Shooting coyotes.

[konradcountry]

So shoot 3 or 4  (even better all) females in the pack. Then no females left, to have litters.
Since I could not tell you how to identify the females, just shoot them all.
Problem solved even if it is temporary before another pack comes in, the deer, elk, and other critters will thank you!

And you can shoot females in the new pack as well. That is why this argument stinks. It assumes you went and shot the alpha female and now there is nothing else you can do.

In semi-urban area it could take a while to get a new pack or breeding pair since a lot of these areas are isolated by highways.

[idaho guy]

Killing more leads to more coyotes..,to a point.  In some cases that is true but its not so linear.  LOTS of coyotes in an area compete for resources.  That can lead to more stress and less food.  In turn leading to smaller litter sizes.  So you kill off a few coyotes in an area.  Well that means more resources for the ones that are left and litter sizes increase. More resources can lead to better pup survival rates and so on.

 At some point though the hunting pressure will outpace reproduction.  It would just take killing lots more than most areas get and would probably need trapping and hunting to reach that level of population control.  The argument from anti hunters is that is a reason to stop hunting them.  An unhunted population will mean more competition for resources, fighting, smaller litters, lower pup survival and disease spread.   Pretty *censored*ty to wish that on coyotes in my opinion.  Better to harvest the abundant resource leaving healthier more people weary coyotes behind.

   

 thats the real point not that killing 1 or 2 might actually lead to larger litters(can be true). You have to shoot more coyotes not less and the population will be controlled and the deer and elk will thank you. The surviving coyotes should thank us too  I have seen enough coyotes with bad mange and I gaurantee they would rather take a bullet to the head. The argument that hunting coyotes leads to more coyotes is absurd. Maybe ineffecient hunting where you dont kill enough could lead to temporarily larger litters mother nature will solve that problem with a mange outbreak among other diseases.     

[hunter399]

Shoot every single one ,you will never hurt populations with our current hunting and trapping laws.
You guys talk as if we need coyote mangement.
Only good coyote is a dead one.

[buckfvr]

No free passes for yotes.