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Predator Hunting
By Martin W. Duke and Renee Nolan After enduring winter when the chill holds coyotes closer to their dens, early spring’s warmer weather can bring forth different predator responses. Calling critters is universally fun, and distress is the celestial love language for constantly hungry predators. In our world, mammals with eyes on the front of…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Like a proverbial tick on a dog’s ear, similarly joined in biology are coyotes and cattle. With the shift that happens in our outdoor world when spring practically bangs on our doors, the coyote world enters a period of change. Mid-winter pecking-order fights and late-winter mating that make…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan The intensity of the coyote’s annual breeding cycle is in full swing in early February and diminishes greatly toward the month’s end. It can be the most action-packed time of the year for the predator hunter. The younger males, which are not yet paired, will sheepishly come around…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan A childhood friend of mine and I have often spoken about how much we enjoyed the occasional short, school-night cast of the hunting dogs to which our patriarchs treated us back when we were young. Given that it gets dark so early this time of the year, the…
I feel it’s safe to say that every county in Georgia is having problems with coyotes to some degree. Populations of these elusive canines have invaded cities, towns and communities throughout the state, including the metro Atlanta area. It is a fact that they are reeking havoc on our deer and turkey numbers, not to…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Along with Thanksgiving’s feast, the peak of the annual whitetail rut has come and gone, and autumn’s bright colors and amber air give way to post-frost predominance of browns and grays and shorter days. Each day is a little chillier. Plant life is bowed, broken or harvested, and…
Scott Rabon, of Blakely, likes to do his part to protect wildlife on his Early County hunting property by shooting a few coyotes every year. His latest song dog was taken on Nov. 13, but it was like any other coyote he’d ever killed. “I thought it had a collar on when I first went to…
For four summers now, GON has organized a Coyote Cull effort to provide an incentive for hunters and trappers to get after coyotes during the time of year when fawns are dropping and hen turkeys are trying to nest and raise a brood of poults. The Coyote Cull is not just about numbers, although this…
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…