches between Texas and NM) back in the 80s… I killed coyotes- lots of them. Later in the game we realized they will always come back and so we stopped killing them unless they were actively killing sheep. But the state on NM kept on killing them using poison in M80 charges buried underground- that was a bad idea since they killed many other critters instead and spread out a lot of poison. The trappers they stopped using DID WORK, but it all went to hell when they stopped trapping and started using dumbass stuff like this.
Towards the end of it all, we finally realized that the best way to keep them out was to put Commodores (large white sheep dogs) out with the sheep. They “replaced” the coyotes and protected the sheep in the case of an attack too.
Today I live in Kansas and upland birds have been put back pretty bad by several varmints- including coyotes. But farming (GMOs, Round-up, and the real poisons) has probably done more damage. Still, I hear about 50 coyotes a night in my back lot and if I see one, I’ll frag him. Prefer the foxes near the house so let them live nearby instead.
Wellp, they didn’t specify if bone-in or boneless.
Yep, “shovelling water back into the ocean”… Once one’s dead, territory’s freed up, another one moves in. Make it unpleasant for anyone to be there, and they’ll just move elsewhere.
’Though I could never figure out how to get a coyote to drink a whole bottle of Southern Comfort when locked in a closet.
I watched a TV program a few years ago about wildlife living in places you would not expect them to. As I remember they claim there are over 2000 coyotes living in Detroit .
In Cemeteries , abandon factories , parks and such.
“…we finally realized that the best way to keep them out was to put Commodores (large white sheep dogs) out with the sheep…”
around here, people use donkeys for that….even miniature donkeys….seems to work because it has been going on for a while.
Are LEP lights designated as lasers? If so wouldn't that make them illegal for hunting in most states?
Most states I’ve hunted in (* and yes… you have to read EACH state’s proclamation to know anything for sure)… typically use the more generic terms like “assisted lighting” or “artificial light” with regard to hunting VARMINTS (like coyotes or pigs). I don’t know of a state in the US that allows ANY lights for “night spotting” listed GAME like: deer, elk, waterfoul birds (ducks, geese), upland birds (turkey, quail), etc.
But there may be rules as in Kansas (my home state I hunt a LOT) where THIS year we are finally allowed to use lights for coyotes at night. I don’t know if we (in Kansas again here) can use laser “sighting/aiming” systems too? But Ranger Rick isn’t going to care what type of emitter is making your “spot light” work as much as what you are using a light to spot at night (and it better not be deer here OR in Texas).
But in Texas you can use a helocopter to kill pigs (and varmints) IF you are the land owner AND you are “controlling varmints” (where you don’t even need a hunting license). But I’m still not sure if the dust settled on the selling of night pig hunts from helicopters. Last time I heard the state was letting them do about whatever they want but still a fuzzy issue (when the money starts moving around it all of course) 