I couldn't agree more! No animal deserves less than a hunter's best effort at a humane kill shot.
Rats need shot in the stomach. Running shots……don’t usually ends up badly imho & no way to practice it.
That’s your way of thinking and that’s fine. I wouldn’t take a shot on a deer or elk that I wasn’t confident in making, but coyotes are a different story in my world. The only good coyote is a dead one, but where you’ve never dealt with them before, let alone, hunted them, you probably put them on a way higher pedestal than what they deserve. Take a stroll out through your sheep herds over there after a fox has been through and maimed ewes and ate the guts out of a lamb while it’s laying there bawling until it dies. Maybe you’ve never had to deal with that kind of stuff, but I have and it’s very disheartening to see, so no, coyotes don’t fit in that standard.
I get where you’re coming from, especially with coyotes causing havoc with livestock. It must be distressing to see that up close—it certainly colours your opinion. However, I’d like to point out that you don’t know what I’ve witnessed or dealt with. Assuming I’ve just been sitting idly by while predators run riot feels a bit dismissive, don’t you think?
After the job started it must be Finished . And……vermin killing is basically target practice………after you kill a coyote, do ya eat it. ?maybe take the hide? Rats? Jackrabbits or cottontails killed & not consumed considered wanton waste many places. Raccoons, woodchucks, squirrels.Not treated the same respect. I think most of us try to dispatch any quarry with a quick kill.
