Denning season ethics

Buddy and are are having a discussion over denning season ethics. He thinks we give the coyotes a break april & may. I side with shoot them when you can as that's our states legal policy. What's yall's opinions?
 
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As long as you aren't breaking any laws, hunt as you wish, whatever that may be. Support all hunters and allow them to hunt how and when they wish so long as they are doing so within the letter of the law.
The only thing we can't do here in pa is use vehicle mounted highchairs, vehicle mounted scanners, and drones. Other than that, they get no breaks. Oh, no landmines, poison etc.
 
i would like to give them a break but we dont. we hunt them year round (also from PA) how ever due to weather, rolling both ankles during deer season and wife having hip replacement surgery, i have been out 1 or 2 times since deer season and that was for the mosquito creek hunt and maybe one other time just to see how the ankles would hold up.

the way i see it, if ya give them a break, its easier to kill a family group in early summer than it is to call in the lone male during denning season, plus you can get 5 (pups) at a time if you go with a partner. still get the same numbers maybe a few more and do it quicker. plus calling in pups that havent been called to before will have us thinking what experts we have become :)
 
It’s a no go here in NY. Closed season April through the month of September. As a hunter, I’m good with it. Let em grow up a bit. Not that they’re much smarter in early October? Most of my farmers don’t give a rat’s ass about ethics when it comes to killing coyotes. I don’t blame them.

I think crapshoot gave the best advice. If it’s legal, and you want to, have at it. If it’s not your thing, don’t. Pretty simple.
 
Season is closed here in New York as hunt0168 said. ........which never made sense to me. Spring and early summer is prime time for plenty of animals giving birth. Stopping now just gives the coyotes, and other predators, "free reign" if you will, to kill as many fawns and turkey poults as they can. I think the car insurance industry might have a say in that. Fewer deer, fewer car / deer collisions.
 
Season is closed here in New York as hunt0168 said. ........which never made sense to me. Spring and early summer is prime time for plenty of animals giving birth. Stopping now just gives the coyotes, and other predators, "free reign" if you will, to kill as many fawns and turkey poults as they can. I think the car insurance industry might have a say in that. Fewer deer, fewer car / deer collisions.

coyotes do kill fawns. what i found surprising was a study done here in PA by Penn State that found black bears kill more fawns than coyotes do.
 
I'm in the "give em a break" camp. I don't think I've ever shot a coyote between mid-April and mid-September, even though it's perfectly legal to do so in the states I hunt. However, if anyone else wants to, that's fine too.
This is me too. Partly because I'm just not that mad at them and partly because it's hot, and snakes, and camping, and fishing and other stuff to do and work on.
 
A few years ago, I set a goal to kill a coyote in every month of the year. Accomplished it, now unless I get a call from a farmer about predation they don't get hunted from late April 1 until late June after the pups are weaned and exploring on their own a little. In my area of SW PA we have WAY too many deer so letting nature take its course does not bother me and imo I don't think they affect the turkey population much.
 
I don't like the damage coyotes do but I'm in the let them get the pups up and running camp. Just for the thrill of having them howling all around me in the winter. To each their own.
 
I kill them all year...and don't think twice about it.
That is until mosquitoes start buzzn and I have 2 thermally rolling and wearing a raincoat because they are so bad.
 
I hunted year around at landowner's request in spite of heat, ticks, snakes and mosquitoes. July and August. Permetherin solved the tick problem, couldn't see that much benefit to thermocell, so just tolerated the rest.
One evening, between sunset and dark, I had Walker ear muffs on and started to hear a hum, thinking it was just feedback tht sometimes occurs, I ignored it, but it continued. I looked up and there was a swarm of mosquitoes about 8-10' overhead. It was not as dark as this picture would indicate, but the auto flash reflecting back from mosquitoes resulted in this unusual photo. Fortunately they never dropped down.
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I did usually slack off between May & August as much as possible.
 
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