Nope. I got tired of losing chickens, the neighbors lost cat after cat so I went to the pig slaughterhouse and bought a head. I threaded a steel cable through the natural openings and cinched it tight with a couple of cable clamps.
I found the perfect tree close to their preferred spot of entry and hung that head high enough they had to jump for it slightly, that way they would make noise alerting me to their presence, if I wasn’t watching.
After about 3 days that head was aging to coyote perfection when the first 5 showed up. I was waiting with my muffled .300 Blackout. Knocked 3 down before the others realized what was happening and ran off.
I ended up taking out 11 in less than 4 days. We didn’t have a coyote problem again. We did see one or two a year several years later but the dogs chased them away. They had gotten completely out of balance due to lack of predation and easy pickin’s like you mentioned.
That’s a very clever plan!!
Nice work!
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