Mr Phillips and Mr Curry need to look at reality. Mr Wilee Coyote is an opportunistic predator who will eat anything digestible. Most game, your cat, dog or other pet are nice soft targets. They even eat fox and small bobcats. They kill fawns, calvs (baby cows), rabbits, quail and other small game. They snatch your cats off your back porch. They do not fear man.The more food available, The more game you have the more coyote you have. If you can kill enough of them they might not out populate the food supply.
My best advice is to use any kind of call you can and enjoy the hunt. Even electronic calls are legal, so good luck and good hunting.
Bert

Mr. Curry and I have emailed back and forth about this, but I thought it deserved a wider audience as this column has generated a number of emails, almost all negative. As I told Mr. Curry, it was not my intention to glorify the killing of coyotes, foxes, bobcats or any other animal. Looking back, I can see where the use of the word “addictive” in the last sentence would have given that impression. It was a poor choice of words. Most of the people who’ve emailed and posted comments have objected to the use of the electronic call in hunting predators. I certainly understand and was uncomfortable with that myself. I regret that I did not give a voice to that discomfort in my column. I can assure you, I will not hunt with an electronic call in the future or go out with anyone who does.

-- Andy Thompson

That was a disgusting story you wrote about killing predators. It certainly is not a sport. I have been in touch with Ed Clark of the Virginia Wildlife Center. Please rest assured that the word will spread and this issue will be addressed with the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries.

I have been a hunter for many years and enjoy the sport, however your article flies in the face of hunting for sport. Why is it so thrilling to kill someting just to kill and especially using methods that take away from the sport. Your article gave support to this kind of person and his methods, what a shame.  I am contacting my legislators to see if there are any laws against this kind of high tech hunting and if not then introduce one. At least your article did bring attention to this issue.