Posted: 10/13/2025 10:08:43 AM EDT
There is very good coyote hunting in my state and surrounding states. However, the actual area I live does not have great coyote hunting. Due to this, I typically travel several hours each time I go hunting. On this night, I hunted just minutes away from my house and still found a way to connect on a decent number of coyotes.  Pulsar Thermion 2 LRF XG50: Close To Home Coyotes: KC Ep. 204 |
Korey Kirschenmann (Kirsch)
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Nice shooting. Have you been out much this year yet? Have you noticed a decrease in the number of coyotes? I have still gotten a few, but it seems like the numbers I am seeing this year are way down from last year. Everyone I know that coyote hunts around me has said the same thing. |
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Originally Posted By extractr: Nice shooting. Have you been out much this year yet? Have you noticed a decrease in the number of coyotes? I have still gotten a few, but it seems like the numbers I am seeing this year are way down from last year. Everyone I know that coyote hunts around me has said the same thing. With that said, I have been out a little in South Dakota as their night season is open year around on private ground as well as doing some depredation work locally. Overall, my kill numbers are on average with the last few years. I would say that I don't see as many as in previous years, but my kill #'s continues to stay on average or grow. This simply means I am killing a higher % of coyotes seen which is hopefully a sign that I am still improving plus my equipment has gotten better. |
Korey Kirschenmann (Kirsch)
TNVC Thermal Product Specialist
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Originally Posted By KoreyKirsch: Thank you for watching and commenting. Our night season is not open yet. I have to record enough kills while our night season is open to stretch out for 1 episode per week for the entire year. The video just posted was from last hunting season. With that said, I have been out a little in South Dakota as their night season is open year around on private ground as well as doing some depredation work locally. Overall, my kill numbers are on average with the last few years. I would say that I don't see as many as in previous years, but my kill #'s continues to stay on average or grow. This simply means I am killing a higher % of coyotes seen which is hopefully a sign that I am still improving plus my equipment has gotten better. It will be interesting to see once your night season starts. I did shoot a collared one last year here in Ohio. OSU was doing a study. They collared 15 initially around the state. Mine was the 2nd killed. I think they got some collars back and collared 4 more for a total of 19. Talking to them a couple months ago, they said 12 of those 19 had been killed last season. I don't know if that is representative of the entire population, but 63% mortality seems pretty high to maintain a population at the same level. Attached File |
Selling your guns to a buyback because you feel criminals have too many firearms, is like getting yourself castrated because you feel the neighbors have too many children.
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Originally Posted By extractr: It will be interesting to see once your night season starts. I did shoot a collared one last year here in Ohio. OSU was doing a study. They collared 15 initially around the state. Mine was the 2nd killed. I think they got some collars back and collared 4 more for a total of 19. Talking to them a couple months ago, they said 12 of those 19 had been killed last season. I don't know if that is representative of the entire population, but 63% mortality seems pretty high to maintain a population at the same level. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/295074/1000022365_jpg-3641156.JPG Congrats on the collared coyote. I have shot a coyote with a snare around it's neck but never one with a collar. Did you notice anything strange about the coyote (collar) before the shot? |
Korey Kirschenmann (Kirsch)
TNVC Thermal Product Specialist
https://tnvc.com/
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Originally Posted By KoreyKirsch: Congrats on the collared coyote. I have shot a coyote with a snare around it's neck but never one with a collar. Did you notice anything strange about the coyote (collar) before the shot? No, It happened pretty quick. I had just set up in a cut corn field, and played a few whines. I immediately hear some howls coming from a wooded area, and when I looked through my scope, 3 dogs were already on a dead sprint towards me. They stopped about 70 yards out, and I put the crosshairs on the lead one and shot. The "box" of the collar was on the front of his neck, and i didn't notice it pre-shot, possible because it happened so fast and I wasn't expecting to see a collar. He dropped, and the others took off running straight away. I waited to see if either of them would stop, but they didn't. When they were about 225 out, I just put it on the butt of one as he was going directly away and shot. He did a couple flips and hit the ground. I took a quick shot at the 3rd as he was entering the woods but missed. The collared one was one of the biggest coyotes I have ever gotten. The other was a decent sized male, but he dwarfed him. Attached File |
Selling your guns to a buyback because you feel criminals have too many firearms, is like getting yourself castrated because you feel the neighbors have too many children.
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They come up into my yard MANY times per year. They are always around, just more distant at times. They creep in closer, and closer,,,, until I roll a few of them and then they back off and start the process of moving in closer all over again. It's the circle of life  I'm very rural. Having young Daughters (5-8 yr old in the day, grown Girls now) on the trampoline, and a coyote looking, wanting to jump up there with them? Yea you're dead very quick. They also cut down my Wild Crazy Barn Cats and we really need those crazy killer cats. Drawing a paycheck before the age of 20 from the USF&W Animal Damage Control (now non existent) means that EVERY coyote I see gets clocked. All of my neighboring property owners have livestock. Coyotes die on site. My Son actively finds and kills them and he lives in town  They absolutely slaughter the antelope fawns, almost as bad with the mule deer young'ns. I love me some coyotes, but I try to kill every one I see. This is in NW AZ. |
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