Originally Posted by Marks_21
For what it’s worth I don’t believe the 0 to 3 coyotes I kill annually over a three county area is going to make a difference in either direction. I trap them for personal achievement and shoot them for good measure as mentioned above

If you don't believe it is going to matter, then you are simply killing them for the joy of killing. What else is there? And, this is, of course, the time when coyotes have pups in their dens, so you are fating a handful more to a nice slow death by starvation.

In the end, I think most people shoot coyotes because they like to kill something, anything.

The guy that owned this truck, (license plate, fittingly "WEAVE1", what certainly thrilled to be chasing his tracking and kill hounds after a coyote through chiseled cornfields that he did not have permission to trespass. Or at least he was thrilled until his front end folded under him. He was going 50-60 miles per hour when I saw him the first time. Interestingly, the county conservation officer was part of the 5 truck party taking part in the chase. Just thrill kills, that is all it is.
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