Hunting license for Coyotes? ?? Why?

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Why in the world do you have to have a hunting license for Coyotes ?

I saw a story of a very sad accident in Alexander county and the WLO stated that you must have a Hunting License.
 
Supposedly safety........ I don't necessarily think you should need a valid license, but everyone should at least go through the hunters safety course that is required before getting your license. It honestly probably doesn't make a difference (if you're going to be stupid... you probably will be stupid with or without going through a safety course). I hate reading the news during deer season when a hunter shoots a person instead of a deer.... there's no excuse for it.
 
Some people would turn the world into a city park where the wildest thing you would ever encounter is an unleashed dog.

Then you would raise hell about that! It's for the children!
 
I just read an article about the incident that happened..... it's terrible. No excuse for not identifying your target.
 
We done the Hunter Safety course in Jr High school years ago. It was part of PE.
Ha! Another one. People don't believe me when I tell them I took Hunter Safety as a credit course in seventh grade.
Make that three lol
I still have that card they gave us in a box somewhere
 
"Why in the world do you have to have a hunting license for Coyotes ? "
here's why:

coyotes are everywhere which involves everyone.
in order to have ANY hunting of coyotes, standards are applied to pacify
those who would forbid hunting. as a result, coyotes require a hunting license.
 
Coexist!

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Why in the world do you have to have a hunting license for Coyotes ?

I saw a story of a very sad accident in Alexander county and the WLO stated that you must have a Hunting License.

Yea the gent that died, my wife knew him and his family.

To answer your question, landowner needs no license to hunt. Person hunting land that isn’t landowner does.

I’m pretty sure that goes for all hunting

However there be 5 counties on the coast that you have to have a permit
 
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Supposedly safety........ I don't necessarily think you should need a valid license, but everyone should at least go through the hunters safety course that is required before getting your license. It honestly probably doesn't make a difference (if you're going to be stupid... you probably will be stupid with or without going through a safety course). I hate reading the news during deer season when a hunter shoots a person instead of a deer.... there's no excuse for it.
A course, a license and permission from the state.
Anything else?
 
This state is so screwed up and driven by nothing but money.
We have 100 counties and all of them have a different “law” when it comes to fox trapping. Why? because there must be a lot of money in fox and coyote preserves and they lobby hard for the want of the resource.
In some counties not only must you pay for the right to trap, you have to pay an extra 2.00 for each fox you kill. Some of the counties don’t even have a season because the fox “hunters” are more important.
Next the coyotes will be protected because of the same reason.

We should have a year round coyote trapping season like other states.
 
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Because apparently some folks need to be taught not to shoot things they can't ID.

My youngest daughter took hunter safety at 4H summer camp. It was a 4 day camp. Most of their class was "don't shoot something you can't ID" and "don't climb a tree stand without a harness." And to be honest, that's the 2 most common injuries in the woods. So you can gripe all you want, hunter safety requirements came about because of hunters getting hurt or killed and seasons/fees came about because animals were nearly hunted to extinction. Bitch about the license, but I bet you would bitch if the herd was a small as it was just 20 years ago too. We hunted elk out of NC and nearly hunted turkeys and deer out before SPORTSMAN started demanding seasons and restrictions to protect what was left.
 
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Ha! Another one. People don't believe me when I tell them I took Hunter Safety as a credit course in seventh grade.

Add me to that list. Took it in 1980. I email the state about it 2 years ago ant they still had the data, and sent me a new card, lol
 
Because apparently some folks need to be taught not to shoot things they can't ID.

My youngest daughter took hunter safety at 4H summer camp. It was a 4 day camp. Most of their class was "don't shoot something you can't ID" and "don't climb a tree stand without a harness." And to be honest, that's the 2 most common injuries in the woods. So you can gripe all you want, hunter safety requirements came about because of hunters getting hurt or killed and seasons/fees came about because animals were nearly hunted to extinction. Bitch about the license, but I bet you would bitch if the herd was a small as it was just 20 years ago too. We hunted elk out of NC and nearly hunted turkeys and deer out before SPORTSMAN started demanding seasons and restrictions to protect what was left.
I still feel if I wasn’t for the vast amount of dollars involved this state could give a “scat” about the animals, especially the deer.
 
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Add me to that list. Took it in 1980. I email the state about it 2 years ago ant they still had the data, and sent me a new card, lol

In NH, the Fish and Game Dept. kept all the records of Hunter Safety completion at Headquarters. If you lost your original and didn't keep an old license, they could issue a duplicate. My brother had me get his duplicate when he was overseas and had leave during hunting season.

Then HQ burned down. With the original records. There were Conservation Officers who had hunted for years who had to repeat Hunter Safety because they didn't keep their old licenses.

For real.
 
When I last spoke with a warden, he didn't mention that any license was required to hunt coyotes and he also did say no set season and no bag limits, just observe local municipal ord and regs on discharging guns.
 
Sigh..... I know the dude that shot him. Went to school with him and worked with him and his half brother.

Now that I know who did it, he guy that did this should be throat punch and hung
 
Are we talking about coyotes or deer?

Most of the time when there is a non-native invasive species as the coyote is people are paid to eradicate them. They don't pay for the privilege to eradicate them.

That is what the OP is getting at.

Both. I'm pretty confident saying the license is necessary for coyotes so that they can make sure the hunter safety class has been attended. You know, the one where they tell you not to shoot at things you can't see.

Bounties on coyotes don't work. Their reproduction is based on population size in relation to prey population. The more you kill the more they breed if there is a suitable prey population.

I'm also say we have wildlife commissions at both the request of sportsmen in the past and because the resources were abused. As much as folks want to think people will always do the right things, the past really doesn't always look that way.
 
Both. I'm pretty confident saying the license is necessary for coyotes so that they can make sure the hunter safety class has been attended. You know, the one where they tell you not to shoot at things you can't see.

Bounties on coyotes don't work. Their reproduction is based on population size in relation to prey population. The more you kill the more they breed if there is a suitable prey population.

I'm also say we have wildlife commissions at both the request of sportsmen in the past and because the resources were abused. As much as folks want to think people will always do the right things, the past really doesn't always look that way.
Then the same needs to be applied when dealing with the second amendment. We really do need to have “common sense” gun control because people can’t be trusted to do the right thing.
We need to pay the government for the right to kill coyotes because there are morons that can’t tell the difference between a four legged coyote and a two legged man.
There will always be morons in the woods and having some green shirt tell them not to shoot at their shadow or fall out of a tree stand isn’t going to change that fact.
 
ps.

Coyotes are an invasive species to the eastern states. The only way to control them is through eradication. That takes people and time.
We need a year round (or atleast an extended) trapping season.
Bounties seem to work in the areas that they have been tried in Texas.
Make it illegal for these “preserves” to transport foxes and coyotes all over the state.
Where there is a will ....
 
Honestly, I'm glad some of you folks were not around when we nearly extirpated several species out of NC. Your precious critters would be no longer. Im not a fan of big gov. But at some point there needs to be some semblance of protection applied to some issues.

Now, I could care less about any protection for Yotes. You really can't kill enough of them to eradicate them, control maybe. The fact you can shoot them year round but can't trap them is a bit nutty. But I'm not one to throw the baby out with the bath water on this one. If it means so much, did you guys attend your local hearings on game laws that just wrapped up? If not, why? That's where you start this process. It's where I went when we were trying to get the CC laws changed on gamelands.
 
"Next we'll have to have a permit to trap mice in your home."

there are seven wildlife depredation classifications:

1. mice are considered vermin. no license, no season, no bag limits, no method requirements.
2. next are pests. no license, season, limits...but the methods (poison, trapping) might be restricted.
3. then it's non-game. hunting/trapping license needed, with seasons, limits, and restrictions on how (crows).
4. game animals. all that. deer hunting comes to mind.
5. protected species, like hawks. better have a good reason. possession of parts is prohibited (including roadkill).
6. endangered species. we all know about this one. Feds shows up and ask questions.
7. extinct species. the ivory-billed woodpecker has been ruled possibly extinct. under the jail.

however, if an IBW attacks your children on your property,
you have the legal right to destroy (they don't say "kill") the bird.
 
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