Yote Crossed the Line!

[BigBoy99]

How far East have the coyote come? I live on the NC coast and am not aware of any coyotes getting this far.

 

[glenncal1]

I've heard that before too, but I also heard that actually three things will survive:

Coyotes
Cockroaches, and
Keith Richards​

I think rattlesnakes will be around too!

 

[chaparrito]

I'm having a serious issue with one big one currently. He looks a lot like the one in that game cam shot but is very dark red. He's regularly taking barn cats and poultry all around the area. He clears a 5 foot fence from a standstill and has figured out what areas my dogs patrol and avoids them. We don't have wolves nearby so I suspect he's a coy-dog. On two different occasions he he hopped the fence with my wife less than 50 feet away in plain sight and took his pick of the chickens and off he went. I don't go out unarmed any more but haven't got a good shot yet. One very smart canine. Neighbors are all tracking his movements and he's settling into a pattern. His complacency and lack of fear of humans will hopefully be his eventual downfall. I want his hide nailed to my henhouse.

 

[arjay]

There's a breeding pair that live in a large cemetery near me.The male is huge and just ignores humans.Cant imagine he's 100% coyote.

 

[fat tom]

How far East have the coyote come? I live on the NC coast and am not aware of any coyotes getting this far.

Take my word for it....you have 'em!

f.t.

 

[Usmc5811]

Yep got them here in Virginia. Have a button buck walking around with a chunk of meat missing from his right ham. Poor feller hope he makes it through the winter. My daughter and I would put a little corn out for him trying to help. Any dead coyote is a good one, and Franklin I don't care where you hit them as long as the sucker dies. They have really cut down the deer, rabbit, and groundhog where I hunt. Any that get unlucky enough to get in my sights is a dead one.

 

[Kid44]

The only Good Coyote is a DEAD Coyote. I'm up to 4 this year, purposely shot far back to run off and nap elsewhere!

Not cool. If you're going to shoot it, kill it. Don't let it run off and suffer.

 

[chaparrito]

I ran into the husband of a co-worker yesterday. He is a retired state fish hatchery manager. We were talking about my problem yote. He said "I have a Fish and Game coyote live trap I sorta forgot to return, if you want to borrow it. We used to have to relocate them when we trapped them on the hatchery grounds, just promise me you won't do that."
On my honor I won't relocate him I said.

 

[Imissedagain]

I've heard that before too, but I also heard that actually three things will survive:

Coyotes
Cockroaches, and
Keith Richards​

You all got that right!

I teamed up with a 12 year old whose job was to kill predators/pests on the ranch. (Digging holes and the cattle/horses would break legs.)
We won the Western Nationals smallbore two man team and took home the pewter mugs. The beer tasted good.

 

[Drm50]

In my area of SE Ohio the coyotes have wiped out the small game and put the hurt on deer herd. I can't understand how
they got here after so many years. I have a strong suspicion that
some eastern state's DNR imported them to control deer herd
and it got out of hand. People around here don't keep chickens
anymore. Even the fox,skunk, possums are disappearing. I use
to shoot 500+ groundhogs every summer, without making a
dent in them. They are on the verge of extinction. Some of the
best grouse hunting in country use to be here. There is more
grouse cover here than there has ever been, but no grouse. The
only way a dent will be put on them is a bounty.

 

[brucev]

In Ga. coyotes are a nuisance. Like feral dogs, they get what they deserve. When seen, they are shot on sight. Coyotes probably migrated east via bridges, etc. Understandable. No one thought about such vermin when the roads and bridges were being built. This is in sharp contrast to other vermin such as exotic snakes, reptiles, etc., released by fools who want to have such mess in their houses.

 

[SC_Mike]

What about bobcats?

Shot this guy at a friends farm. He's been seeing him for weeks just didnt have the rifle when needed. I had the coyote call and rabbit decoy out and he came right in.

 

[ky wonder]

What about bobcats?

Shot this guy at a friends farm. He's been seeing him for weeks just didnt have the rifle when needed. I had the coyote call and rabbit decoy out and he came right in.

nice cat, we have several here in the hollow, and have harvested a few, but they are not as pervasive as the yotes, so I don't mind the cats and haveoften let them walk, but yotes are shot on sight

 

[ky wonder]

What about bobcats?

Shot this guy at a friends farm. He's been seeing him for weeks just didnt have the rifle when needed. I had the coyote call and rabbit decoy out and he came right in.

nice cat, we have several here in the hollow, and have harvested a few, but they are not as pervasive as the yotes, so I don't mind the cats and have often let them walk, but yotes are shot on sight

 

[NYlakesider]

Well a few weeks ago I saw a Bobcat on my property.(First time ever, yotes and coy dogs are rather common up here at night) It was about 2 PM and it was between my house and propane tank.

I had to look close to see what it was, my first though was that one of my large indoor only Mane Coon Cats had somehow gotten out. The Bob gave me a good look for about a minuet and then turned and went into the woods.

I immediately called my neighbor that lives about a 1/4 mile always she lets her cat out all the time to give her a heads up.

 

[handejector]

HOW did yotes become so common in the south and east?

I've heard the bridge theory, but come on- bridges have crossed the big rivers for at least a century.

I grew up in GA. There were no yotes. NONE. I think the late 1980s is when the first sightings were reported.
Now, they live in every county in the state. In some counties, they seem to have bred like rabits.

What accounts for the appearance and flourishing of coyotes in formerly completely unknown ranges?

 

[cardguy]

I wish they were easier to call in here. Iowa has so many different deer seasons that run together that for the most part they become entirely nocturnal. The best calling I did was in Hardin, Montana. They farm land in Iowa is so jammed up it adds to the problem of calling.