”Nobody needs an AR-15!”
“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???
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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....
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.)
A bucket of guts or road kill hung from a tree makes good coyote bait. So does a chicken with hooks in it but I won’t, just too gruesome. Either kill them clean or leave them alone.
The half mile of open pasture behind the house and in front of the woods behind us is my kill zone. For coyotes and our pets it reminds me of the gauntlet in the movie Bridge over the River Kwai that had to be crossed to enter the jungle.
A suppressor is useless unless you’re using subsonic ammo. The guy in the article used supersonic, and the “crack” when it breaks the sound barrier is almost as loud as unsuppressed.
Good story.
Been there and done that, only with a 10.5” barrel, in 5.56.
I know chicken ranchers who use #2 treble hooks to deal with coyotes. Tie them to a nice, sturdy tree branch with heavy deep sea fishing line, leaving the hook hanging about five feet off the ground. Wrap a big ol’ piece of raw chicken meat around the hook, making sure it finds purchase on all three points. Then check back every day or two to see what you’ve caught.
It doesn’t require any fancy shooting hardware, nor even human intervention. Just put out the bait and let nature take its course.
This was understood for so long that it's almost crazy to hear people say that bears, wolves, coyotes and such have a right to be around humans. Nah. They are direct competitors for food and dangers to humans. That's why we wiped them out wherever we civilized.
Good one!