Predator Hunters

[Lights]

Would you like to hunt at night. Without being limited by the moon and snow cover. here is a link to a online pitition to change the current law. That keeps use hoping for full moons and snow.

Please check it out and give it your support.

http://www.petitiononline.com/coyotemn/petition.html

Thanks,

Lights

[bassman222]

C'mon everyone sign up!!! Huntin predators w/ artificial light would be sweet.

[Cooter]

Nothing like poking at a yote with 1 mil candle power on him

[Lights]

Still need some more John Henery's.

Thanks to those that have signed.

Later,

Lights

[BLACKJACK]

I don't know if I'm for using lights, too much potential for poaching deer, I don't think most rural farmers and residents would be impressed with people going around shining spotlights all over, even for a good cause like predator hunting. I vote no.

[Lights]

Blackjack, Thats It we just want to poach deer. Get with it. The poachers will be poaching deer if they want. They don't need the light law. There already breaking the law. I think being able to use light might stop some poachers. Because there would be more hunters out at night.

It would also be more effective than the bounty there trying to put on them. Read the post below called "bounty".

Lights

[cyberamish]

You got my vote!! You're dead on...Poachers will poach whether the law is passed or not. More Guys out at night would be a deterent.

[Lights]

Thank you, cyberamish

[cyberamish]

Any of you song dog hunters ever want to take a trip up to our land to shoot some yotes let me know. I have always thought about doing it just don't have any experience with it. We have 185 Acres up by Cromwell Mn (between Cloquet and MacGregor) and there is a LARGE population of brush wolves (yotes) up there. As far as I know no one in the area targets them.

[Sartell Angler]

cyberamish- My buddy and I would probably take you up on that some day...we haven't done much coyote hunting but I do have a couple hand calls as well as an electric caller. He has a .308 that is accurate up to about 200 or so yards, plus we could bring shotguns with coyote loads as well. He actually has a cabin right by Hill City so that could work out well as far as getting out there early in the day, etc.

Shoot me an email if you have any dates in mind...I know these next several weekends are booked up for me but after that who knows.

Sartell Angler/wdw

indy500as at hotmail dot com

[cyberamish]

Let me know when works best for you. We have a hunting shack/cabin on the property. I have some 90 gr varmint bullets loaded up for my .270 WSM that I would love to see in action. I will shoot you an e-mail.

[BLACKJACK]

Lights, I didn't say that YOU wanted to poach deer. The current law reads that you cannot shine a spotlight between the hours of 10 PM and 6 AM from Sept 1 to Dec 31. Why do you suppose the law is on the books? To deter poachers. Now all of a sudden the law get liberlized so lights are allowed for predators. My point is that anybody that is inclined to poach deer would take advantage of that.

Lets take it one step farther. You know the old saying, locks keep honest people honest? Not allowing spotlighting during certain hours would help keep honest people from shooting that nice 12 point that they've shined 3 nights in a row.

[BigDaddy]

Hey Cyber - Where did you get the 90 gr 270 WSM? I have a 270 WSM and would like some. You can take it off line to joe_houser at earthlink dot net.

Thanks!

[riverrat56]

Everyone needs to put there name on this!!!! It would work much better than a bounty, I don't hunt yote's because i can never seem to time a snowfall and full moon at the right time, but now i wouldn't have to.

Lights, maybe you could repost this in the icefishing forum as more people check that than these forums.

RR56

[cyberamish]

So write the law to either severely increase penalties for poaching (ex. loss of hunting privledges for life, impound all veh, guns, equip used to commit, etc), or ban night predator hunting during that period. I would think that most pred hunters would be chasing them during the winter / spring anyways.

[roosterslayer]

Hey blackjack, just a question, Is there still poaching going on right now even though we here in MN cant use lights to hunt predators. guess what there is. poachers are going to poach no matter what. maybe we should right a law saying we can not drive at night on rural roads from 10pm to when ever to make sure that nobody is poaching. Sorry if this sounds blunt. I do not mean to offend anyone.

[Maverick]

Hey Cyber, I have never hunted yotes but have always wanted to try it. My only problem is my cabin is in northern WI and there are not a lot of yotes around. Let me know if you don't mind an amatuer out with you, I just scoped out my 243 varmint gun with a 4-16X so I got a good rig to use.

Mav

[tjm]

I'm with BLACKJACK on this 1

I used to hunt yotes 7 days a week and every full moon phase weather permitting.My 2 cents is use of lights will cause lots of problems when farmers hear gun shots at the same time.

If you cant take yotes during the day time then go fishin.yotes come to calls during the day just as much as they do during the night.Yotes are very active between 10am-1pm.Give it a try you might surprise yourself

Come on high powers at night..who's brite idea was this

[CASTnBLAST]

Geez tjm,where the hell you hunting? I'd really like to know!

[tjm]

I hunt yotes from redwood falls to whitewater state park thats east and west..from Des moines to the south all the way up to 870th st lake lilly north..Thats a very large area..I see no use for lights in that whole area..Maybe around the Duluth area and limit the weapons to shotgun only

Plenty of people that shouldn't be using a rifle during the day let alone at night.Besides that yotes will probly den up all the more during day light hours then they already do from the pressure.

I see no reason to put a bounty on them either.Only way to thin coyotes out is to close the season for a couple years let mange take it's course.Coyotes are here to thrive no way around it.Use of lights in my mind is just going to cause more problems all the way around.

After hunting yotes for more then 25 years 15 of those years i hunted 5-7 days a week all winter long.Think ive seen it all over the years.

I got 2 out in my drive way from tonight.Just got back in.No lights needed

[tjm]

For those of you that are in fav of lights what good do you think will come outa it?

Keep this in mind if your a bow hunter(This could effect your bow hunting area big time)

[roosterslayer]

tjm, did you think that some people may not deer hunt and only predator hunt. There are other states that you can use lights, and guess what they can still hunt deer as well. Last time I checked I didn't see the predator hunters trying to make your right as a deer hunter harder. maybe hunters should start supporting one another rather then being so selfish and believing your way is the only right way. I could be like that and say because I shot plenty of ducks last year, I dont want anything to change this year it could hurt my chances.

[cyberamish]

I just got back from our property and I saw more yote tracks up there than I have ever seen before. They are everywhere! I had my young boys with me so I didn't even bring the rifle up. I'm thinking the inceased snowshoe hare population (and now we seem to have cottontails as well) must be holding them in the area. Need to thin some of these out. As far as I know, no one is hunting them so they are not pressured at all. There are two other fellas interested in coming up there as well. Shoot me an e-mail rnikko (at) comcast (dot) net.

[tjm]

Hey rooster

Last time I checked I didn't see the predator hunters trying to make your right as a deer hunter harder. maybe hunters should start supporting one another rather then being so selfish

Maybe you missed something here.I hunt yotes more then i hunt for deer.Think it's safe to say for 15 years no one besides my p could say they hunted yotes more then us.I could care a less what other states do.Just because a few other states use lights does that make it all good?????(NO)I'm lookin out for what i believe in and beleive whats going to happen in lots of areas with the use of lights.

You realy think use of lights is going to change the coyote population??Well it's not

Let me give ya an example how they thrive.Several years ago we had good snow all season long at the end of the season between all the different local groups of hunters we managed to leave 2-3 yotes in an area 35 miles east and west and about 16-17 miles north and south.When you hunt everyday with lots of fresh snow fall days you know whats there and whats not.

The next year we had twice as many coyotes then we ever had i know of atleast 300 coyotes shot in this area the year before(to verify this call cumberland hide and fur)Ask for jeremy

Now let me give you another example how pressure effects yotes.Lots of these same hunters now have dogs.1 would think they would get more yotes but they actualy get less and there hunting range has spread out even bigger.More yotes head for the den way before day break.

[Lights]

cyberamish I just got back from my cabin also today. There were no deer tracks or beds that I ran acrosson my 230 acres while on the wheeler. But boy were there alot of coyote tracks and scat. This was in ottertail county MN. This property and part of MN used to hold good #'s of dear and no yotes. Now we have coyotes up the #*s. Got to thin them out some.

To those that have signed the petition thank you.

To tjm: You must be the biggest badest know it all coyote hunter there is.Oh one more thing I think you need some more range you only mentioned half the state. Take it some where els please.