Why do you love hunting coyotes?

[Jessie]

lyonch,
"What can yo do about this situation? Get out or deal with it."

Not really sure I want to be responsible for that motto But yeah, from my experience and research you guys are all addicts God help all of us women who have fallen for one!

[lyonch]

Its a good motto if you ask me I told my girlfriend before we even started dating that i hunt a lot and i will be gone hunting a lot and if she can't deal with it we shouldn't even start dating

[Dcoy]

I tell young guys there's a safer way.If they don't hunt,don't own at least 3 guns and don't drive a pick up,don't marry em.Note I said 'safer'way,not foolproof,and I didn't say don't chase em,just don't marry em.Nowadays this narrows the field quite a bit but so what,why take a chance of trouble over hunting?(no offense Jessie.)

[Tim Anderson]

My wife has no problem with me hunting 6 month's out of the year, actualy she incourages me to go..
She was even nice enough to help me skin a few coyotes when i needed the help...

[Prairie Ghost]

She was even nice enough to help me skin a few coyotes when i needed the help...

Now thats what i call love

[LeviM]

I don't think I could look at my wife the same if she stood next to me and started skinny coyotes!

[lyonch]

I look at skinning time as my time I would rather have a buddy come over and help me skin and drink some beers than the wife next to me balls deep into skinning a critter

[Tbush]

well it took me two times to get the right woman but i'm glad I did, Carrie has her own coyote gun and shoots it well. We don't get out together much anymore but when we do its great,short story, A good friend of mine met a girl and she took to the hunting real well. the day of thier wedding she calls me to take her coyote hunting, good day but had to stop ( she had to go get her hair done) and get dressed addicted??? coyotehunter shes in your town

[Dcoy]

OK,I'll fess up.My wife used to be a hunting fool.Bow,rifle,shotgun,whatever.(7 bears with her bow,deer,elk,etc)Then she got Lymes.End of story pretty much.She still insists on gutting,quartering,whatever though if she's around.Last bull I shot with my bow,went down and got her.She started cuttin while I started carrying.She skins and then bones without gutting.She's the brains,I'm the braun.
Sad dam deal about the Lymes.
Get a good one,then hang on to her like crazy.

[Jessie]

Dcoy, sorry to hear about your wife. you two sound like an inspiring love story. but haha very funny to all of you who have wives that hunt and skin, personally, ew. I am not against it, it's just not my thing.

My husband and i actually broke up for a summer, a couple years before we got married. It was a rough winter with him coyote hunting all the time anyways, he experimented with dating a hunter and her family was even all hunters, but he ended up with a nonhunter in the end

Through my research I have found coyote hunting very intriguing but I would still not want to do it. Although I have went locating with my hubby and I did like that. But I can only do that in the fall because it's too cold in the winter, there's ticks in the spring, and too many rattlesnakes in the summer.

As for my paper I am stuck. It is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I am going to quote a few of you in it, if you don't mind

[Dcoy]

Bet the article is not easy.Good luck on it.I've got a regular column in a fishing magazine and I'm on the last part of a two part article.I'm 'interviewing'a fish(muskie)and answering fishing questions from a fish's perspective.Want a challenge?There's one.Like doing your article from a coyotes perspective. I've found the only way to get off 'stuck'is start typing.
To really be fair to your husband,and to fully understand his instinct,here's my prescription:Give him a full days commitment to go along-a day when conditions are perfect. Get all gussied(camoed)up and accompany him on,say,6 good set ups.Don't need a rifle,just go along but,if he uses an E-Caller and/or a decoy,you hunker down right by it.If not,just sit right with him.See what happens.Who knows? Heck after that you'd likely be a regular here.

[lyonch]

Dcoy, sorry to hear about your wife that is one shitty deal I dated a girl that liked to hunt and shoot guns at one point. I didn't care for it. Yeah it was great to see that she had interest in something that i do so much of but i still enjoyed the company of the budds. I think it is great to get them out so they can see what you are doing, so that when you talk to them about it they have a better understanding, but for my personal preference i like to leave it there unless they insist they go again and really enjoyed it.

[LeviM]

My wife and I have an understanding! Hunting is for me and the boys! She really doesn't enjoy it enough to want to come so I leave it at that! She really enjoys the stories but thats where we draw the line!

[Jessie]

Dcoy, your fishing article sounds entertaining, so does the getting all camoed up and spending the day hunting with my hubby No, really it is something I will consider in the fall. At least I know the terminology and what is going on from writing my paper. Maybe I will have to write another one after the hunting event!

[Dcoy]

Jessie glad to hear you may try it!
I hear ya Chris and Levi and I know a lot of guys just like you.In fact that describes most of my friends to a 'T'.There's likely a big difference though.You probably are 'handy' and mechanical as hell.My dad died when I was 3 and i was raised by women,great women but city women who,for the most part,didn't know about or even want me to touch a tool or learn a dam thing about 'dealing'with things.Mechanically challenged would be giving me a name likely beyond my skills-at least back then.Thank god I had a grandfather who hunted/fished every day after he was 45 so on that I got more 'training' than most.(many,even friends say too much cause I've been irresponsible with hunting/fishing too much.I say there's no such thing as 'too much')Bottom line,I was lucky to fall in love with a farm girl that was my exact opposite.She can fix anything.A real combo cause with my 'lets try anything'and her 'fix anything' there isn't much of anything we haven't done that we've wanted. A good combo-she's on top,I'm on the bottom,but still a combo.She's had a handful with me at times but she's tough and kept me sort of on the straight and narrow.Lymes sucks!She got it near Sauk Rapids by the way so be careful Chris-especially turkey hunting there.
If it wasn't for the Marine Corps and my wife,I'd still be trying to open a door and get outside the house.Go with whatever it takes and works I guess.Amazingly she agreed we should buy the farm and retire here in Gods country(if only the mailman would stay away I'd be truly happy cause no one would drive by on a good day ).Think she was smart enough to realize it would change my life.Here I've had to learn what most learn when kids.I'm not exactly 'farmer Marlin' yet but getting there.She won't help me now til i've spent at least a day trying to sort it out.Suppose its a secret plan to get me off her case all the time but whatever,its working.
We've been in lots of tough situations together(once two grizzlys trying to take a bull elk away from us) but she's never let me down.Can't say that about many I've been around.
Bottom line,life is very good with a good spouse!

PS.Speaking of skills,I somehow lost an earlier version of this response???It must be in cyber space somewhere!