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Predator Hunting
Hunters and deer managers face a new reality in the Southern woods. In case you haven’t heard—maybe you’re a new reader of GON—coyotes are here and having a significant impact on deer populations on some pieces of property. It’s a story we’ve been researching and telling for years. Just how dramatic an impact coyotes could…
When it’s cold, coyotes get hungry. Long about January, blow on a squealing rabbit call, and a coyote won’t waste much time checking out the scene before another predator slides in for the free meal. Or, put a leg-hold trap in the ground and make a dirt-hole set above it. Drop a spoonful of smelly…
GON is bringing back our annual Coyote Cull this May and June, and this year we are offering four great prizes with a total value of more than $1,800, including a $725 rifle. By leveraging great support from industry sponsors who are as concerned about the coyote situation as we are, GON uses the Coyote…
Larry Burns was headed to pump a well in Oklahoma when he saw a sight that he says he has seen every year for the past 10 years. Dead coyotes were hanging on fence posts for as far as the eye could see. This practice of hanging dead coyotes on fence posts dates back to the mid-1900s, when…
The latest coyote attack to take place in Georgia happened earlier this week as a Roswell jogger was out for his morning run. “It was 6:20 in the morning, it was still pretty dark out,” said Bill Goff, a resident in the area of Plantation Way and Lake Charles Drive in the north Atlanta suburbs. The coyote attacked…
For a time, it seemed like trapping was becoming a lost art. Georgia Trappers Association is a non-profit organization that has been keeping trapping alive over the years, and now GTA is helping get more and more people into trapping as coyote problems take a bite out of wildlife across the state. The 35th annual…
For the third summer, GON’s Coyote Cull effort has provided incentive for hunters and trappers to get after coyotes during the fawning and turkey nesting seasons. The generous support of Coyote Cull sponsors combined with some elbow grease from GON staffers again brought awareness to the damaging impact this non-native, invasive species is having across…
In 2006, GON began sounding the alarm about the impacts coyotes were having, specifically on deer fawns. Dozens of articles and a decade later, the evidence is overwhelming. Coyotes have hammered deer, dropping fawn survival rates so low that deer hunting is being restricted through increased buck-only days to limit harvest. Talked to a turkey…
In July, I was lucky to win the first-place gun in GON’s Coyote Cull contest, and as a thank you to GON, I offered to share my techniques on trapping coyotes. It’s really cool helping others get started, and then they start sharing their successes. On a duck hunt in Louisiana two years ago, a…
John Hunt, of Blackshear, recently had a hunting experience he will never forget. On the morning of Oct. 13, John did as he would normally do to begin a hunt. He parked his truck and began his 400-yard trek to his stand on some private Ware County property that he often hunts. It was the…