The coyote hunt

Country folks never "hunted" coyotes back in the day. If you had one come too close, you'd shoot it, but it wasn't considered a hunting thing.

But times have changed. Coyote hunting is a thing now, and I'll tell you what it looks like around here.

Seems to me it's mostly local farmers, who have, at least in some cases, legit cause for wanting to cull the coyote population. So here's how they go about it.

First of all, you don't just go out and shoot a coyote. No, you need a crew.

From what I can tell, you need at least four to eight hunters, each with their own truck.

And that truck should be a full-size, late-model 4x4 that retails in the 50-75 thousand range.

And they need a walkie-talkie system that'll let them communicate amongst one another.

And of course somebody better bring a pack of hunting dogs.

And you gotta outfit the dogs with GPS, and the hunters all have their GPS trackers, and you can do that on your cell now...

I haven't even mentioned the shooting hardware...

So that hunting crew is now equipped to the tune of half a million bucks or so, which means they're cash croppers or maybe dairy farmers.

They're definitely not beef guys.


In the course of the season that hunting crew might bring down three or four coyotes... and you still get the hundred dollar bounty here.

In terms of return on investment, it's not that great.