”Nobody needs an AR-15!”
Posted on 01/31/2023 7:23:50 AM PST by bigfootbob
A decade or more ago, a middle-aged couple in Washington State settled in on some acreage near the Hood Canal. They started raising chickens and sheep. All was going well, but coyotes started showing up, killing and eating their livestock.
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“SSS”
Should use your ‘Assault Rifle’ (Military Style)-15 with bump stock and suppressors, and a 100 bullet ‘clip’. There, did I include all of the liberal bs for killing Coyotes?
Nice story!
I have a similar tale.
I was SO hoping for a different cayote story.
”Nobody needs an AR-15!”
would coyotes be scared-off if they saw/smelled dead coyote nearby? ie) if the landowner somehow left the coyote carcasses bordering his property.
I believe some animals would be - but don’t know about coyotes
I lived for a while on a military post. This was a test location so very few actual military. Lots of civlians lived on post since it was an hours drive to the next town.
A lady let her new pup out for few minutes. A coyote was seen running off with the dead pup in it’s mouth. A few days later the installation commander sent an All Hands email cautioning that it was against post regulations to shoot coyote even to protect your pets and violaters would be punished.
A couple of days later I was walking my Great Dane when a post security officer stopped to talk. He asked if I had seen the message. He told me that the post commander was a good man. He said that he wanted me to understand that if a rifle shot was reported to security, that security would certainly investigate. However, he followed on, security was overworked and undermanned, it might take them a couple of hours to actually start investigating the shot. I thanked him and told him I certainly understood.
Over the next few weeks, I didn hear a shot or two but never heard of anyone being punished.
The post commander was a bit naive. He told my neighbor that we was suprised to learn that there were over 900 firearms registered on post and that was over 2 firearms for every man, woman, child. My neighbor shocked him when he noted that the 900 was only the registered ones.
The Movie “The Biggest Little Farm” was good and entertaining, a movie how a couple brought a farm back to life near LA with organic methods. However I was skeptical of its supposed account of coyotes.
They let the coyotes go and do as they pleased and actually benefitted as they ate the small vermin like mice etc So the occasional chicken or duck they took was sort of a tax but worth it.
I was raised as a farm boy and we had chickens and ducks. My experience wasn’t at all like that. Once a coyote got one kill they became almost addicted and wouldn’t stop until the flock was wiped out. Unlike this article we seldom managed to stop them as they were crafty and would sneak in the dead of night. It sounds fine to stay up all night with a light and a gun but that gets tiring very fast. Usually either the flock would just be eaten or we’d have to lock them up for a few months until the coyotes left.
Maybe LA coyotes are different than ones in Indiana???
No, I know crows will but they are really hard to shoot.
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I hunt em quite frequently around here....although not lately.
I’ve seen em run up and jump on a backdoor deck, snatch a pet cat and keep right on going without even slowing down....
Depending on the time of year (breeding season) coyotes may look on them as being a free meal.
A code to live by!
I have seen multiple coyotes hanging on a barbed wire fence and the explanation is that the other coyotes would stay away if they saw smelled their brethren hanging there dead. No idea if there is any truth to it.
There was a corner like that in Northwest Houston area back in the 60’s called Wolf corner. Dead wolves and coyotes were hung from the fence on either side of the corner post.
Yes, in many ways.
“Should use your ‘Assault Rifle’ (Military Style)-15 with bump stock and suppressors, and a 100 bullet ‘clip’. There, did I include all of the liberal bs for killing Coyotes?”
For predator and invasive control Bump Stocks are BS, 30rds hampers the sand bag rifle rests, suppressors (for .22 long rifle) work well with herds of pigs, and a 10/22 with night scoops reign supreme (for pig temple shots). Fir pigs, use a blind for your odor control, get there early and prepare for a long night. Although 18” barrels are cool and stylish, go longer for real accuracy. Otherwise stick to combat shooting competition.
My son lived on some land with 2 emu’s. Coyotes were scared to death of them. When one of the emu’s died, the remaining one became a member of the flock of chickens on the property.
In the olden days when I lived in the west people would shoot coyotes and hang them on the fence near the gate. It was normal to see lots of hanging coyotes, mountain lions and Golden eagle hanging on fences in 1960.
Then animal rights groups sprang up in the late 1960s and 1970s, and soon it was rare to see anything hanging on the fence.
Now it is SSS. (Shoot, shovel, shut up.)
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