because it was Sunday, and hunting is about the only thing you can't do on Sunday in NC now days, I had to watch these guinea eating, fawn slaying, pet stealing mongrols walk away. I can remember the Sunday "blue law" when you couldn't buy hardly anything on Sunday, we changed that. Maybe someday we will have a choice as to how to spend the other half of our weekend like most states do. These coyotes are "skating on thin ice" and time will tell thier future. If they keep coming around me, thier pelts will dorn the Poor House walls! We had a couple guineas we raised from 3 day old chicks, we now have one and a pile of feathers from the other. It took me a while to log coyote number one, I plan to put more effort in logging number 2 and so on. I saw a hunting show today and they were talking about a fawn study done at the Savanha River Project in SC. They used to harvest 1200-1300 deer on the property up to the late '90s and then the coyotes moved in. The harvest is down for the last serveral years to about 300-400 for the same number of hunters/hunts. They did an interesting study on fawns. They first caught does and implanted some sofisticated device that would expell when the doe gave birth with a GPS singnal. It sent data that would alert the biologists when and where the fawn was born. The biologists moved in immediately and caught the fawn and put a transmitter on it. From there they monitored the fawns, 33 in all. Only 8 of the fawns made it to six weeks old, the coyotes got the rest. They said if the fawn could make it to six weeks, they were big and fast enough that the coyotes couldn't catch them. Amazing what man can do with technology, and what killing machines the coyotes are.
the 2 coyotes in the video were following closely behind 2 big does and 2 this years fawns/little deer. I doubt they caught them, but they were sure dogging them. The deer kept looking back and I just knew I was going to see a nice buck trailing. Not so.
As you know we work on the coyotes as much as we can. We are going to do some coyote hunting in Jan. to try and thin them out. They are quite a problem where we hunt. They are hell on the wild turkey and quail eggs as well....Mark
Since their is no actual season for coyote and I dont think you need a license to shoot them do they fall under the blue laws protection? PA has the same sunday hunting ban and I was told by a friend of mine that is a PA game warden that you can shoot coyotes and other varmints on sundays since their isnt a season for them.
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