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I was just involved in a discussion about this with some guys from PA on another board. Kinda seems to me that coyotes arent your problem, its your fish and game commission and hunters. Huge numbers of deer killed. Not to mention how many are wounded and left to die and hit by cars and poached. Its gonna take a toll.
I saw a report that a huge amount of deer was found in coyote scat in a study in PA. Thats all well and fine, but like one of the guys said, the areas they were taken in had alot of dead deer from cars already, along roads, and its like taking human samples from Dennys bathroom to see what people are eating.
Coyote predation is always over stated. Im not buying coyotes being the root of the problem with PAs deer herd. Josh, Im sure not buying packs of coyotes bringing down big bucks. Not gonna happen. Weak deer, small deer, fawns, yeah, some anyway, but not big bucks. Normally the only time coyotes feed on larger game is in whelping season, spring and early summer, and thats normally only when one of the parents has been killed by a do gooder "hunter" and they are forced to feed the pups alone instead of in pairs like they are meant to.
Ill look up some of these studies that was on that other thread. I would be willing to bet coyotes arent your problem though.
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