Commission tabled the proposal to reduce the coon hunting limit to two per person so it won’t become a reality.
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Good
Thanks for letting us know
I know there cheap but all they do is kill them and let them lay
They had a “tournament” here the other night. I’d say very few if any were processed afterwards. What the houndsmen were sore over was the infrared night shooting without dogs.
That infrared in “some” cases has took the sport out of coon hunting , which my dad said the same thing when the gps’s came out to me lol but a lot of people use the infrared in bad ways as was stated just spot and shoot them can’t do no cheating with a gps 
lol
Personally, the night time shooting, to me, has gotten out of hand. Original intent by KDFWR was to thin coyotes. That’s all in good but I’m sure for many anything that lights the scope up is getting shot including deer. I’m afraid furbearers are being forsaken as varmints in many minds and not managed as furbearers, I just know how people are especially in my area.
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Lots of things are getting shot in my area and everyone it seems is set up to hunt at night nowadays. Some of these guys are killing 4 & 5 a night and hunting 3 nights a week….on properties that I have permission to trap! I’m really starting to dislike the night hunting thing a LOT. Coyote hunting I’m talking about, but same goes for coon.
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A lot of complaints I hear is that since it is that a lot of night hunter think that no permission is needed to hunt wherever they want, I have actually had one say that the book says private land so they can hunt wherever. Plus, as Kytrapper said they are shooting whatever they see. It is one of those things that started out with good intentions but has gotten out of hand. Of course, it makes no sense that you can hunt coyote at night year around but can only use aids in identification (lights, night vision, thermal) for a portion of the year, if I recall correctly one of the four rules of firearms safety is to be sure of your target and what is beyond.
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I saw a Ky kid’s YouTube video where he’d shot something at night and didn’t really know what it was until he went and picked it up. I mentioned it on this forum and it’s since been taken down. I assumed he saw it or one of his buddies did and told him. What’s scary is that A LOT that are out there shooting are most likely doing the same thing and like him, didn’t see a problem with it. I don’t know if KDFWR could put the Genie back in the bottle on it. Night time shooting is inherently more dangerous than in the day to start with.
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There was a guy in Iowa killed this season.
Story was they had a set time to quit, the caller was evidently not remote and they had separated in opposite directions. At the predetermined time the guy went to turn the caller off and his partner shot him. I thank his optic was thermal only. Witch again goes back to only shooting at stuff that can be positively identified.
When a few calves and cows get killed they will have to put an end to it.
It’s ridiculous enyhow. It’s not about wildlife management and not about fur harvesting. It’s an excuse to kill something easily for nothing.
Colt
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A friend of mine was killed by illegal night hunters in GA, they were in a closed area and had poor quality night vision, picked up eye shine and fired striking him. The really bad part is had they just rolled him over, sat him up and called 911 then rather than 2 hours later he would have lived.
Now I realize these people were criminals and I am not lumping all night hunters in with them but my point is, most of these folks are not using cutting edge technology but rather the cheap stuff that may not provide good imaging. How many posts have we all seen on the various forums about what is the cheapest NV or thermal. Truly good NV or thermal is not cheap. But night hunting is a fast growing part of hunting right now. With truly good thermal you can tell a a calf frog a fawn at 400 yards, with a lot of the cheap stuff you can’t do it at 100.
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3 guys at work are big in the night time coyote shooting. Don’t know how to skin them, and have no interest in skinning them. They killed 10 in the first 3 days of season one of them told me. Showed me videos from the scopes of shooting at running coyotes 200+ yards away in cattle pastures. They shoot them nearly every night. I asked them what they do with them and they said, we don’t move them. They sink too bad. I’ve come a hair of offering them a few dollars each just to bring them to me so they won’t lay and waste.
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They’re not the only specie killed at night that are wasted……
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Better man then me I’d make fun of them for being to girly to pick one up.
If they ain’t gonna do something with them they’ve got no business killing um.
But I’m old fashion
Colt
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That’s true. There are more coon, possum, bobcat, and deer killed at night than we could wrap our heads around I’d be willing to wager.
I agree completely colt, I was taught from an early age, don’t kill nothing if you ain’t gonna eat it or use the hide.
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I think it’s a damn shame these night hunters are killing all this stuff and just wasting it
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Me too Perry. I think, again personally, it was a mistake by KDFWR commission to allow this thermal night stuff. It’s gotten too big now to easily stop or police it. IF everyone just shot coyotes like intended I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Coyote killing would not only benefit the deer but also several other furbearers. I know for a fact many other animals are being shot at night illegally. It’s just a matter of time, a few years maybe, that there will be many justify in their minds to take their thermal and get that big Buck that comes out in the field juuuuuust after shooting hours.
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