Posted on 12/27/2017 5:04:54 AM PST by x1stcav
Dennis Murphy sniffed the bobcat urine he uses to lure his prey. He checked the silencer on his AR-15 assault rifle and loaded a few snares into his Ford pickup.
“Let’s go kill some coyotes,” he said.
But he wasn’t heading for the wilderness. Mr. Murphy’s stalking ground is on the contentious new frontier where hunters are clashing with conservationists: cities and suburbs.
Coyotes are largely associated with their ancestral bastions in the wild lands of the American West, but they are highly adaptable, and in recent years they have been colonizing large population centers throughout North America. The hunters have come after them, stalking the predators in settings like strip mall parking lots, housing tract cul-de-sacs, and plazas in the shadow of skyscrapers.
The growing popularity of urban hunting is igniting a fierce debate over the perils and benefits coyotes pose in populated areas, and whether city dwellers ought to adapt to living alongside a cunning predator that has thrived since one of its top adversaries, the gray wolf, has been all but wiped out in much of the continent.
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That, and strip mall parking lots being his destination to shoot coyotes with his silenced AR15. Fear mongering at its best!
Read story just a couple of weeks ago about a little 3 yr old girl attacked on her front porch by a coyote, Other family members were there with her, in town !!
A coyote was seen trotting down a street right in the middle of Ft Worth, Tx carrying a dead pet. It even politely moved over to the side walk to let cars pass. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the city !! Coyotes are a serious problem that know one seems to do anything about.
Silenced doesn’t help unless a subsonic round is used. A 300 blackout loaded very light with a silencer is still a very loud round. A .22 LR on the other hand will not be heard by the neighbors and if well scoped will do the job just as well. Even better if a bone of body mass is missed since a .223 will breeze right through a coyote without picking up a dent.
Yes. You can suppress a firearm, you can even make it very quite, but you cannot silence it. A “silencer” is a movie fiction item.
You can poison the rats & ice with a product called “JUST ONE BITE’. A one pound brick which is the color of peanut brittle. Break it up inside a heavy Ziplock with a hammer & scatter in the corners of your garage, and under your house. I buy mine at the local farm/ranch supply store. about $8 for one brick. Have given some to my neighbor who is constantly fighting ground gophers. It works.
I had at least 30 rabbits near & under my hay stack in early November. The coyotes came in & I am down to only 6 that I can see every day. 4 jack rabbits & 2 cottontails.
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With a supersonic round, the shock wave is far louder than the detonation of the round.
A .22 bolt action rifle with a suppressor is pretty quiet. Less db than a cough, more than a fart.
“I prefer my 150 lb Anatolian. They would never come near my house.”
When I lived in WA coyotes at night would lure dogs away from their house then the pack would attack, kill and eat the dogs.
They won’t go head-to-head with dogs unless the dog is much smaller than them.
Well Anatolians are way too smart for that. They protect their home and charges and won’t get lured anywhere.
They do that to people. My heart dog is eleven and I dread what is coming. They are totally awesome, calm, and fiercely protective. They figure things out. The military wanted to use them, but they are independent problem solvers.
One of my favorite stories about them is when they first came to the US the military wanted to try them out. The Anatolian calmly watched as dog after dog was tested, when it was his turn and the guy with the padding came out instead of grabbing for the arm the way most dogs did it reached up under the padding towards a very unfortunate spot. It was then and there the military decided it would never work. The dog had watched and seen time after time what didn’t work and figured out what would
IMO the writer just made the entire story up. Pathetic but expected nowadays.
As you alluded an AR-15 cannot be practically silenced. The round will still crack supersonic. If a subsonic (silenced) round is used it is single-shot only as chamber pressure is insufficient to work the bolt carrier. The rifle would also foul with only a few rounds. I don’t see anyone subjecting their AR-15 to such abuse.
But hey, there’s a silenced M4 in Counter-Strike so anything’s possible.
Carol Stream near Army Trail and County Farm.
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Coyotes won’t even touch LA’s long standing Skid-Row.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMX31y329E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mefbHlmFk6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14_gOERA7mQ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5214593/Christmas-Day-2017-Downtown-Los-Angeles.html
FYSA: From what I’ve learned coyotes will use a bitch in heat to lure male dogs and an aggressive runt to lure bitches. The dog thinks he’s going after one ‘easy’ coyote and runs into the pack.
Modern cats are just like human millennials.
Wow. I used to work on ranches in Big Bend back in the seventies. They were a problem killing livestock. We’d trap them and hang their hides on the fence as a warn coyote to stay out. Allowing huge populations of coyote in and around cities is ridiculous.
You should provide to refreshments for the “German shepards’
Anti freeze is their favorite
Our neighborhood is lousy with coyotes. No stray cats though. :-)
I used to live in NE Baltimore City and I swear that late one night as I looked out the front window before going to bed, making sure my porch light was on, I saw a coyote walking down the middle of the street.
We had a lot of foxes and I was used to seeing them, had a family of them living in the woods behind my house and this was no fox, nor did it look like a dog.
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