What Benefits Deer More?

[Spysar]

Which of these two options will benefit the deer you hunt more.

Planting a 1/2 of an acre food plot, OR

Killing 1 coyote........

What do you think???

[DEERSLAYER]

Food plot. I don't think one coyote is going to do much.

[Spysar]

I think yotes do a lot more damage than you think. This is a pic taken locally by a friend of mine. Ironically, this pic was taken in a foodplot.

[Bowhunter4life]

In one of the areas I hunt I would say killing a coyote. They are really bad in this particular area. I have found several deer that have been killed by them. Mainly small deer. I have shot two bucks and left them over night only to come back and find them ate up the following morning. I see several during the season when I hunt this area and have killed a few with my bow too.

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[Stanley]

I hunt some areas with high populations of coyotes. I have never noticed a lot of carnage from the yotes. They do get some of the sick and wounded animals. The deer herds seams to flourish in the high coyote populations. You would think they would take a toll on fawns, doesn't seam to be the case. I think they feed on mice, rabbits, turkeys and rodents as much as anything. I have watched them stalk deer but never seen them take one down.

The one farm I hunt has huge populations of mice and yotes. I have seen them chase squirrels also. I'll stick any yote that comes by the stand though. I would say the food plot may benefit deer more than killing one yote.

[dan]

One coyote wouldn't even dent the population here... Food plot

[Dewey]

I hunt some areas with high populations of coyotes. I have never noticed a lot of carnage from the yotes. They do get some of the sick and wounded animals. The deer herds seams to flourish in the high coyote populations. You would think they would take a toll on fawns, doesn't seam to be the case. I think they feed on mice, rabbits, turkeys and rodents as much as anything. I have watched them stalk deer but never seen them take one down.

The one farm I hunt has huge populations of mice and yotes. I have seen them chase squirrels also. I'll stick any yote that comes by the stand though. I would say the food plot may benefit deer more than killing one yote.

I completely agree with Stanley.

Can't say I ever heard of coyotes killing healthy deer around here. Only sick or wounded animals that would not survive anyway. If you are talking about killing a wolf then it would be a totally different story. They are deer killing machines and show no mercy.

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[Spysar]

I shot a deer this year, right at last light. I decided to come get it in the morning. When I got to it, the leg bones were 50 yards from the carcass. There was no skin only hair, no guts , every entire piece of meat on it was gone. I mean nothing left. How many coyotes do you think it takes to do that in one night?

I think quite a few fawns get pulled into dens, never to be seen again. While the fawns are real small, and the dogs are feeding pups.

[Spysar]

I hunt some areas with high populations of coyotes. I have never noticed a lot of carnage from the yotes. They do get some of the sick and wounded animals. The deer herds seams to flourish in the high coyote populations. You would think they would take a toll on fawns, doesn't seam to be the case. I think they feed on mice, rabbits, turkeys and rodents as much as anything. I have watched them stalk deer but never seen them take one down.

The one farm I hunt has huge populations of mice and yotes. I have seen them chase squirrels also. I'll stick any yote that comes by the stand though. I would say the food plot may benefit deer more than killing one yote.

I completely agree with Stanley.

Can't say I ever heard of coyotes killing healthy deer around here. Only sick or wounded animals that would not survive anyway. If you are talking about killing a wolf then it would be a totally different story. They are deer killing machines and show no mercy.

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What about that pic I posted?? They look like they're attacking a healthy deer there....

[Dewey]

I hunt some areas with high populations of coyotes. I have never noticed a lot of carnage from the yotes. They do get some of the sick and wounded animals. The deer herds seams to flourish in the high coyote populations. You would think they would take a toll on fawns, doesn't seam to be the case. I think they feed on mice, rabbits, turkeys and rodents as much as anything. I have watched them stalk deer but never seen them take one down.

The one farm I hunt has huge populations of mice and yotes. I have seen them chase squirrels also. I'll stick any yote that comes by the stand though. I would say the food plot may benefit deer more than killing one yote.

I completely agree with Stanley.

Can't say I ever heard of coyotes killing healthy deer around here. Only sick or wounded animals that would not survive anyway. If you are talking about killing a wolf then it would be a totally different story. They are deer killing machines and show no mercy.

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What about that pic I posted?? They look like they're attacking a healthy deer there....

Looks like a very young deer and how do you know it's healthy? May be wounded or sick.

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[cbigbear]

Around here it's kill a hog. If you plant a plot the hogs will
just root it up. Kill a hog so the deer have more food!!!!

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[BigHunt]

One coyote wouldn't even dent the population here... Food plot

agreed

[Stanley]

Yotes are great scavengers that is for sure. Leaving a deer lay overnight in Yote country is a recipe for bone soup. I have lost a few myself. That said I just don't see much evidence of mature deer being taken by yotes. There would be carcases laying everywhere if that were the case. I'm sure like in your picture it happens but not very often. Hunters over killing does is a much bigger issue than yotes.

[lostinstateforest]

Definitely a food plot. When I used to trap I remember reading that you needed to take out 90%+ of a local coyote population to have less the next year. Meaning if you had 10 and killed 8 or less you would still have 10 next year. I do believe coyote hurt deer population though. The best time to kill a coyote is fawning season, they are on feeding frenzy.

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[Spysar]

I don't think they take mature healthy deer either. I say they are doing the damage at birthing season.