One should always have a gun on hand.

[klausinak]

To the OP: Sorry, I don't have any carry gun stories . Now if the title of this thread had been:

"Things you see when you don't have a rifle..."

Then I could fill volumes

-Klaus

 

[hotrod150]

I know people that hunt coyotes (by calling) for fun, and others than would like to see less coyotes due to loss of dogs cats chickens etc.. But personally I like coyotes, they're very adaptable and are out there just trying to eke out a living like the rest of us.

 

[Protected One]

I know people that hunt coyotes (by calling) for fun, and others than would like to see less coyotes due to loss of dogs cats chickens etc.. But personally I like coyotes, they're very adaptable and are out there just trying to eke out a living like the rest of us.

So are mugger and thieves.

 

[Fackler Rebel]

Coyotes are a menace to ranchers, people with small pets, and maybe even small children. Fairly significant problem here in North Alabama. See a coyote or a rattle snake gonna try and kill them.

Reb

 

[redlevel]

. . . I don't have strong feelings either way about coyotes.

You just might develop some strong negative feelings if you had ever lost a calf or a few goats or an outside dog or cat to a 'yote.

 

[Shorty 45 MK2]

The only story I have is shooting a rattler near the chickens.

Like klausinak I could tell you a few stories where I wished I had a rifle SO bad!

 

[Cocked & Locked]

Dead Coyotes are Good Coyotes

You just might develop some strong negative feelings if you had ever lost a calf or a few goats or an outside dog or cat to a 'yote.

Exactly. A few years ago I had to put four goats down due to three coyotes being in with them one night.

I heard a goat making a long-low moaning sound. Thinking a goat was tangled in the fence, I rode out back with a flashlight and my 642 in my back pocket.

First time I felt inadequate carrying a five shooter. Three coyotes were in with my nine goats. The yotes were scrambling looking for the best way out as I was trying to shoot them. Never hit a one.

Three goats were mangled and down panting...ears torn off, eyes hanging loose from sockets, rear end and throats chewed. I put those down after dispatching the one in the pic below.

This goat was the biggest and oldest and probably tired out and dropped first. He was the one moaning. They were eating on his rear end and intestines (spared that from the pic) and he was still alive.

A friend of mine was turkey hunting last year and heard a "squealing noise" as he described it. He slowly walked around a outside field corner and saw a coyote that had just killed a whitetail fawn. He shot the coyote and took this picture.

My nephew shot this one while deer hunting.

This one from West Virginia now lives on my living room wall. He's 52" from tip of nose to end of tail.

 

[feralmerril]

Hey, I`m eating here!

 

[TNDave]

Nice shooting!

 

[Shorty 45 MK2]

Hey, I`m eating here!

I learned long ago not to eat while on forums or online in general.

 

[Mcwsky09]

At the risk of starting a fight, I'm a Native American, as is anyone born in this country . . . I don't have strong feelings either way about coyotes.

Hey me too. Do we need a new term along the lines of descendent of North Americans who predate the arrival of Europeans?

 

[Watchdog]

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 reckon it all depends on what your EDC is.

 

[kevin in nh]

This Deer eating machine got some 12ga medicine

 

[BrianE]

This Deer eating machine got some 12ga medicine

That coyote had a good dentist!

 

[jlrhiner]

Coyotes owe me for @300 chickens, ducks and geese, 2 goats, 4 calves and quite a few piglets in the last 10 years. If I see one, I will wear myself out trying to kill it.

This is a little SW of Viburnum, Missouri.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Down here we kill every d#@& one we see. They have put a severe dent in our deer population(fawn killers). I wish they would all get destemper and die.

 

[RV4driver]

Apparently, it's easier to wax poetic about 'yotes when you are from Eastern Washington or Rockford, Ill.
It's not like that out here in the rural west.
I did love to fly into Rockford airport and take part in their breakfast at the terminal in the late '80s, I can't remember the name of the terminal restaurant, but it had misc. doors and windows and various architectural bits from the old buildings in Chicago hanging around. Very historic and dang good breakfast. If you flew in in a small plane, that was your reservation for breakfast.
Noticeable lack of coyotes, though.

 

[chaparrito]

I once killed 30 raccoons in 30 nights, all with my Marlin .22 lever. Population bloom. Never a shot over 25 feet or so. We'd have a half dozen of them at a time on the patio. Go out to shoo them off and they bare their teeth a growl. They had begun trying to tear the roof off my poultry house. Raccoons are one of the biggest vectors of Rabies in N. America.
Bobcat at about 20 yards with my SigSP2022 9mm at night. Got into my goat pasture.
Countless coyotes with everything from a .22 to a 1911, mostly with a Ruger PC9. I've lost two cats in the last month to them, don't know how many over the years. I've been hunting coyotes on this property all my life and killed dozens. Hasn't begin to put a dent in their numbers.
Buzzworms are sacred to my wife's people, so I rarely kill rattlers unless they are too close to the house or the poultry yard. Ever seen a flock of free range Guinea Hens go after a rattlesnake? No contest.
I don't carry when I go to town, but I am never far from a firearm on the home place.

 

[rwsmith]

I don't want to kill anything......

I don't want to kill anything that ain't bothering me, but I might make an exception for wild hogs/pigs. Coyotes may be around here some (they are everywhere else) but you never see them and I've never heard of one being a pest. Some things that could be a problem around here:

Bobcats, bears have been seen here rarely, Bad dogs, alligators and snakes are about all you'd need a gun for. Animals that could be rabid, like raccoons are likely. Red wolves are nearly extinct. Be careful if you are walking under tree branches in the early evening and get jumped by the Carolina Fanged Deer that hide in the trees. There is no antidote for the venom.
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[Wingmaster]

I finished a deer that had been hit along the road with my carry gun one time.

Now, My trruck gun, Thats another story. I keep a Winchester model 9422M in a rifle rack behind the seat of Ol' Rusty. I lost count of the coyotes, porkeypines, and racoons I have shot with that rifle. A .22 Magnum seems to be about right for a truck gun.

Wingmaster