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Hmmmm....remember when "varmint rifles" were sort of everyday tools in the family room? Like, say, a 30-30 carbine?

Oh well, these people would rather protect the varmints (read:coyotes) than their pets.

Attention liberal gun-grabbers: you can't have it both ways. You decide: the coyote (natural predator), or your little foo-foo dog (the prey).

Hmmmm....remember when "varmint rifles" were sort of everyday tools in the family room? Like, say, a 30-30 carbine?
Talk about overkill, unless you've got really big varmints! (wouldn't that make them predators instead of varmints?)
Don't know how big ya'lls varmints are, but a .22, with bird shot if you just want to scare 'em off, works pretty good too on most "regular sized" varmints.

30-30?! Jeez Victor, you don't want to be shootin that cannon off in the living room! The noise, the smell!

If you wish to pot varmints from within the old dwelling as my beloved Grandma Annie (as in that Oakley) was embarassingly fond of doing (really a shockingly bad idea, not to mention probably illegal, we just couldn't break her of the habit), to woodchucks in the garden, or rabbits on the lawn, foxes, pheasants, squirrels, or anything else that came within range, edible or not; allow me to recommend the humble .22. Something with a long, long barrel, too. Hers was a long, octagonal barreled 1890s Hardware Store Special Single-Shot break-open old-timer with an external hammer. Heavy as hell. Couldn't be heard 100 yards away.

And don't be using those hot, noisy, super-duper nasty hollowpoint loads. (Well at least in that rifle!) Longs, NOT Long Rifle. Shot cartridges, too. A 4-power scope would have been nice. No long shots, either. Close to the house so you would be shooting DOWN. Oh yeah, you'll need a kid to pick up the occasional (OK, so she wasn't that great a shot) carcasses and to clean the rifle.

Important Family Shooting Sports Note:When the shooter gets to be about 85, or visually impaired, go to blanks. More on yard-kill recipes (none for coyote) to follow.

"Hmmmm....remember when "varmint rifles" were sort of everyday tools in the family room? Like, say, a 30-30 carbine?"

Nostaligia for ignorance is not a good thing. The "kill all the varmints" mentality has led to extinction, threatned populations, and outright cruelty as stupid and ignorant people blast any animal they don't like.

Gee, call me crazy, but I believe we're supposed to share this world with the rest of creation. I feel badly for Kathie Lee and others who lose their pets to predators. The moral is not to bring back the murderous days of killing animals on sight, but to keep your pets indoors or outdoors under supervision.