I've watched this "same" post come up every single spring without fail, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it gets a little heated. It's a clash of morals and predator management with important talking points to both sides. I can only speak for myself but one of the things I learned as I aged was there's definitely 2 sides to this debate and sometimes it's a challenge to be respectful of others stance and opinions.
For me and where I live, our deer and small game population isn't in any jeopardy and I'm yet to meet a rancher that's had a coyote kill a calf. If either of those was a legitimate issue than I would have zero issues to eliminate the problem.
That said I actually enjoy hunting adult coyotes that are cunning, wary and vocal at times. I enjoy matching witts with seasoned adults and the accomplishment of outsmarting them. I don't enjoy the thought or risk of killing parents that are very easy to call when rearing and the pups dying of dehydration and starvation in the den resulting in a very long and miserable death. Calling very young pups is like shooting fish in a barrel and I don't get any feeling of accomplishment from it.
The moral side of me wins and I leave them alone from spring until fall then it's game on, what others choose to do is there decisions and that also is as important as mine, even though we might not agree.
