Hit-And-Run Coyote Chasers Get Busted

nastygunz · February 24, 2009, 08:18:29 PM

2/19/2009

Four Iowa men have been charged with illegally pursuing coyotes with the use of snowmobiles. The quartet allegedly were chasing down coyotes in Clayton and Delaware counties. According to law enforcement officers, the men spread out and drove their snowmobiles through sloughs and fields to flush coyotes, then ran the animals over. The coyotes would be left behind either injured or dead.

DNR law enforcement agents acted on complaints from area hunters who witnessed or heard about the activity, and who thought the snowmobilers' actions were appalling

"We probably would not have made this case if not for concerned sportsmen and sportswomen who reported it," says Aron Arthur, the investigating conservation officer.

FinsnFur · February 24, 2009, 10:33:48 PM

Why? Why do people do such things?
I hope the officials make a good example out of them and hit em with everything they can.

Hidehunter · February 25, 2009, 09:35:13 AM

Bastards

vvarmitr · February 25, 2009, 09:42:05 AM

You mean there is a wrong way to kill coyotes?

pitw · February 25, 2009, 09:50:12 AM

In the 70's up here they went after them with planes, ski-doos and anything else they could get after them with. I never seen the sport in it but there were guys that paid for their skidoos with their take. Didn't seem to hurt the population much either. Now they still do it for fun but getting caught is a mite more expensive.

nastygunz · February 25, 2009, 06:09:07 PM

THATS HOW WE FLUSH OUT WOMEN BACK HOME...

FinsnFur · February 25, 2009, 06:35:01 PM

LOL! back home they hide out in the bush do they?

BigB · February 25, 2009, 06:49:07 PM

Quote from: FinsnFur on February 24, 2009, 10:33:48 PM
Why? Why do people do such things?

They probably run them over, because carrying a loaded weapon on a snowmobile is illegal. Driving ditches and creek lines isn't very sporty, but to each their own.

Brian

nastygunz · February 25, 2009, 08:21:45 PM

I believe the Aussies call them "bush tucker".........

Quote from: FinsnFur on February 25, 2009, 06:35:01 PM
LOL! back home they hide out in the bush do they?

cathryn · February 26, 2009, 10:56:04 AM

sounds like something that would happen in the south..with the snowmobiles being replaced with monster trucks...

Coulter · February 26, 2009, 01:31:47 PM

Its good to know there are people (sportsmen and sportswomen) that do respect the wildlife still. Seems awfully stupid to have your Ski-Doo confiscated for evidence for running down coyotes wit it...I sure hope thats what the officers did.

QuoteTHATS HOW WE FLUSH OUT WOMEN BACK HOME

Were those the hairyback, cornfed type of women you guys chased out of the New England bush Nasty?

Steve

nastygunz · February 26, 2009, 05:50:29 PM

Corn fed not so much hairy........the younger women 1 man can handle but the "mature" herd leaders you want 2 men on the snowmobile....one guy drives up along side of em and the other jumps off and bulldogs em....

Coulter · February 27, 2009, 07:31:48 AM

FinsnFur · February 27, 2009, 07:54:54 AM

Dont laugh Steve, he's serious

Carolina Coyote · February 27, 2009, 09:32:36 AM

Quote from: cathryn on February 26, 2009, 10:56:04 AM
sounds like something that would happen in the south..with the snowmobiles being replaced with monster trucks...

Not enough open land in the South to do that, don't be picking on us Rednecks.

alscalls · February 27, 2009, 10:37:37 AM

You cant drive a snowmobile fast around here .......you will be going off a cliff in no time!

nastygunz · February 27, 2009, 10:33:26 PM

Its just like snowshoe hare hunting you gotta get em when they cross the fields and powerlines

...its getting tougher now though....one of them must have watched one of those damn animal planet shows....instead of running the older females now form a defensive circle with the young ones in the middle..like musk ox and bison do....

FinsnFur · February 27, 2009, 10:45:15 PM

:roflmao:

Hidehunter · February 28, 2009, 06:49:10 AM

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Caribou dreamer · February 28, 2009, 07:47:37 PM

I'm glad that they got busted and the good old ODNR did there job.