One should always have a gun on hand.

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My parents have recently retired to their "cabin" in the woods up north and my family went to visit them this weekend. Sunday am we are all sitting down for breakfast watching a few rabbits play in the backyard food plot when out comes a coyote. I was able to jump up run to the mantle and grab my carry gun and sneak out a patio door. I quickly made it around the corner and shot that bugger dead. My dad has seen it a few times in the back and is glad to have it gone. I was happy to connect at forty yards with a compact gun. Sorry no pictures but it made it to the swamp before actually dying and it smelt so bad I figured we could just leave it there. I have always felt pretty good about my chances with my little m&p 9c if it was ever called into action and I feel even better now.

That's my story, now let's hear yours surely there must be quite a few good carry gun shots that can be shared without any worries about the law.
 
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Had to kill a fawn that ran in front of my rzr on the trail 30 miles from nowhere about two weeks ago. I really hated to do that but was thankful that I had a gun and didn't have to finish it off with a rock. I still feel bad about it. Hunting for food is one thing, this was another.
 
Have turned around and went back a couple of times to put a deer out of it's misery. Both times they worked themselves loose and limped away. One was hurt worse than the other but they both probably survived. Getting hung in a woven wire fence is hard on them buggers though.
I once shot at a copperhead with a .22 pistol that I carried occasionally and wound up shooting a hole in one of the center caps laying nearby. I grabbed a stick and did for him.
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gordon
 
"So you shot an innocent coyote?" Ask any Native American, Coyote is never innocent!

I have a 30 year battle running with raccoons. At dusk they come out of hiding. A 870 with a surefire on a rail and by the door has helped thin their ranks. One night a couple of coons came early. The first one as he was lifting the roof tiles on the house, the second ran to a fork in the tree and stopped to look at me through the fork with only the face showing. He was about 30 feet above me. I dispatched both of them with a Model 49 that is always in my pocket. The Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel 38+P has the accuracy to do tricky shots in fading light. Ivan
 
The doe ran out in front of me and I just missed it then the fawn followed her down a embankment behind her. My wife seen more of it than I did. Just a few secounds before hand my rzr started feeling squrrely as I was getting a flat on the rear and then the doe jumped. Theresa thought the fawn actualy broke both legs prior to me hitting it trying to stop! The poor fawn was bleating, Theresa was screaming. I finished off the fawn and seen my tire was completely flat. I also had other mechanical trouble going on just prior too that I was trying to sort out. A fellow came by and drove us to my truck and trailer 35 miles away. It was like 02:30 am when we got home. The first part of the ride was great though. By the way, when I was driving the truck and trailer to retrieve the RZR at about 12:30 am I was far down the road, not much more than good trail another truck followed me closely. I was just a mile now from the parked rzr and a good 30 miles from the paved road. I pulled over to talk with the guy and under those circumstances my revolver was comforting. Turned out he was a nice guy from vegas lost trying to find a cabin he was invited to and was running out of gas. He helped me load the rzr and I had him follow me to cedar city for gas.
A gun can be comforting even if you dont have to use it.
 
A 40 yard shot with your carry gun? Not bad at all! I'm betting that not many of us could do that! With a handgun of our choosing sure, but not our EDC's!

I don't shoot small animals indiscriminately anymore (meaning varmint hunting), but coyotes are still fair game.
 
I had to kill a neighbor's dog that had another neighbor down by the throat.

The guy told his dog to "kill" in a voice I heard through a closed balcony door. When I got to the porch the woman was down with the dog on her throat. I shot the dog with two rounds from a bolt action .308. First one did not drop him, but the shot angle sucked. The second shot killed the dog, but got her arm.

I had the phone already on 911, so the whole exchange was on tape. The dog owner attacked the girl, and I had to explain in a loud voice to him that there were 10 rounds in the mag, and he was less useful than the dog. He backed off.

He was arrested and convicted of assault with intent to kill, was evicted, and all his junk was thrown on the curb for the vultures to grab as he was dragged off to 25 years in prison.

She absolved me of the damage to her arm from the second shot.
 
I've killed a few rattlesnakes with handguns while walking and working on our property. All of them were shot within six feet. We lost a very nice Thoroughbred that was bitten on the nose. Vet said the venom likely attacked the horse's heart muscle. I hate the damn things. No such thing as an innocent rattlesnake. They're a threat.

I'm not a big coyote fan either, but it's pretty obvious the coyote in the OP's story was only on scene because he was hunting. The OP's parents had a food plot that attracted the rabbits. The rabbits attracted the coyote. We have similar predator issues in my area because people feel the need to feed wildlife. Eventually, some homeowner loses a pet, or someone complains of the threat, and state game officers end up tracking down the predator and killing it. Simple solution: Don't feed wildlife.
 
hoc9sw said:
I had to kill a neighbor's dog that had another neighbor down by the throat.

The guy told his dog to "kill" in a voice I heard through a closed balcony door. When I got to the porch the woman was down with the dog on her throat. I shot the dog with two rounds from a bolt action .308. First one did not drop him, but the shot angle sucked. The second shot killed the dog, but got her arm.

I had the phone already on 911, so the whole exchange was on tape. The dog owner attacked the girl, and I had to explain in a loud voice to him that there were 10 rounds in the mag, and he was less useful than the dog. He backed off.

He was arrested and convicted of assault with intent to kill, was evicted, and all his junk was thrown on the curb for the vultures to grab as he was dragged off to 25 years in prison.

She absolved me of the damage to her arm from the second shot.
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WOW! That's quite a story. Please tell me that the guy was old enough that a 25 year sentence would be "life"? I hate the thought of someone like him being back ont the street - ever.
 
Just yesterday a friend told me that their daughter - a U.S. Army Captain, had some guy break into her house in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago. She was awakened by the sound of him taking the screen out of her bedroom window and she screemed/shouted and made enough racket (telling him to leave) that the guy took off. She said if he had come in through any other window she would not have heard him.
The shocking part was when I asked -"didn't she have a gun in the house?". The answer was....no. :eek: I couldn't believe what I was hearing!

She was really shaken up and she called one of her sergents, who came over. He gave her a 9mm pistol to keep until she gets one for herself. Unbelievable.

So the moral is......always have a gun handy! I carry even when I'm in my house. :cool:
 
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Shot a distempered raccoon in the dark at 25 yards with just the little bit of side light from my headlights. Model 10 snubbie. It was a sitting shot. ;)
 
I live in an urban area of a smallish city, about 150,000 population. Coyotes are not uncommon to see, but not an everyday occurrence. I have not heard of a single problem with pets, small children, etc caused by the coyotes, and about the worst thing said about them is that they keep trying to catch (usually without success) the wild turkeys that also live near my home. We don't have much of a rodent problem around here, and I assume that is due, in part, to the coyotes. Even if it were legal to do so within the city limits I would not shoot a coyote unless I felt actually threatened by one.
 
We lose a few cats and small dogs every time the coyote pack comes back. The town traps them, hauls them off, more move in.

I get the unofficial message from the trapper and police that if one or more were found dead, no questions would be asked.
 
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