Not a big game topic, but interesting...

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/bittenx18.htm

Kamo Gari

Good article. It just goes to show wildlife populations need to be controled.I think Mass. Has a trapping ban. If so how do you control coyotes in and around population centers. I'd love to pop them with the 22-250 butit may make some people nervous. Trapping is the best way...P

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Biologists interviewed yesterday said coyotes can carry rabies, but rarely do. From 1992 to 2002, only six of 65 coyotes tested for rabies in the state registered positive, according to Tom O'Shea of MassWildLife, a division of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

Only in Mass. can 6 of 65 be called 'rarely'.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Paul J Langevin:

"I think Mass. Has a trapping ban."

For all intensive purposes, it does--all but Havahart traps were effectively banned some years ago by the Never-to-be-Sufficiently-Accursed-Hugger set. As an aside, it gives me much joy to hear those that so strongly supported the trapping ban whine as they watch their meticulously manicured lawns, abutting milliin dollar homes, vanish beneath what used to be a small pond, but has morphed into a deep swamp...(Atta' boy, Mr. Beaver and family!)

"If so how do you control coyotes in and around population centers."

Best I can tell, there are very few varmint hunters in MA. Part of the reason, on the Cape anyway, is that by law they're limited to using .22LR.

"I'd love to pop them with the 22-250 but it may make some people nervous."

Guns making people in the PDRMA nervous? *Nervous*? The hell you say!

Some strides are being made, as evidenced in the hotly debated, oft-referred to by its opponents as the beginning of the end of the world, but just-finished, and successful Nantucket deer cull.

A few more years of this kind of stuff, and maybe we can get some positive changes going.