I never dreamed of this thread going this far. Bolbie- let me know when you want to head up to the quail woods to investigate effectiveness. Lots of open ground- we should be able to find either the carcass or sponge laden poo.
2 places I hunt- 1 the lease is specific on what we can hunt. Yotes are not included. They are refered to as fuzzy pigs. The other offers a miss credit for any confirmed kill on them and feral dogs. Leg traps are the most effective solution, but fooling a yote ain’t that easy.
Its good to kill them but if you read up on yotes they breed to keep thier numbers the same. If there numbers get low they will breed 2 to 3 times a year to maintain them. They are never going anywere now.
If we all ban together I still feel they can be brought to a very thin number.
I call you on breeding 3 times a year… Last DNR report is showing a life span of 3-5 years, heart worms are doing a good number on them in S.C. 14 years is topps for a healthy yot. And from everything I have read up on them usually only one litter a year being born around April-May.
I’ve gotten all my leg traps back and will be putting them out. Son-in-law has a pic on his game camera with a yot eating a hen turkey. He also had one run out grab a decoy stop with it and got his sorry, nappy, stinky, behind laid out.
Bolbie, I’ve heard bacon grease is a good sent mask to use around a leg trap along with throwing some road kill close by. What do you use? or just frequent the area a lot?
I know for a fact they come in twice a year in a fox pen. Yes you can kill them but not out if that was so there would be none out west. Just like dnr said they didnt hurt the deer or turkeys either. They are gonna be just like the hogs in 5 more years.
I know for a fact they come in twice a year in a fox pen. Yes you can kill them but not out if that was so there would be none out west. Just like dnr said they didnt hurt the deer or turkeys either. They are gonna be just like the hogs in 5 more years.
Call it what it really is- a coyote pen. We didn't have any before the Foreston Fox Run resumed operation, coincidentally. So yes, I agree with the like hogs comment. Our pork in the area comes from another local for hire operation.
I . I know for a fact they come in twice a year in a fox pen. Yes you can kill them but not out if that was so there would be none out west. Just like dnr said they didnt hurt the deer or turkeys either. They are gonna be just like the hogs in 5 more years.
So we are raising two litters of yots in “fox” pens a year!!! If that is the case, there is a big part of our problem… imo.
When did DNR say they are not hurting the deer or turkey population. Several studies have been done and yots are decimating the fawn population in several areas.
Dead yote picked up out of a den yesterday. Cut open, sponge in yote. But it’s all BS, myself and the QDMA guys are proven wrong again on the web
it is rare to find the dead yote in this program. Once sick, they head straight to their den, just like we go to bed when sick
and if they do not hurt the deer population, why did the dnr hand me posters to put in the shop asking hunters to kill every yote they can? poster reads “Save our Deer Herd”.
Pretty sure the article I read was out of SC Outdoors 5 years ago. (if you got time look it up). Yea still think its bs with sponge. Did yall csi it or what. and yes QDMA is bs also. Shoot big deer let small ones go. Send me $50 and I will send you a sticker for the truck window and a poster to hang on your gate.
Pretty sure the article I read was out of SC Outdoors 5 years ago. (if you got time look it up). Yea still think its bs with sponge. Did yall csi it or what. and yes QDMA is bs also. Shoot big deer let small ones go. Send me $50 and I will send you a sticker for the truck window and a poster to hang on your gate.
I will send you $50 if you will go away indefinitely.
MY point exactly flying high if they eating sponges and dying like there saying buzzards would be everywere. Archer you must be a sticker member huh. For $50 dollars I let you join mine its called Common Sense Deer Management.
MY point exactly flying high if they eating sponges and dying like there saying buzzards would be everywere. Archer you must be a sticker member huh. For $50 dollars I let you join mine its called Common Sense Deer Management.
The common sense program works well if you know the surrounding land owners for the next 2500 acres or so, QDMA has some good Ideas and at least they do try to look for our deers best interest. At least the members that practice it.
Common sense management will never work when your only hunting a few hundred acres, but it does help cover for all the “if it’s Brown, It’s down” hunters hunting close to you. With that statement I include dog and still hunters… good and bad on both sides.
On a side note, I guess If you had a large area and had not a care for any other carnivore and a dislike for any meat eating wild life, some furidane sprinkled on the bacon greased sponge would probably do nice.
For the score board I’ve got one yot in 2012. .270 130grain 125yard in the head. He died. Son in law has gotten two 25-30 yards .12 guage #4 turckey load. They died. Son got one at 50yard in the eye with a .17 he died.
Maybe we can come up with some way of reporting yots to DNR for a count. Maybe some of the QDMA money could go to a bounty? Say $5.00 for a coyote tail? I would pay extra for my hunting liceince to include some money for a bounty system.
Spelling police leave me alone, I’m not on google chrome and have no spell check.
Nice typing, Ace.
Haven't remembered to try it, Bolb. Been concentrating on getting food plots back under control and tending to veggies. Deer wiped out peppers and okra, chewed up the squash, and eating leaves on silver queen. Theyve been grazing cowburrs pretty hard in one old plot- didnt expect that. Hopefully the melons survive the swine. Trying to get some in to summer bird plots, but these rains have me chasing crabgrass and Bermuda.
Nice typing, Ace.
Haven't remembered to try it, Bolb. Been concentrating on getting food plots back under control and tending to veggies. Deer wiped out peppers and okra, chewed up the squash, and eating leaves on silver queen. Theyve been grazing cowburrs pretty hard in one old plot- didnt expect that. Hopefully the melons survive the swine. Trying to get some in to summer bird plots, but these rains have me chasing crabgrass and Bermuda.
If you got time to lean, you got time to clean.
It sounds as though you have to many deer and should probably let the coyotes help you out.
Nice typing, Ace.
Haven't remembered to try it, Bolb. Been concentrating on getting food plots back under control and tending to veggies. Deer wiped out peppers and okra, chewed up the squash, and eating leaves on silver queen. Theyve been grazing cowburrs pretty hard in one old plot- didnt expect that. Hopefully the melons survive the swine. Trying to get some in to summer bird plots, but these rains have me chasing crabgrass and Bermuda.
If you got time to lean, you got time to clean.
It sounds as though you have to many deer and should probably let the coyotes help you out.
