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Coyotes on Posted Land

by , Posted to on 02/22/2010 07:33 AM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 09/11/2002
Location: ND
Do posted signs really apply to varmint hunters?  Really, landowners are hard to get ahold of this time of year, and don't want to be bothered on a Sunday anyhow.  Not to mention the hatred towards coyotes in general.  I wish they would just take their signs down during the winter.

I say to hell with that pot o' gold.

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by on 02/22/2010 07:42 AM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 01/15/2010
Location: nd
hey as a land owner i pull most of them after deer season but really hard to pull them out of frozen ground  if you are in my area towner country look me up i'll give you 5000 plus acres to hunt yotes on they are in my cattle herd every day yesterday shot two from my yard      email me ndfarmer_sten@yahoo.com     lots of hunting around here

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by on 02/22/2010 07:44 AM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/11/2008
Location: ND
Didn't you see in the proclamation where it says that the "These rules and all others DO NOT APPLY to coyote hunting." Really, do you have to ask this question? Posted is posted, no matter what time of the year, but if you ask, most land owners are more than willing to let you hunt coyotes. I've been turned down hunting coyotes only one time in my life.
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by on 02/22/2010 07:53 AM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 09/11/2002
Location: ND
I know, I know.  But should you really have to ask if you know what the answer will be?  Especially when you're out in the middle of nowhere, no buildings or livestock to spook, on snowshoes, etc.  I don't know how many times we've had to leave coyotes unscathed due to lack of info or lack landowner not answering the phone.  Very frustrating situation for the varmint hunter.

I say to hell with that pot o' gold.

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by on 02/22/2010 08:19 AM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/11/2008
Location: ND
When I go out coyote hunting, I have a whole area with permission, all the landowners for miles usually, just an open permission agreement to hunt coyotes all winter after deer season. That way if the coyote get across the fence line he is still as good as dead. A little homework really pays dividends in this situation
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by on 02/22/2010 08:44 AM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 09/11/2002
Location: ND
I'd have to do a lot of homework...a good day can cover several counties.

I say to hell with that pot o' gold.

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by on 02/22/2010 09:18 AM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 01/04/2002
Location: ND
ggenthusiast Said:
on snowshoes
ggenthusiast Said:
I'd have to do a lot of homework...a good day can cover several counties.
Several counties. That's alot of snowshoeing!

Yes, you have to ask. You don't know what the answer will be. Maybe the landowner or someone else is going out calling that day. Maybe they don't want you shooting them or just won't like you.

You can't aim a duck to death.

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by on 02/22/2010 09:28 AM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/06/2006
Location: ND
as far as going calling or walking, yes i think you should have permission, however, if i am out spotting from my pickup and i get one on the run or one crosses the road infront of me, im shooting... period... as long as i am not close to any buildings or shooting toward any farmsteads that is.
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by on 02/22/2010 11:14 AM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 05/04/2005
Location: ND
I as a landowner welcome coyotes on my land and keep it posted for that very reason. Both wolves and Mountain lions would also have run of my place if they ever made it towards my area.

If I could make it this way, it would be like a bed and breakfast with the buffet of deer and pheasants we have in the local area for these poor critters


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by on 02/22/2010 11:51 AM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 11/30/2006
Location: ND
Wow guys  Posted is Posted    I know coyotes are the bottom of the barrel but think about it.  Lets give the landowner another reason to get mad. 
mhanson6 Said:
as far as going calling or walking, yes i think you should have permission, however, if i am out spotting from my pickup and i get one on the run or one crosses the road infront of me, im shooting... period... as long as i am not close to any buildings or shooting toward any farmsteads that is.
So mhanson would you have the same approach if say you  got a "Booner" buck running and it crossed the road in front of you.  You would shoot regardless of signs or not. 

Landowner rights don't expire just because its coyote season.  Posted is Posted and you should have your Man Card revoked for even having to ask.

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by on 02/22/2010 12:01 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 02/25/2002
Location: ND
mhanson6 Said:
as far as going calling or walking, yes i think you should have permission, however, if i am out spotting from my pickup and i get one on the run or one crosses the road infront of me, im shooting... period... as long as i am not close to any buildings or shooting toward any farmsteads that is.
Wow!! Even though I hate yotes and kill as many as I can, I would have been one ticked off person if you did that on our land! This time of year we are out shed hunting, calling coyotes or just out for a walk looking for new stand locations, I'd sure as hell hope you wouldn't be shooting into my posted property,  just to kill a yote.

 
Posted is posted now matter which way you look at it.

The kill is the satisfying, indeed essential, conclusion to a successful hunt. But, I take no pleasure in the act itself. One does not hunt in order to kill, but kills in order to have hunted. Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the decendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter.- Finn Aagard
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by on 02/22/2010 12:10 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 05/24/2008
Location: Mo
mhanson6 Said:
as far as going calling or walking, yes i think you should have permission, however, if i am out spotting from my pickup and i get one on the run or one crosses the road infront of me, im shooting... period... as long as i am not close to any buildings or shooting toward any farmsteads that is.
You can add this post to the  list of why land gets posted!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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by on 02/22/2010 12:22 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/02/2008
Location: ND
mhanson6 Said:
as far as going calling or walking, yes i think you should have permission, however, if i am out spotting from my pickup and i get one on the run or one crosses the road infront of me, im shooting... period... as long as i am not close to any buildings or shooting toward any farmsteads that is.

Wow... 
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by on 02/22/2010 3:13 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/06/2006
Location: ND
you are going to give someone hell about shooting a coyote, seriously?? wow, tikka, mauser, diesel and fox island,      i hope the coyotes kill all the fawns in your area, would serve you right
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by on 02/22/2010 3:17 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/25/2008
Location: ND
around home where i know everybody i call yotes on posted I havent asked directly but know for yotes they dont mind. Out of my home area no way. posted is posted.
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by on 02/22/2010 3:35 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/06/2006
Location: ND
ok, i agree with that last post,  i should clarify, what i said about shooting no matter what, that is in my home area, where i know everyone and they know im hunting,   out of my area no,  i should have clarified, and to answer diesels ? about the booner,       no way, a yote yes, but not a deer.
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by on 02/22/2010 3:46 PM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 02/25/2002
Location: ND
Either way, shooting onto posted property doesn't set well with me. I know you mentioned buildings and farmsteads, but where does the line stop. Would you shoot at one in a pasture of cows?
The kill is the satisfying, indeed essential, conclusion to a successful hunt. But, I take no pleasure in the act itself. One does not hunt in order to kill, but kills in order to have hunted. Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the decendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter.- Finn Aagard
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by on 02/22/2010 3:57 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/06/2006
Location: ND
no way
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by on 02/22/2010 3:58 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/06/2006
Location: ND

coyotes arent like deer, you never know where they are going to be, or when you are going to get a chance at shooten em.. so when you get the chance to kill them you have to do so. unless you want them killing deer, dogs, cats, pheasants, turkeys,

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by on 02/22/2010 4:06 PM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 07/14/2003
Location: ND
Let's just be honest here.  Many landowners would care less if folks hunted coyotes on their land.  So, the easy solution would be signs that indicate that.  Or maybe the NDGF could send out or offer stickers or magnets (for permanent steel signs) that a landowner can throw up on signs that says varmint hunters welcome December - February or something like that.  Would be a slick alternative.

But I guess, if folks didn't want to be bothered then I guess that's why they don't say varmint hunter's welcome.  I get the point though gg.




 
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by on 02/22/2010 4:49 PM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Location: nd
mhanson6 Said:

coyotes arent like deer, you never know where they are going to be, or when you are going to get a chance at shooten em.. so when you get the chance to kill them you have to do so. unless you want them killing deer, dogs, cats, pheasants, turkeys,

come to towner county lots of them to shoot at hardly andy posted this time of year


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