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Colby Thorson
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I planted 7, 200 yard rows of watermelon and cantelope. Had about 100-200 ready and guess what showed up last night! HOGS!! Went out this morning to check on stuff and it's a complete loss! Had about half of a truck bed full!  dang ole suckers
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Well there goes that idea!! |
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| Colby Thorson wrote: | | I planted 7, 200 yard rows of watermelon and cantelope. Had about 100-200 ready and guess what showed up last night! HOGS!! Went out this morning to check on stuff and it's a complete loss! Had about half of a truck bed full! dang ole suckers |
Yep, the coyotes wiped us out last year! We had BOOOOOKOOOOS of beautiful watermelons (6 rows about 100 yards long). They were wiped out in just 2 nights by coyotes. I couldn't believe it, wellover 200 watermelons destroyed 
We have a terrible coyote problem in our area.
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The first time I hunted hogs was in Jourdanton.
Land owner had planted watermelon and peanuts in two adjacent fields.
Guess what...early freeze and the hogs were all over it.
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Hogs, deer and coyotes all like watermelons and will wipe out a LOT overnight.
Time to make them pay up!
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| Sounds like some of yall could use a professional coyote trapper to rid them dudes & dudettes from your melon patches and lighten up on the fawn crop as well. |
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I can understand why they would like those watermelons so much 
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Colby Thorson
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:43 am Post subject: Re: Well there goes that idea!! |
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| TexasBoars wrote: | | Colby Thorson wrote: | | I planted 7, 200 yard rows of watermelon and cantelope. Had about 100-200 ready and guess what showed up last night! HOGS!! Went out this morning to check on stuff and it's a complete loss! Had about half of a truck bed full! dang ole suckers |
Yep, the coyotes wiped us out last year! We had BOOOOOKOOOOS of beautiful watermelons (6 rows about 100 yards long). They were wiped out in just 2 nights by coyotes. I couldn't believe it, wellover 200 watermelons destroyed
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I didn't know coyotes would eat em but lastnight my dad told me he saw 4 coyotes right at dark but they were between a fresh cut hay field and then CR then woods then my watermelon patch about 150 yards away!! But all I thought would eat them were coons, hogs and deer!! Nothing ate the ones a cut up in put under my feeder though!! 
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A couple years back I had a friend that was losing watermelons to the yotes. I hadn't thought of that in quite a while. Blast em!
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I've found watermelons that the coyotes drug from my garden back into the weeds. They'll chew one end off and hollow it out like you used a dipper. The tracks make it plain that it's coyotes getting the melons.
I'd sure like to catch one with his head up inside a melon! 
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Some slow motion video of the melon with the coyotes head inside slowly expanding from the pressure of a well placed round would be priceless.
Never thought about them tearing up a melon patch, sorry to hear about all the hard work down the tubes. |
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Kevin,
Give me a PM sometime. I would gladly invest a couple of weeks thining our the coyote population in your neighborhood.
Dave
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