Bounty on Coyote and 365 day a year hunting season for them! What is your opinion on this.

[BHC]

bounty NO !!!!

I know they hurt the deer herd, and they need to be in check.....I do enjoy seeing them when hunting not often one sees them, and I love hearing them howling in pre dawn darkness 

[Lungsonlvs]

No Season shoot em when you see them. 

[Nomad]

The season closes??

[nickmarch]

8 minutes ago, Nomad said:

The season closes??

The annual NJ hunting season for coyote and fox begins the 4th Saturday prior to the last Friday in October and ends the following March 15

[mazzgolf]

13 minutes ago, Nomad said:

The season closes??

In the Nomad zone - SSS season NEVER closes!  

[Nomad]

Just now, mazzgolf said:

In the Nomad zone - SSS season NEVER closes!  

I like the idea of shooting them to get rid of them, but I don't  like the idea of shooting a 30 dollar bolt/broadhead, or a finely crafted cedar shaft at them and that's when I usually see them

[bushden]

1 hour ago, Lunatic said:

I would do it in the summer if they allow it. I just don’t think you would get many if any.  
every year some club in south nj has fox/yote contest. A bunch of guys hit  the woods and I have yet to see one yote killed. Very few guys kill them on this site. We have two guys killing them with some success but the rest of us show occasional incidental kill.      I have been at it for 4 years and nothing. They are much smarter here than yotes you see hunted Out west. IMO

 

I would love to try in the summer, I have seen them while Ground Hog hunting and think they might actually be easier to hunt as there are a lont of young ones that the adults will try to protect. I THINK !

[mazzgolf]

I called one in - once (only once).

A couple years ago, I was squirrel hunting with an airgun when, on my walk back to the truck, I saw one not 40 yards away from me -- staring at me. I could do nothing with an airgun in my hand. So I went back there the very next morning with my .223, and within 5 minutes of the FoxPro calling, this yote came trotting out into a field about 120 yards away. I still can't believe I missed

Anyway, I have never called another one in - and that specific one never showed up again (I gave him a PhD. -- he is well edumacated now).

[Cripple Shot]

2 hours ago, mazzgolf said:

A couple years back, I actually asked DFW about extending the coyote season . I was told (I'm paraphrasing): "The data we have does not suggest a problem in the coyote numbers in the state. This is why we ask people to report coyote sightings."

Based on what I was told, they simply don't have the data to back up a 365-day season (remember, unlike Governor Murphy, the DFW produce policies based on science and data, not political pressure from radical bear huggers and militant environmentalists ).

If you want a year-long yote season, report all your coyote sightings (and hearings, too) to the state so they can get better data. We, hunters, as a group are in a better position to obtain data than any others - we don't have to make up data like the tree huggers - we are out in the woods daily and know what we see and hear. I know for a fact there are coyotes literally in EVERY area that I hunt. I'm trying to think and I don't think there is a single place that I hunt that I haven't at least heard (if not seen) a coyote. Yes, I have reported these sightings (and hearings) multiple times to the state.

But doesn't this coyote range map from 2016 show enough? I know, to them no.

[Lunatic]

7 minutes ago, Cripple Shot said:

But doesn't this coyote range map from 2016 show enough? I know, to them no.

To be honest it dies not looK like a great deal of sighting for 12 months 

[Lunatic]

44 minutes ago, bushden said:

I would love to try in the summer, I have seen them while Ground Hog hunting and think they might actually be easier to hunt as there are a lont of young ones that the adults will try to protect. I THINK !

I guess every area is different. I hunt groundhogs all summer long and I have never seen one yote. Foxes yes, yotes no.  That’s in hunterdon Co. 

[bushden]

2 minutes ago, Lunatic said:

I guess every area is different. I hunt groundhogs all summer long and I have never seen one yote. Foxes yes, yotes no.  That’s in hunterdon Co. 

I am in somerset, if a siren goes off you can't what it sounds like. The coyots go crazy

[Cripple Shot]

5 minutes ago, Lunatic said:

To be honest it dies not looK like a great deal of sighting for 12 months 

I wish they had every year shown to see how quickly they populated the areas.

[20a]

Personally, I don't shoot them but all for a full year season.

Against the bounty though, that comes into play and we will have people raising them in barns and turning them in for cash. 

[megavites]

year round! Z50 ....I think this one would go 40-50#