re: Coyote hunting

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That said, I think it would take a very serious coyote infestation to really hurt the deer. Coyotes are just not that formidable of a predator. Feral dogs and wolves are different, but I can't see a coyote doing much damage to the deer population.

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Have to correct you. I read a study that a biologist did in E.Feliciana parish. He caught a femal and collared her to track her to her den. He put a camera up and that fall she brought 8 fawns into her den.
A few years ago I found a small 6 point dead on a creek. I crossed that sandbar the evening before coming out from a hunt. The next morning there was blood and tracks everywhere. At daylight I followed it and these coyotes had run this 6pt down.

No doubt that they can and will feed on deer as a main food source.

To the OP. When I was a teen Id set up in a field that bordered a section of woods where I always heard them get cranked up in the evenings. On full moon nights Id take a bucket or two of the chicken livers from the store and put it 60-75 yards out from the woodline. Id blow on that rabbit swuealer call and eventually one or two would make a pass checking things out. Kinda like a scout. Not long after the whole pack would come out. That's when id let the lead sling. Fun times