[aroostookbasser]

Seems the boys in Augusta are funding wildlife with scratch tickets.

Would you support and purchase a scratch ticket that funds a bounty system on Coyotes?

Simple system......shoot 'yote take to tagging station...usually a convenience store. Tag 'yote..pull tooth for biologists and collect $10.00. They file claim form with state and get reimbursed through lottery agent.

 

[aroostookbasser]

Don't get confused....the state just sells tickets it says goes to wildlife......
My coyote bounty system not theirs.

 

[aroostookbasser]

THE questions is...would you support a bounty system on coyotes if the funding was integrated into it like through the lottery system.

Instead of hoping enogh people want to hunt and trap them.( $10.00 per kill, minus the teeth to keep people honest) Plus the fur value...$20.00+ for the time to hunt.

What do you think?

 

[aroostookbasser]

Currently prime pelts from Maine are seeing close to if not over $20.00 per hide. A bounty of 10.00 per and the furs market value would gross about 30.00 per kill. Go hunting on a saturday and bag 5 Coyotes = 150.00 to defer gas and hunting costs.

 

[aroostookbasser]

okay......what's the deal...61 people come in and look over the posts and don't even bother to tell me off!!!!! What's this country coming to anyway?

 

[aroostookbasser]

Does anybody have a better way to get more hunters to shoot 'yotes?

Like This !!!!!!!!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...es?q=coyotes&start=60&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N

 

[aroostookbasser]

But the bleeding hearts in Augusta bowed to the narrow view and lifted the bounty. WE need to create an incentive.........or it will only get worse!!!!!

 

[aroostookbasser]

I am reviving this thread to offer it back out to you......should we finance abounty by the lotto schemes Augusta prefers?
:gitrdone:

 

[aroostookbasser]

Mr. Duggins.......
didn't your mother ever teach you to place nice with the other kids? Are you making this a personal matter?
I posed the question again to see if "we" could get fresh views... we know yours.
If we don't look for and find an answer up here in Aroostook County we are facing an even greater threat of deer loss than you do down there. Things may be fine down their in the Burbs... but up here in the real world we have a problem. All I wanted was another chance to hear from "everyone"... again.
To address the question about how many hours I have logged... and how many I have Killed this winter. I must be honest and admit I haven't been out this winter ..... mostly due to work constraints and career enhancements I am working on.
I will tell you this..... my insistance never faulters on this question....do we need a bounty on Coyotes.
From the fall of 1992 to the Spring of 1995 I was an ADC agent here in Aroostook County. Through an arrangement with a young Warden up here named Richter...my required sponsor. I hunted nuisance animals and charged farmers and land owners for my services. During that time I hunted at least 45 to 50 hours per week, part timing it. I also had a woodworking busines and travelled alot to shows and fairs. On average I killed 1 coyote for every 4 to 5 hours of field time...that was about 8 per week. I charged 20.00 per 'yote and the sold the hides for 15.00 to 20.00.
The money was the only real reason I did it then....... and I know that money would be the only reason for a "Professional" to take it up and actually make a difference. The casual hunter and hobby trapper isn't going to make a dent. Just read some of the other posts on this question from all of us.....

I am sorry we don't agree..... but isn't America Grande!!!!

I promise not to pee in your Wheaties if you stop peeing in mine!

 

[aroostookbasser]

I'm just a big old Tom cat.....you pull my tail I'm gonna hiss, you do it twice you get the claws.

I agree we need to do all we can for ourselves.....but the state won't let me run IF&W !!!
Short of that we have to work inside the system to change all we can. Yes plant food plots/extra gardens........ and all else you can. The deer need the food.... and we need the deer. What we don't need is those useless coyotes.
Have you ever walked into a deer yard, like I DID IN 1979, and saw the snow red with blood and deer lying everywhere..... 8 in all. Only two were partially consumed.... and now my hate for them consumes me. Roger Lee and Gary London of Houlton were there with me....I was out riding snowsled with them.( I was dating Roger's daughter.) Those pictures we took, Roger took, hung on the wall of the Old Fogg hardware for ten years or better. A testament to the carnage.... We can't keep deer safe from them except to reduce their numbers or "eradicate" them.
If I am passionate about this issue it's because those images are etched into my brain....... and I love my North Maine home too much to allow them to destroy my hunting traditions.

 

[aroostookbasser]

Hey...I just know what I have here in my backyard..I don't know how it is down there. Up here we are at the extreme Northern tip of the whitetails range. That means they have ahard enough time of it.God didn't ship the coyotes in....they are invaders. Ones we hope to repel or at least better manage.

I'm glad to see all of you coming here and voicing your opinions.....that was what I was after.
At least we all agree that there is a problem...... now we have to fix it. With or without the IFW help.

 

[aroostookbasser]

AS kenton pointed out the 'yote ain't no trpohy..... but put a price on his head and see the numbers drop.

Up here in the county we missed the economic booms of the last 3 decades that southern Maine had to assist with their stronger economy. Honestly up here a chance to go out and shoot a half dozen coyote for a 100.00 bill or better would be more than a pot of gold for us. More than a few trappers have said they'ld quit their regular jobs and trap full time if a bounty was offered on the "yotes. Well there is our solution...and a legal one. We just need to have the cajones to put the price on 'em. I have offered several payment methods to fund the bounty...none requiring the state to give up anything.

In fact if a bounty was offered the guides would see an immediate increase in their business if they pursued Coyotes..... as Capt. Duggins does.

The average hunter would relish the chance to hunt and get paid back some of his expenses. ( As Norm stated.)

The lack of a decision is in effect a decision....... I just choose to be provocative and opinionated enough for all.

Preservation without reservation......requires designation for eradication!!!

 

[aroostookbasser]

Probably right....but we have to try !!!!