Alan S. from
writes to ask about coyotes. “I hunt on a lease in
questions are: do these coyotes really impact deer numbers, and since we shoot
as many as we can during hunting season, will that take care of them?”
I’ll be the first to admit, that when it comes to hunting rabbits, I’m a
meat hunter. If it were not for the fact that cottontail rabbit is some of the
tastiest wild game ever to cross these lips, I know that I would not bother
hunting rabbits.
Recent research suggests that small-game
hunting could be one of the best ways to recruit young hunters into our
time-honored culture. The problem is, it also appears that small-game hunting is
out-of-step in contemporary society. Small-game hunters are dwindling, it
seems, and fast.
On a cold January morning, with dirty gray just beginning to seep out of the eastern horizon, I made my way across a snow-covered alfalfa field to a far corner of the field where the farmer had stacked round bales for the winter. I tugged down a full-face mask and hit the play button on one of those new Johnny Stewart Preymaster digital callers. A coyote made a beeline for the sound!
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In came another group of hogs. My dad talked me into shooting. I aimed for the biggest one and pulled the trigger on the .243. I cried! Did I miss? I’m not sure. So my dad and I go
looking for a couple minutes, and don’t see it or blood anywhere. We headed back to the blind to wait for more.
I recently spent four days hunting for wild boar in the dense and dark forests of Lower Silesia in western Poland. While the drives were on, a boar could have materialized from any area at any moment. Thus, the hunters constantly scanned the darkened timber with eager anticipation and high expectations, looking for any kind of motion. It was exciting from the moment the first trumpet sounded in the morning until the last trumpet call of the afternoon. It was quite an adventure!
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If you are at all like me, hunting season comes and goes way too quickly. And if, like me, you have three or four boys who also love to hunt, your situation is more complicated. I have found some very good ways to extend our hunting seasons over the past few years. Last March my two 13-year-olds, Caleb and Spencer, were the guests of Missouri State Representative Mark Hampton at his ranch in southern Missouri.
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Are you fed up and broke from paying lease fees to hunt? Have you sworn you’ve had the last door slammed in your face trying to get permission to hunt? If so, you could be a varmint hunter in the making.
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