From a distance? Like crapping in my trees in the front yard? Cuz that’s how close they get to me. 15 feet from the front door.
I have 100 acres here in Indiana, last coyote I shot was on my back patio chasing a squirrel that did something I had never seen before, it ran straight up the inside of my downspout while being chased.
Closest gun was in the corner I was using for taking pot shots at beavers in my lake. A .45/70 that at the time I had loaded with 576 gr. hard cast pile drivers that will hit the water on an angle and still have enough oomph to continue on through the submerged body, unlike high velocity rounds that just fragment on impact.
It was a male, a large one, and I got him in the rear corner taking his entire opposite front shoulder off when the bullet hit the joint. Gave me a whole new appreciation for that round, even at 150 years old now it still has its place.