So....
This is about hunting success, right?
We should let the ranchers lose their family ranch, because we change things up, and make the gov't stop trying to do ADC work, so that a few hunters can have a couple of successful days in the field, right?
There's also something else that works. Go to an area that doesn't have sheep. Simple.
I do it all the time. The sheep ranchers here would LOVE for me to come out and call all weekend to see what I can kill on their ranch. But, it's not worth me time. I'll not call all weekend on a ranch to get a shot at one coyote.
So, I plan my hunting time around where the coyaotes ARE.
Smsnyder, you being from PA and all, you do realize that it's a totally diferent world out west. The west is basically devoted to agriculture...The same agriculture that feeds the world.
I'm not saying anything against you I'm just giving you a different perspective on things. Perhaps I shouldn't. I don't know. It's like speaking Spanish to someone that doesn't speak Spanish.
Here's a link that perhaps you could visit & join up with:
http://www.apnm.org/campaigns/coyotes/NM_assult.php
The ranchers are a BIG part of why we have places to hunt.
Without the ranches, how many members here would have a place to hunt? Not many....
If we put them out of business so that few guys can take a hunting vacation from back east and kill a few coyotes for their personal entertainment and enjoyment......Well, see what I mean? I doesn't quite add up, does it?
My first advice is that if you are planning a hunting trip...No matter if it's in your same county, do the small amount of investigation to determine if there are actually coyotes in the area you plan to hunt.
I have a hard time understanding the train of thought behind this thread. I hope that the ranchers reading it are minimal....Because if they percieve members of PM coming out for something that will put them out of business for good, and cause them to lose the ranch that they have a hard enough time keeping in the family, then I strongly suspect that the whole community of coyote hunters WILL have way more locked gates and access problems.
That's not what we are about here.
We are out to actually help the ranchers & be educated about what kind of damage predators can do to livestock & wildlife resources.
We are not about trying to change the laws to force our allies, the ranchers, out of business because we had a bad weekend hunting, and feel sorry for ourselves because we came into a region of the U.S. that we don't live in , nor understand, and had a hard time calling a coyote.
The predator hunters and ranchers down here, and throughout the West stand united to save the hunting priveldges that groups like the link I posted above would see stripped.
Ranchers and hunters have always enjoyed that relationship.
I know I won't stand by and let someone that DOESN'T have a vested interest in the area slam the very people that give us our places to hunt.
Just my .02's worth.
Barry