CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — You may get a chance to shoot coyotes more often soon.
Right now, you can hunt coyotes during the day in North Carolina. But the state's thinking of letting you shoot them at night too, with firearms Monday through Saturday and bows and arrows on Sunday. Local laws may limit the state's rules.
Tom Holder, a hunter, said, "(Coyotes) will move into a populated area without thinking twice. I mean, they're aggressive when they move into an area, you need to take control of them and, like I said, as long as it's done in a safe manner, I'm definitely for it."
But others worry about hunters coming too close to neighborhoods and children. A mother of two teenage daughters, Gwen Hughes, said, "I don't think they should be able to do that, you know, because, safety reasons, I feel it would be a whole lot of people getting shot accidentally."
Still, speaking of "a whole lot," people are coming across a whole lot of coyotes. Many went to the charmeck.org website and reported about 125 coyote sightings over the last two weeks alone.
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