I don’t like to mention predator calling in polite company because when you talk about coyote depredation people liken it to shooting loveable domesticated dogs, but if you’re interested in how we try to help cull the coyote population out here, go search YouTube for ‘Coyote Control Specialists’.
For many people, me included, it’s initially hard to accept that calling in coyotes just to blow them up with rifles is a humane and decent thing to do. But once you’ve seen how coyotes massacre basically every living creature they come across for no instinctual answer other than just for fun, it’s a great diminishment on the burden of your spirit when sighting them in your scope and squeezing the trigger.
Coyotes of course have their rightful place in the circle of life, but there’s nothing that preys on them anymore except man-made bullets. Like it or not, that’s how it is.
I watched coyotes sauntering down the street on Fort Irwin, CA in the Mojave desert. They knew they were safe.
See ‘em, shoot ‘em. They’re east of the Mississippi now, and they ain’t house pets. Make nice practice for your AR-15 & optics, IMO.
I've pheasant hunted N.W. Kansas numerous times and I'm amazed at the behavior of coyotes when come upon by man. Out there they know man will try to kill them and I've flushed them out of plum thickets and watched them high tail it across fields for at least a half mile before they stopped and turned around. Then they'd turn and take off again........
Suburban coyotes naturally don't have that fear......