Posted on 12/12/2022 3:01:11 AM PST by marktwain
THAT is hilarious!😂
I miss Calvin and Hobbs!
Coyotes are maggots with fur. We have too many around here but they stay wide of the farmstead because I shoot at them and kill some when they venture too close. They will wait for an opportunity though. I’d put out poison if I knew what it killed. I am not ambitious enough to bait them and wait in ambush in a tree stand at night or during the day for that matter.
My longest kill shot is about 300 yards so far. It takes a lot of windage and elevation with a .22. You have to watch for the little dust clouds when the round hits the ground and compensate. A poor man’s tracer? I don’t waste .308 on coyotes unless I’m very serious and that is not my carry gun when I’m out.
My daughter has dwarf goats, but they have a large, fenced area at the edge of her yard. She has a Redbone Hound in a fenced area next to them. I can see the goats from my house so even during the day I keep an eye on them. They are about the size of a large dog. Some are smaller. They would be no match for a pack, or even one, Eastern Coyote.
When I was young and living in New Mexico, almost every gate had dead coyotes hanging from the fence posts.
Then in the 1970s city slickers and animal rights groups started complaining about the shooting of coyotes and seeing them hanging.
Now I live where there were no coyotes sixty years ago. Today they are everywhere.
I read that animal farms started selling coyote pups to fox hunters in the South as the pups look the same, causing the spread of them in the South and East.
OMG! You just can’t make this stuff up!!! Lol
HUH
Now that I think about it, let’s put these critters on buses and send them to sanctuary cities.
Day Care? Was that wrong?
yup... The faster the better.
A very good friend of mine was on a walk on a greenway in South Carolina. He saw toddlers playing in their backyard. Suddenly, a coyote charged him and attacked.
After a fierce battle, my buddy managed to kick and stomp the critter to death. He decided he would go back to his pickup to get his phone so he could take a picture, because no one was going to believe this story. He also picked up his hunting knife.
When he got back to the place where he was attacked, there was no sign of the coyote. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a blur charging him. It was the same coyote. Either he hadn’t killed it after all, or this was a zombie coyote. He kicked and stomped it to death again. Then he sliced the animal’s throat, just to be sure. He placed the body high in a tree branch and called authorities.
It turned out the coyote was indeed rabid. And my friend had broken some bones in his leg during the battle. He didn’t have any cuts, so he was spared the Rabies shots.
He doesn’t go for a walk in the woods without a gun, now.
We now call my friend Coyote Killer.
That coyote could have easily killed those toddlers that were playing in their backyard.
LOL !!
I would open that sliding glass door about 2 inches and take that animal out with a .45 slug.
A local police officer told me they see coyotes every night patrolling the city, a suburb of Charlotte, NC.
"How did a pack of coyotes get here in Nantucket? We know they can't swim that well. They are eating our cats and out cute, frilly puppies and making our lives miserable. How did they get here? How, how, how?"
They're not that big here in Michigan, unlike the ones I've seen out in N.W. Kansas while pheasant hunting.
Had one charge out of a plumb thicket at me (Not charging me, it was flushed out by a fellow hunter on the other side of the thicket)
The thing was indeed the size of a big German Shepherd and when it saw me, it swerved and took off. Watching it cross the field, it must have run a quarter mile full speed before it stopped briefly and turned around to look at me. Then it took off again and just kept going.
Out in that part of the country, they stay as far away from man as they possibly can because they know they'll be shot on sight if the farmer has a rifle.
Amen. But that is a tough call here. Looking at that video, it would have been difficult to shoot the thing without a HIGH possibility of background damage. Regular neighborhood, close houses. I might have hesitated to discharge a weapon in that area. I’m not sure a coyote would stop the bullet that comes from most carry guns. A .22 short from a small gun, yep.
He did the only thing he could in his situation, which, IMO, would have been the right thing, even if he had a pistol on his hip.
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