So we all read yesterdays Post from George Wuerthner and what he had to say about the NORTH AMERICAN MODEL OF CONSERVATION being utterly ignored by the majority of State Wildlife Commissions around the USA..............And here is straight up evidence out of Kentucky showing how blatantly ignored the "Model" is................."FAIR CHASE" is an alien concept in the "Bluegrass" state in regard to Coyotes who can now be shot day and night every day of the year without any bag limits.............So as to put the complete "BOOGEYMAN VERMIN" moniker on Coyotes, the State has now made it legal to hunt the Songdogs at night from February though May with the use of lights.............Kentucky has opened the floodgates hoping that hunters kill as many Coyotes as they can day and night year round, with floodlights assisting in this genocide via lighting up the woods like a filmstage from mating season(Feb) through pup rearing season(May)----"SLOB HUNTING" AT IT'S FINEST NOW ON DISPLAY IN KENTUCKY!!!!!! ................We are out-of-control without morale compass whether it be "Ken-tuc-kee", New Jersey, and virtually every other state in the USA save California where you cannot kill Coyotes unless they are endangering people

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife
to allow night hunting of coyotes year round

kyforward.com

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Hunters may now pursue coyotes at night.

New regulations allow hunters to use a shotgun

 to take

 coyotes at night year round. Lights or night 

vision 

equipment can only be used from February 

1 through

May 31.

"This new opportunity offers landowners another tool

 to assist in the removal of coyotes associated with

 livestock depredation," said Steven Dobey,

 furbearer program coordinator for the Kentucky

 Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. "Coyotes 

are generally less wary at night, and hunting at this 

time can result in increased harvest success."

While Kentucky's General Assembly enacted a law 

allowing night hunting of coyotes earlier this year,

 lawmakers left it to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife to

 create regulations for the seasons. The Kentucky 

Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the new

 regulations in the spring; the proposed 

regulations recently won all the necessary approvals

 from legislative committees to open a season.

A shotgun is the only legal firearm for night coyote

 hunting. Hunters will not be able to use slugs. 

Decoys and electronic calls will be allowed.

Hunters on private property must have 

permission from landowners to be there. "In 

developing these new regulations, Kentucky

 Fish and Wildlife has taken special precautions

 to prevent the illegal harvest of antlered deer

 and minimize human safety concerns," Dobey 

said. "No hunter should jeopardize those 

precautions by trespassing just because they

 are hunting at night."

The night light season will correspond with the

 time of year when deer have shed their antlers.

 This should lessen the motivation to poach deer.

 Late winter is also when vegetation is at its lowest,

 food is most scarce and when coyotes are actively

 breeding, making them easier to call into a set up. 

Lights cannot be connected to or cast from a 

vehicle. Any color of light can be used.

Daytime hunting for coyotes is open year 

round. Hunters may use shotguns, 

centerfire rifles, bows, crossbow, air guns 

with a minimum size of .22-caliber and 

rimfire rifles during daylight hours.

There is no limit on the number of coyotes

 which hunters may take at night or during 

the day.

From the Kentucky Department of Fish 

and Wildlife Resources.