No closed season night hunting?

WV Div, of Nat. Resources is proposing allowing year round night hunting for coyote. I got no love for a coyote,but any opinions on shooting while pups are in the den? Just seems wrong to me.

Georgia has a 365 day or night season on coyotes...not a furbearer or game animal. Doesn’t seem to make a dent in them. Just like beavers and hogs...no closed seasons.

They have been trying to put the hurt on yotes out West for over a 100 years and the yotes are still winning fear not.

Those kind of rules benefit the guys doing damage control it’s not a hunting/furbearer thing it makes no sense to hunt them in the off season just cuts down the red tape is all.

PA is 24/7/365 for the most part. Still plenty here.

Our DNR puts out info about hunting coyotes and hogs and encourages it. Most landowners want them all gone. You can trap a place for 4 straight months until you get no pics or even a track or rooting, then come back 6 months later and the place is overrun with them again. It’s a never ending battle we will never win.

We can here in AR now but only with a free permit and on private land.

Coyote is one of those buggers,,, the harder you push on them the harder they push back.

your thinking like a sportsman , your idea of fair chase.

they are thinking anti terrorism , give no sanctuary.

Invasive species east of the Mississippi, kill them all.

All true,,,I guess I just dislike the dnr messing with things.. They Have a;so proposed putting a 30 fish daily limit on an a combination of all panfish species,and the reason they gave was,,,,,we talked about it and 30 sounded about right.

I agree that its not right to kill a animal ,having little on , you don't see crop damage permit to kill deer In spring ?

I guess you'd rather have your legislafure making those decisiins..?

Yes you do.

Hard to imagine anyone being opposed to killing coyotes by any means at any time.

No they aren't.

Whack em' and stack em'
But night hunting for Yotes opens up pandora s box for poachers also.

Coyotes have no protection here we can stop our vehicles on the roadway and shoot them out the window no problem, many rural folks have guns in their vehicles in case they see one, some guys run dogs. Liberal trapping regulations, full-time State trappers and 2 planes they gun from when they can and we still have a lot of yotes.

I think you will be OK, with all we can do here I don’t know of any trapper/hunter that goes after them without a reason to in the “off” seasons. State trappers need a reason also they don’t trap without some kind of cause.

Guess some of you would have a fit if you knew about den dogs and how that scenario goes. I see it no different than finding a family of coons in my chicken coop. I don't spare the little ones because they're little or "cute". May as well go get your HSUS or PETA membership card.

The only good yote is a dead yote.

I like Coyotes !!!

(As long as I don't have to skin one)

He's more or less correct. When I was a kid, if a hunter shot a coyote here it made the newspaper. They were just moving in and it was a big deal to take one. Now were overrun with them.

I remember that.... called brush wolves

You better read up on your history, when the Lewis and Clark Corp of discovery first encountered a coyote west of the Mississippi, they did not know what it was, because no one east of the Mississippi during that era or before, had ever seen one.

FWIW I don't like the idea of leaving a den of pups to starve either. Guess I'm just getting soft in my old age.

We caught one as kids about 40 years ago and my buddy thought we had someone’s dog, lol. I’d seen some out in NM and knew what it was. We released it (never seen one brought in to sell) because we figured we wouldn’t get anything for it. Now that’s back when green coons were getting us $15-18 and fox were about $30-35.