Coyote season is open now. January 1- March 7 is the end of last years season...
Jan. 1 – Mar. 7
Oct. 17 – Mar. 8, 2016
From the abstracts:
Coyote & Fox
Hunting hours begin ½ hour before sunrise and end at midnight, except 1) on WMAs stocked with pheasant or quail during the pheasant and quail season when hunting hours begin at sunrise and end at sunset and, 2) when hunting coyote during the shotgun deer season (see below). Coyote and fox may be hunted with shotguns, muzzleloaders, and archery, as well as rifles and handguns with special nighttime restrictions (see
Hunting Prohibitions). Coyotes may be hunted with shotguns using numbered or lettered birdshot (≤ 0.230 inch pellet diameter; up to FF), except during the shotgun deer season (see below). Fox may be hunted with numbered birdshot only (≤ 0.160 inch pellet diameter). It is legal to hunt coyote and fox using bait, decoys, electronic or manual calls, and dogs. Artificial lights are prohibited. Coyote and fox pelts/carcasses must be checked/reported within 4 working days of the end of the season by either 1) checking them at an official check station (see below), or 2) reporting them online and writing the harvest confirmation number on a tag of your own making, then attaching the tag to the carcass or pelt (see below for details). Confirmation numbers must remain attached to all pelts/carcasses, with the specific confirmation number issued for each particular pelt or carcass, until the carcass is prepared for mounting by a taxidermist, or the pelt is sold or tanned.
During the shotgun deer season it is legal to hunt coyotes, but not fox; however the following additional regulations apply:
- Hunting hours begin ½ hour before sunrise and end ½ hour after sunset.
- Use of manual or electronic calls and dogs are prohibited.
- Rifles and handguns are prohibited.
- Shotguns and muzzleloaders loaded with slugs, single balls, or buckshot are permitted.
- Hunters must wear a minimum of 500 square inches of hunter orange on their head, chest, and back.
Hunting Prohibitions
Rifles chambered to take ammunition larger than .22 caliber long rifle rimfire, and pistols and revolvers chambered to take ammunition larger than .38 caliber, between the hours of ½ hour after sunset and ½ hour before sunrise.
Here is a link to another thread about coyotes with a few interesting videos:
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vb...eet-the-Coywolf-quot?highlight=coyote+jon+way
Here is a link to the discussion of the silly night hunting rules:
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/285977-Coyote-Hunting-in-Massachusetts-The-Laws-and-Folly?highlight=coyote
When I read your op, it seemed that you had your mind made up and wanted silly answers...
Jon Way is a Cape Cod expert on coyotes.
Here is his web site:
http://www.easterncoyoteresearch.com/
He is very anti coyote hunting... He hates hunters because they kill coyotes and don't eat them, then he relates how coyotes kill foxes (and don't eat them
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For a moment, I thought you might have been him.