SongDoghunter
12-20-2009, 10:28 AM
I recently saw this article posted on another forum. The guy who started the thread ask for opinions about the information contained in the article. Here is the article followed by my comments. I'm interested in some of your opinions.
Find this page online at: http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly...es-90514.shtml
Hunter seeks permission to hunt coyotes on your land
By Dalton Hamilton
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009
Pittsboro, NC - There have been a lot of people posting about coyote sightings. As at least one person has mentioned, coyotes are very dangerous animals and if coyotes are in your area and you have small children, please do not leave the children alone outside.
Coyotes are not native to North Carolina. They were introduced to North Carolina to help keep the deer population down. One reason you don’t see hardly any large deer is because the coyote population has exploded. Coyotes will track pregnant doe deer and kill the fawns when they are born. Coyotes have no natural enemy. Coyotes are killing machines — that’s all they live for.
For these reason and more, myself and a couple others I know have just recently started gathering data and are now starting to hunt coyotes. NC Wildlife Commission has given hunters permission to hunt coyotes all year long. Very few hunters actually hunt coyotes — at least that’s what I’ve seen. Due to the intelligence of the coyote, hunting will never eliminate them. I’ve spoken with NC Wildlife Officers in Chatham County and in Alamance County and they have confirmed that coyotes are a very large problem and that any farmer would probably give permission to hunt coyotes on their land.
If anyone has land that they feel may have coyotes and would give hunting permission to responsible hunters to hunt on your land (only for coyotes), please contact me. I am a North Carolina, hunted all my life, and in my Army days I was in 7th Special Forces Group. If I am given permission to hunt coyotes on your land, my actions would be very safe.
If you want to discuss this topic further, please feel free to contact me at (919)919-7700 to discuss.
Absoulte BS!
That guy is doing nothing more than networking for a free hunt. Coyotes are not a problem anywhere in this state, period! They were not intoduced by any legal methods, especially by the WRC. They were brought here by owners of or hunters who run dogs in fox pens! Every Tom, Dick, and Harry hunter is either hunting coyotes as an extra(outside of)deer season shooting sport or shooting them while deer hunting. People are going out of ther way to kill them not out of fear of them, but rather the novelty of the fact they are around. They are exactly like the feral hog in that they are being killed about as fast as they are reproducing.
North Carolina does not have sufficient large tracts of land to harbor coyotes beyond the reaches of hunters to the point they can reproduce like they have in Texas and Arizona for example. If you check with any Agriculture Extension office in this state, I'll guarantee you'll find very few documented cases of livestock predation by coyotes.
Lastly, while I'm no expert coyote hunter, I've called in and killed my share. Most of these guys placing these ads are greenhorn coyote hunters running around with their Bushmaster Heavy Barrel Varminters, Ghille Suits, and FoxPros who don't know ###T about the sport, and are doing nothing more than riding around educating these animals to the point no one can call them in!
Most of them couldn't find their butts with both hands in their back pockets!
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Doghunter
East Carolina Predator Hunting Forum
www.eastcarolinapredatorhunting.com
Find this page online at: http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly...es-90514.shtml
Hunter seeks permission to hunt coyotes on your land
By Dalton Hamilton
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009
Pittsboro, NC - There have been a lot of people posting about coyote sightings. As at least one person has mentioned, coyotes are very dangerous animals and if coyotes are in your area and you have small children, please do not leave the children alone outside.
Coyotes are not native to North Carolina. They were introduced to North Carolina to help keep the deer population down. One reason you don’t see hardly any large deer is because the coyote population has exploded. Coyotes will track pregnant doe deer and kill the fawns when they are born. Coyotes have no natural enemy. Coyotes are killing machines — that’s all they live for.
For these reason and more, myself and a couple others I know have just recently started gathering data and are now starting to hunt coyotes. NC Wildlife Commission has given hunters permission to hunt coyotes all year long. Very few hunters actually hunt coyotes — at least that’s what I’ve seen. Due to the intelligence of the coyote, hunting will never eliminate them. I’ve spoken with NC Wildlife Officers in Chatham County and in Alamance County and they have confirmed that coyotes are a very large problem and that any farmer would probably give permission to hunt coyotes on their land.
If anyone has land that they feel may have coyotes and would give hunting permission to responsible hunters to hunt on your land (only for coyotes), please contact me. I am a North Carolina, hunted all my life, and in my Army days I was in 7th Special Forces Group. If I am given permission to hunt coyotes on your land, my actions would be very safe.
If you want to discuss this topic further, please feel free to contact me at (919)919-7700 to discuss.
Absoulte BS!
That guy is doing nothing more than networking for a free hunt. Coyotes are not a problem anywhere in this state, period! They were not intoduced by any legal methods, especially by the WRC. They were brought here by owners of or hunters who run dogs in fox pens! Every Tom, Dick, and Harry hunter is either hunting coyotes as an extra(outside of)deer season shooting sport or shooting them while deer hunting. People are going out of ther way to kill them not out of fear of them, but rather the novelty of the fact they are around. They are exactly like the feral hog in that they are being killed about as fast as they are reproducing.
North Carolina does not have sufficient large tracts of land to harbor coyotes beyond the reaches of hunters to the point they can reproduce like they have in Texas and Arizona for example. If you check with any Agriculture Extension office in this state, I'll guarantee you'll find very few documented cases of livestock predation by coyotes.
Lastly, while I'm no expert coyote hunter, I've called in and killed my share. Most of these guys placing these ads are greenhorn coyote hunters running around with their Bushmaster Heavy Barrel Varminters, Ghille Suits, and FoxPros who don't know ###T about the sport, and are doing nothing more than riding around educating these animals to the point no one can call them in!
Most of them couldn't find their butts with both hands in their back pockets!
__________________
Doghunter
East Carolina Predator Hunting Forum
www.eastcarolinapredatorhunting.com