Look big, look strong, and a 44 magnum never hurts.
—”Look big, look strong, and a 44 magnum never hurts.”
We were overrun with coyotes a few winters back.
Every night I take the dogs out for a mile or two, and we were seeing MANY of them, occasionally two and three at a time.
One evening the dogs spot something I cannot see, they will lock in on anything, skunks, coons, rabbits...
Oh crap! It is two coyotes heading our way like they own the street!
We stop, usually, the coyotes will change direction when they see us, not this night.
They ran up to approximately fifty feet and STOPED!
NOT GOOD, I do not want to ‘backup’.
My two Australian Shepherds, 47 and 60 pounds, usually ignore coyotes, and sometimes it appeared to me they would like to run with them?
Both on a ‘Y’ leash, not making a sound or moving, they do not seem afraid, like with a nearby firecracker.
When were are out on the run, it is like two dogs one brain.
One will hear something on her side and then both are focusing on it.
The coyotes start slowly moving in our direction.
I shout; nothing.
I start doing jumping-jacks and shouting, the dogs are kind of twitching.
The dogs are now pulling on the leash and heads lowered.
The coyotes are about twenty feet.
The leash is always on a belt in case I slip on the ice or something.
The coyotes start tacking away slowly and are gone.
This is suburban DuPage county, the houses are not on a grid or any pattern.
At this location, there is a large ranch-style home immediately down range (close and many windows, frame construction a .22 could penetrate the exterior when not hitting a stud).
I am carrying a Colt.25 ACP, but only planning on using it as a noisemaker.
And being a young septuagenarian, my RT (Reaction Time) can easily be measured on a kitchen clock.
.44 magnum, heavy, loud, expensive, and depending on the load
may cause night blindness from the flash.
Most likely the cops will come by and if you are still out, will confiscate your piece, never to be seen again.