Coyotes During Fawning Season
Everyone knows coyotes are killing their deer fawns. But how many? Well, while it's hard to make a statement that covers predation in the entire country, university studies in Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama have shown a significant amount of deer hair in coyote scat during the fawning season.
In studies conducted by the University of Georgia Deer Research Laboratory, during the late spring and early summer months, they would find fawn hair in 50-60% of coyote scat samples!!!
Coyotes are opportunistic eaters and will eat whatever is in abundance at the time. This means, the fawning season is the best time to lay some steel and trap some coyotes!
For more direct information from Dr. Karl V. Miller and the UGA Deer Research Laboratory, check out these links so you can better understand how to manage your deer herd during the fawning season!
Opening Day - The Best Day of the Year
The first day of deer season is practically a holiday where we come from - as it should be. There is nothing better than getting out there for your first hunt of the year. You’ve been preparing for months, if not the entire year, and this is what it all boils down to! Your bow is adjusted and sighted in, your food plots are lush, you’ve got your tags, and everything is ready to go.
Hunting on opening day of bow season isn’t even about harvesting a monster buck (although it’s important to remember that anything can happen). Opening day is about being out there and feeling the joys that only come from the outdoors - something very few people on earth get to experience. The first moment of peace you feel when you settle down in your stand for the first hunt of the year is a feeling you can’t replicate. After months of rushing around and getting everything in order to make this moment possible you get to relax. It’s a classic game of...
