As the hot South Texas sun dipped below the horizon, a pair of coyotes stalked through the brush with one objective — to fulfill their metabolic requirements. Their rapid gait slowed as they approached a small, isolated stock tank. They paused, scented the air, separated and approached the tank from different directions. Their approach would dictate whether they would satisfy their appetites with red meat, particularly with one of the fawns that accompanied its dam to water on a daily basis.
At the same time, only 200 yards away, a hunter sat inside an elevated box blind, meticulously scanning the brush in hopes of realizing his ultimate dream, “shooting a trophy buck.”
Both hunters and coyotes are predators; the only difference is coyotes hunt to survive, while hunters survive to hunt.
Sportsmen often adhere to some sort of harvest criteria in order to realize a sense of achievement. Coyotes must be good hunters or they
