I am 64 years old and have been hunting since I was 12. One of the very first lessons I was taught was to be 100 percent certain of what you were shooting at. If you are not able to distinguish between a coyote and a dog (tricky sometimes i grant you) then I think you should not be taking shots at what you think is a coyote.
And Yes the dog owner should have had a vest on his dogs.
Deer hunting? This is January, unless it happened in the season, something is very wrong.
Brilliant...take your dog that looks like a wolf out walking in the woods during deer season.
Hunters mistake people for deer all the time.
Typical in Pennsylvania. At least this time it wasn’t a cow or a small child.
I hunt coyotes quite frequently here on my property, and they’re pretty darn cunning too.
Probably the only thing that would have made me think twice about not squeezing a round off on that dog is that finely-cared for coat....otherwise, it looks just like a darn coyote to me, especially at the usual 100+ yard distance I’m used to shooting em at. I’d have had to look long and hard thru the scope on that one as almost all of em around here are pretty mangy....just nasty-looking. This one would be a really easy mistake to make otherwise....put orange on em. I don’t want to feel bad about nailing someone’s pet.