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West Virginia hunters can get an amber light and a .22 caliber rifle or pistol and
begin stalking coyotes after dark. It is now a law, approved by the legislature.
DNR chief Curtis Taylor said the issue was to build enough safeguards into the
bill to prevent the lights from being used to poach deer.
DNR hunting regulations classify coyotes as a varmint species. Hunters may kill
them year-round during daylight, and there is no bag limit.
"There will be a season for night hunting of coyotes so that we don't overlap with
any of our deer-hunting seasons ... We don't want to create an opportunity for
deer poaching," said Taylor.
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