Coyote Attack
I think they should just declare open season on them or allow hikers to pack a sidearm.
I think they should just declare open season on them or allow hikers to pack a sidearm.
Hunting & Fishing Another reason I love seeing dead yotes...
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Re: Another reason I love seeing dead yotes...
you guys are going straight to Hell for that one... LOL
you guys are going straight to Hell for that one... LOL
Re: Another reason I love seeing dead yotes...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MinorDamage</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Coyote Attack
I think they should just declare open season on them or allow hikers to pack a sidearm. </div></div>
Sidearm, hell.
Couple of years back (Nov 07) I decided to try out some Sunday hunting in the middle of a hunting week, so drove up through heavy snow past Ya Ha Tinda ranch (Sundre/AB) on the Panther River. Had all the primary tags for that WMU, including black bear.
Drove up the mountain at the end of the road until the snow was getting too deep for the truck, so turned back down into the valley. Back on the valley floor I surprised a big old dark bear laying down in the middle of the road. He stood up and looked, then trotted off down a horsetrail. Couldn't say if it was a grizz or blackie, so parked the truck and went after him with my gear to take a better look. He turned on his 4-wheel drive and went up the mountainside into really heavy trees. I followed for a bit until things got uncomfortable - best to keep a good perimeter distance from something like that which might be sitting uphill from you
Must have pissed him off something fierce - a few days later another hunter was killed by a grizz at exactly the same place. Wildlife officers say he got off one shot before being mauled to death. Never found that bear. Last year, in the same place, still another hunter got mauled to death, this time by a sow grizz. They found and shot that one from a helicopter. Then, somebody lost several head of small horses to a bear near that area not too long ago.
Cougars have jumped and mauled back-country hikers/skiers a few times just west of Calgary too, over the last 10 years, causing inexplicable 'shock and awe' amongst the tree-hugging set.
Same with bull elk. The damn tourists have no idea what a fast 1000-pound animal with a head full of sharp horns can do to you when it gets pissed off, even a little bit. Think 10 bayonets welded to the front of a car. Finally the government just spent a few million dollars putting up chain-link fence all through the park corridor to keep the elk out and the people in.
After hunting up in the mountains for the last couple of decades and seeing the sign of all the animals that are out there, such as all the bark torn right off a spruce up to 12 off the ground, carcasses from kills, and tracks of how the animals move, I find it absolutely amazing that anyone would go 25 feet past their truck without a medium big bore, or without keeping their eyes and ears open all around them 110% of the time.
(BTW, there is open season on coyotes in many places, sort of like wild hogs)
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MinorDamage</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Coyote Attack
I think they should just declare open season on them or allow hikers to pack a sidearm. </div></div>
Sidearm, hell.
Couple of years back (Nov 07) I decided to try out some Sunday hunting in the middle of a hunting week, so drove up through heavy snow past Ya Ha Tinda ranch (Sundre/AB) on the Panther River. Had all the primary tags for that WMU, including black bear.
Drove up the mountain at the end of the road until the snow was getting too deep for the truck, so turned back down into the valley. Back on the valley floor I surprised a big old dark bear laying down in the middle of the road. He stood up and looked, then trotted off down a horsetrail. Couldn't say if it was a grizz or blackie, so parked the truck and went after him with my gear to take a better look. He turned on his 4-wheel drive and went up the mountainside into really heavy trees. I followed for a bit until things got uncomfortable - best to keep a good perimeter distance from something like that which might be sitting uphill from you
Must have pissed him off something fierce - a few days later another hunter was killed by a grizz at exactly the same place. Wildlife officers say he got off one shot before being mauled to death. Never found that bear. Last year, in the same place, still another hunter got mauled to death, this time by a sow grizz. They found and shot that one from a helicopter. Then, somebody lost several head of small horses to a bear near that area not too long ago.
Cougars have jumped and mauled back-country hikers/skiers a few times just west of Calgary too, over the last 10 years, causing inexplicable 'shock and awe' amongst the tree-hugging set.
Same with bull elk. The damn tourists have no idea what a fast 1000-pound animal with a head full of sharp horns can do to you when it gets pissed off, even a little bit. Think 10 bayonets welded to the front of a car. Finally the government just spent a few million dollars putting up chain-link fence all through the park corridor to keep the elk out and the people in.
After hunting up in the mountains for the last couple of decades and seeing the sign of all the animals that are out there, such as all the bark torn right off a spruce up to 12 off the ground, carcasses from kills, and tracks of how the animals move, I find it absolutely amazing that anyone would go 25 feet past their truck without a medium big bore, or without keeping their eyes and ears open all around them 110% of the time.
(BTW, there is open season on coyotes in many places, sort of like wild hogs)
