Originally Posted by BrentD, Prof
The more coyotes you shoot, the fewer turkeys you will bring home. We have been down this road many times.

We have been down this road many times, and no amount of evidence will ever convince the Nutty Professor that coyotes are known game bird predators, and are not beneficial to hunters.

Some of us are able to observe and reason. We see an image like this, and do not assume it is simply a coyote trying to save a turkey from freezing to death. It is a coyote that knows a turkey provides a lot more protein than a field mouse.

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The Nutty Professor would say coyote tracks around this dead turkey mean that the coyote was just looking for the real killer... like O.J. Simpson.

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There is no question that coyotes are efficient predators that will kill pretty much any smaller bird or mammal they can catch. That includes foxes and feral cats. But they are also out there hunting game birds, rabbits, fawns, and even house pets 365 days a year. They do not discriminate. They do not decide to leave turkeys and other game birds alone, and only eat the possums, skunks and other nest predators. There is a good reason that you never hear intelligent hunters wishing that coyotes would populate the places they hunt.

https://wildturkeylab.com/predators-that-kill-adult-wild-turkeys/

I do see the problem with that red pick-up truck that was chasing coyotes in frozen corn field stubble... He should have been driving a Ford truck.

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