Predator Control

[retrieverman]

https://www.northernag.net/epa-appr...omLiM9-GD8FURq0iDb0KNn-pf6lGBu6OaH2u1eDI-ZszA
I saw this on FB and am not sure how I feel about it. I’ve got a huge coyote problem around my place due to a feedlot south of me dumping dead cows, and M44 might be a viable option for getting a handle on them.

 

[Okie4570]

People freak when the use of poison is brought up........if they only knew what was going on around them lol.

 

[Timmy59]

As a sportsman I'd prefer to shoot them but if I couldn't get a handle on them shooting and they were a problem then M44 would be employed..

 

[MacFromOK]

There may be a point where a certain volume of dead animals becomes an illegal health hazard.

Just a thought.

 

[Okie4570]

As a sportsman I'd prefer to shoot them but if I couldn't get a handle on them shooting and they were a problem then M44 would be employed..

Agree but if serious control is needed, trapping and/or poisoning is like hunting 24/7.

 

[MacFromOK]

Agree but if serious control is needed, trapping and/or poisoning is like hunting 24/7.

They're also indiscriminate. So it's kinda like hunting anything that moves 24/7.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

They're also indiscriminate. So it's kinda like hunting anything that moves 24/7.

Do you have ANY experience with the M44? I will accept reading 2 research studies from a non bias source if you don't have any hands on experience.

 

[MacFromOK]

Do you have ANY experience with the M44? I will accept reading 2 research studies from a non bias source if you don't have any hands on experience.

Nope, not a bit. But if it kills coyotes, it will also kill dogs, bobcats or anything else that triggers it.

When I was a kid, Reader's Digest had an article about cyanide bombs for predator control. It opened with the story of a surveyor, who apparently triggered one thinking it was a property line stake, and died on the spot.

To each his own.

 

[retrieverman]

As Okie4570 knows, my place is pretty isolated, so I’m not all that worried about collateral damage (ie neighbor’s pets). There’s a guy hunting beside me that traps coyotes, but he’s not making a dent in the population. The cowboy at the feedlot has bragged to me about seeing 35 coyotes in a group on a cow carcass, and he said he’s not shooting them.
I’m not saying I would use a poison myself, but the sheer number of coyotes concerns me.

 

[dennishoddy]

Just so that everyone is aware of M44 devices and the regulations that surround them.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-m44-device.pdf