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    Re: Falling Deer Populations and the Migration of Coyotes to South Eastern States,

    Buck shot and rifle balls got yawls population down.

    Re: Falling Deer Populations and the Migration of Coyotes to South Eastern States,

    I am 58 years old I remember the times when there were not many deer and no coyotes then 70s-80s deer like crazy jumps in 5 minutes or less to doe days and coyotes and a drop off in deer in huge quanitiies hunting all day get 1 jump with 30 dogs of good quality. WHAT WENT WRONG IMHO: obvious coyote studies show they do eat a lot of fawns , NCWRC does cookie cutter either sex seasons unlike states where they issue tags in a boundary road to boundary road area. Tags are not offered every year and change numerically based on changes in population. Here hunters keep killing as our biologist lead people to believe it's ok. We have cookie cutter management when the herd needs micro management and habitat improvement. I love to run gray fox. I seen grays in the pasture killed on several occasions by coyotes. Now grays are almost gone and I always jump a dam yote first that takes to running the roads or trails. I wished they were all dead. They put almost all the sheep farmers out of business in western North Carolina. There is coyote s--- all over the roads in the green swamp full of deer hair You deer hunters got quit killing your does and let the small bucks go.The doe season needs shut down for 3 or 4 years antler restrictons put in place and trap these yotes send them to the fox and yote pens. If untrappable kill them. A few years a go WRAL done a story on pets being Killed in peoples yards.When they interviewed NCWRS,the spokes person blamed it on the hurricanes and trees falling on the fox pens how coyotes found there way to Raleigh. With 8 lane roads, I believe they had help getting there. An old trapper friend whose now in a nursing home told me they NCWRC purchased yotes from him to put in areas where deer car collisons were a problem. Supposively he said car insurance companies had help fund the progect . They did not tell the public about this as they the public reaction would not all be good. I love running fox and deer wither I am happy I let every deer but one go this year and I don't shoot bucks unless they are big 8s or better . Wise up it is common sense politics and being unselective that's ruined the deer hunting coupled with disease and more hunters going with dad just to kill one.

    Re: Falling Deer Populations and the Migration of Coyotes to South Eastern States,

    You have some good views Steve, but I'd hate to see any more traps set than what they do now. 95% of the ones that set traps couldn't catch a coyote in a zoo, therefore they catch everything else that I like to run.

    Re: Falling Deer Populations and the Migration of Coyotes to South Eastern States,

    I hunt in VA and I don't know what the reason for the deer population being down in my area is. I know there are coyotes in the area, but we don't run them that often. I hunt with 2 different clubs and neither one is ate up with deer. We had more deer this past season than 2 years ago, but it didn't take many deer to have more than the 2014-15 season.