Originally Posted By: emptymagGreat reads, as always! Thanks for posting all of this, much appreciated and very interesting.
Keep it up.
What’s the total for the year?
And if you don’t mind me asking, what’s your total lifetime number of coyotes killed?
Thank you emptymag for the comments
My total for this fall (to date) is 19. A late start due to warm conditions for most of November. The coyote numbers in some of the prime areas I use to frequent are down due to various reasons. That and I'm not hunting as hard as I used to. I'll go out and do a set or two which keeps my interest up. The all morning or all day coyote hunts have become a thing of the past. I still enjoy going out but I'm not quite as dedicated anymore. ( It could be an age thing also
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As far as grand total for coyotes harvested, I went back to page 34 and copied and pasted this post. I posted it on Wiley E Coyote post.
This was from March 04 2015:
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Registered: 12/04/04
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Loc: Central Alberta
I wish I would have kept track of the coyote numbers over the years
I have kept track since the 2002/2003 season when the Predator Hunt Canada site first appeared (gone now) and I'm sitting at 936 now. What I shot in the 70's 80's and 90's, I have no idea.
I have added roughly 390 coyotes to those numbers since 2015 making an approximate total of 1,326
Like mentioned in my 2015 post, I have no idea what my totals were in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
I do know of a few years in the 1990's that netted well over a 100 per season but those were the years coyote pelts weren't worth much resulting in no hunting pressures and a high population of coyotes. Those were the years! I recall one cold morning in January 1997, a working partner and I were travelling our route and counted 74 coyotes that morning. How things have changed, I can go days driving the country roads and never see a coyote now. They're still around but just tougher to find