And then these “hunters” go home and notice the out of controll rodent populations that are eating their landscape and getting into their livestock feed so they go buy random poison that they scatter in the yard but then they notice a few dead cats and birds in their fields and start to think that the neighbor kids are out of controll with their target practice…
Just leave the coyotes alone….guns suck…..

OLS, yes – the hunters I know use the pelts. I don’t believe they eat the animal though. And interesting comment about the horses, you do know about the roundups on BLM land where many horses end up in the slaughter house or worse (yes, people do eat horse, mostly in Europe).

100 years ago a coyote hunt wouldn’t have drawn the slightest concern. Today we live in a different world. So much waste it’s hard to stomach anything being hunted (for sport or otherwise).

I’ve chose to get with the program, and I haven’t hunted in over 30 years. Unfortunately not everyone has taken the same position.

tahoehunter,
What? You are hunting in the Tahoe basin for free ?

Remember the Coyote that nearly killed the little girl years back? Coyotes are a nuisance predator and packs of them have about wiped out the deer in the basin and they are in no danger of extinction and will survive probably long after hominids are gone. These people in the media use a leftist agenda to try to outlaw and ban things they don’t like using emotion and dupes. These hunts also keep needed skills honed for many who enjoy the outdoors and this country would never be free if law abiding people didn’t have the right to own rifles and know how to use them well. People today should be urged to become more self sufficient and prepared as our forefathers were.

Whoever would find cruel delight in going out and shooting wildlife just for fun, or to “get together”, should have their head examined. Such persons with too much time on their hands should be encouraged to go out and play in the highway instead, dressed in their camouflage clown suits.

Tahoe hunter may you be stalked in the afterlife by all the wildlife you have murdered!

Humans, like native people, have lived by hunting, predator control, and land management for eons without liberals ideas of thinking they can control nature. The Libs would depend on the store for their living until something happens and then they would be the first to perish. They suggest bans on all things relating to hunting and shooting. Not many have seen a coyote attack and eat a live animal. Those that have know what nature is and know that the balance of nature is more important than emotions of what leftists think and feel and what they like or not.

Justice = “liberals ideas of thinking they can control nature.” Guess you have never seen a dam, levee, canal, animals modified into livestock by humans, wolves modified into dogs by humans, plants and flowers modified by humans or the reaction from nature to that human invention… the Hydrogen Bomb…. to name just a few ways humans have controlled “nature.” Yes Justice, the Chihuahua is just a Liberal Plot! LOL!

I can’t help but turn to Oscar Wilde’s description of English royalty chasing foxes: “The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”

In Wilde’s lifetime, the “unspeakable” was a reference to British royalty and their hangers on and minions, killing animals for sport.

Today, the folks who kill for sport seem more in tune with Duck Dynasty, which perhaps might be our new Royalty. A scary thought.

I’ve been a hunter, although I have not hunted recently, mostly due to receding skills (while my Winchester 308, and boxes of ammunition, lie in their case – I suppose in preparation for Armageddon – or perhaps until someone make a good cash offer). But I have thoroughly enjoyed hunting deer, a prey species in the scheme of things, and especially enjoyed properly prepared deer steaks.

But hunting for the pure joy of killing is simply despicable. Especially in the case of coyotes which many studies have shown multiply in response to the reduction of their numbers and, as those studies show, killing coyotes in an environment that supports them, absent the great white Duck Dynasty hunters, simply leads to more coyotes. Ain’t evolution grand?

Or don’t you believe in that, either?

Tahoe hunter may you be stalked in the afterlife by all the wildlife you have murdered!

@ MH If you eat meat, wear leather belts/shoes/purses/jackets or sit on leather car seats/couches, you will be haunted too!

i’m just glad the bunny hugger fad has waned enough that we don’t have to worry so much about being all P.C. and hiding what we do.
20 to 40 contestants? that’s a laugh my local league club has more members than that and wer’e all going.

somone’s curious about eating yotes? post up an address,we will drop off a pick up load.

Many smart people today are finding out what the farm to fork movement is, from farmers markets to grass fed beef and other livestock right from the farmer to the table. And others already know that from wild grass fed game that is better than beef like deer and elk and moose, antelope and bison. Many are learning to obtain and find out how to grow healthy non-chemical and hormone laden food and not depend on a grocery shelf as liberals do. These numbers are increasing. Emotional liberals are decreasing and are a defeated bunch of angry people and they get a little more angry every month.

Wow! Dogula, that is quite the article….interesting way to thread this into LTN article….but I’ll run with it….a lot to digest, but bottom line is we do need to use the God given conscience that we have and take care of our beautiful planet and be responsible to what God has given us. Whether earth has been here for billions of years or not. I have done a lot of traveling in my day thru poverty and rich counties and we are truly blessed to live in Tahoe. You can call me an enviro. I’m proud to take care of my town/earth and to teach my children to respect nature. Do I believe in hunting? Yes, I do! Do I believe in shooting at the range as a sport? Yes, I do! Do I think killing coyotes for prize of their weight is wrong? Yes, I do. Did I vote for Obama? No, I did not. Thanks for your article/link Dogula… Hey, isn’t the dog related to the coyote? Lol

Wow you hunters are disgusting. Why don’t you just buy your meat from the store where it never had to be killed?

Yes, Clays, dogs and coyotes are closely related. They can even breed fertile offspring, though it’s rare. They don’t like each other. I did know a hybrid once, about 30 years ago, and it was a nice enough animal, though it was always skittish.

@ MH – To a degree you practice what you preach, that’s respectable but (I know I’m off subject) you have paid and will continue to pay for the killing of animals, all of society will continue to pay for the killing of animals, all the leather purses/wallets, leather car seats, belts/shoes/ jackets, you can’t tell me you don’t own anything you didn’t pay someone to kill an animal for you, if you try….
Most people are hypocrites and blowhards, pretty stupid, people buy meat at the grocery store but criticize someone like me who eats everything I kill, everything, and they grill a steak on the barbecue and think nothing of it, they paid someone to kill that animal for them, part of the price per pound.
As far as the Coyote hunt, that’s a continued debate….

@ MH- Very cool, that is as honest as anyone can be…