Turkey hunters....NF

[ch312]

In my experience the coyotes don't bother with the turkey's. They just keep on marching by them. You never hear about them yotes bothering geese either and those things are everywhere around here. Rabbits beware though obviously.

 

Yes indeed yotes will try to nab a turkey if the opportunity arises. They're opportunistic predators and will attempt to eat everything from mice and frogs to deer and moose calves. It won't be long and they'll be searching for nesting turkey hens in hopes of taking down both the hen and her clutch of eggs. While some may be against the idea of shooting coyotes in the spring which results in pups starving, I'd rather have the yotes taking a dirt nap instead of entire clutches of turkey, grouse, and waterfowl eggs being eaten up along with the young of many other animals being eaten by coyotes.

 

Coyote populations can get out of control very quickly because they'll eat anything, can live anywhere, and have no natural predators in most of Southern Ontario.

[mcdougy]

Pretty much all my hunting is done within a 5-6 mile radius of the city dump. This seems to keep the coyotes pretty lazy in this neck of the woods apparently. Turkeys they don't bother with, the yotes keep going. I hunt the coyotes a little. have taken 5. Went out this year and though there was some tracks was unable to call one in. IMO the snow amount doesn't give any advantage to a coyote on the hunt for much. I would give the edge to the deer and turkeys actually with deep snow. The snow definetly gives me an advantage though for what ever I am hunting....or wait a sec....does it..? 3 inches sure does but 30" not much.because I don't bother.

Edited April 12, 2014 by mcdougy