Our friends Joe Butera and Mollie Matteson sent me this disturbing OUTDOORS MAGAZINE article entitled: BEAT THE COLD;KILL A COYOTE.............The hunting and fishing magazines seem to feel that they have to preach "annihilation to their shrinking readership so as to keep them feeling macho and masculine..................Is that the message that is going to attract younger people to hunt?.................NO F---K--G WAY!(pardon my French on this ...........ticks me off..............I am in airports weekly around the USA and every single hunting mag preaches KILL COYOTES, BEARS, COUGARS, WOLVES.................The justification for this................"they are bloodthirsty predators"....................Well, Jeez, Louise,,,,,,,,,,,,,what does that make us then with our high powered weapons and killing equipment...............choir boys????????????????

From: Mollie Matteson
Conservation Advocate
Center for Biological Diversity
Northeast Field Office
PO Box 188
Richmond, VT 05477
802-434-2388 (office)
802-318-1487 (cell)
mmatteson@biologicaldiversity.org
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

Beat the Cold: Kill a Coyote(as printed in Outdoors Magazne)

With temperatures predicted to drop well below zero over the next three days across the East, many people are preparing for a weekend of watching football and sitting by a fireplace.  Devout predator hunters are taking a different view though, and to them the impending temperatures are a reason for celebration.
The colder the better, said Bill Savage, a coyote hunting specialist from the Tug Hill Region of New York. My best days coyote hunting are when the temperature never gets above zero.  If it gets as cold as they say it will well,  lets just say I am like a kid in a candy store.
Bob Howe, the owner of Pine Grove Lodge in Bingham, Maine, has a simple explanation for this phenomenon. In essence, in the colder weather a coyote needs to expend more energy to stay warm. This means they need to feed more, and the hunters who have their baits set will reap the rewards.  Everybody thinks coyotes will only hit the bait in the evening or at night, but that time around noon can also be very productive, said Howe. Two of his hunters experienced this first hand earlier today when they both killed coyotes hitting baits a few minutes past 11:00 a.m.
Coyote hunting in the extreme cold does take some special preparation.  Gun actions can freeze and calls can act and sound differently than in warmer conditions. Plus, there are the inherent dangers that come with below-zero temperatures. For those willing to pay the price though the rewards cant be beat.
For more information and predator hunting tricks, check out the March issue of Outdoors Magazine with a special insert When Hunters Become The Hunted�detailing the methods some of the East's best use to put fur in the shed.