My chickens are safe...for awhile.

[Mule Packer]

This character was prowling around one of the back fields the other morning along with two more of his buddies. Unfortunately, I only had a Ruger 10/22 with me.

His two pals were a good two hundred yards out, but this guy got within a hundred yards of where I was. I knew the little 10/22 was sighted in for a hundred yards, so I put the cross hairs on his "boiler room" and touched off. Amazingly, the little .22 was able to bring him down.

Utah has a fifty dollar bounty on coyotes because they've been making a significant dent in the mule deer herds, not to mention what they've been doing to the calf and lamb crops. So, I did the necessary paperwork and received a check for fifty bucks.

It certainly won't supplement my retirement income by any noticeable means,...probably won't even be enough to be considered a "cottage industry," but it might help keep me in ammo.

 

[da gimp]

the state of Missouri would be bankrupt if they paid a $50.00 bounty on coyotes... congrats hand on the good shot.

 

[eyegots2no]

Which 22 ammo did you use?

 

[Mule Packer]

I was using CCI Mini-Mag hollow points. Seemed to do the job okay.

 

[BigBill]

Our coyote don't look like that they look like wolves there the size of a female German shepherd.

 

[chaparrito]

We have another bobcat working the area lately. My hardest working and favorite barn cat is missing. I'll get him eventually. Took the last one with a .22 as that's what I had when I spotted him. Weighed 36lbs on the barn scale, grown fat on domestics I reckon. He's buried deep in the compost pile, I want a complete skeleton.

 

[chaparrito]

Our coyote don't look like that they look like wolves there the size of a female German shepherd.

They may be coy-dogs or, depending on where you are, Red Wolf x Coyote hybrids. Ours are fairly small but they make up for their size in number.

 

[Salty RI]

Our coyote don't look like that they look like wolves there the size of a female German shepherd.

Same here.

 

[Drm50]

Here in SE Ohio, the coyotes have ravaged all small game. This
was groundhog heaven ,Was nothing to shoot 500 during the summer. Now, no rabbits, Grouse, even chipmunks are scarce.
They put hurt on Turkeys and deer. Are also hard on lambs. There has only been 1 confirmed calf kill so far. We need a
bounty put in place. You can't leave pets out at night or coyotes
will get them. Fox, Skunk, possum all are disappearing.

 

[Biginge]

MP,

I think that was Frannys' dog. I cant remember what I had for lunch but that Stetson story from years back was a classic.

 

[BigBill]

I seen one cross the road in front of my jeep in daylite I swerved over and whistled. It stopped 15 yards away and stared at me. What a beautiful face it had like a wolf.

I seen the exact same looking wolf in vt at my camp decades ago. It was wider than a honda quad. It hung off both sides. I said that's a wolf.

We were camping there one night and my son and his girlfriend stayed out side playing kissy, kissy, huggy, huggy, near the fire. As the fire went low one wolf circled the camp, then two, then three, then four. They circled my camp the kids came inside. There big and bold wolves.

Upper my state wildlife had a story on the net where the wolves were crossing the frozen rivers from Canada into ny state and inter breeding with yotes making a larger wolf type animal.

Last winter my son seen three wolves the size of German shepherd s crossing the frozen reservoir.

No one is hunting any predators here.

I need to look into hunting them. Let the bodies hit the ground.

I lost cats to yotes/wolfs it's payback time. They can't get my feral cats they have radar

At my camp in vt no chipmunk means a Fisher is hunting there

 

[Iggy]

Use to lean out the side of a Piper Cub and shoot runnin' coyotes with a 12 gauge. Then the Govt. pilot would land and cut off the ears.. $25.00 a pair.
Those landings and take offs more than once caused a pucker ring in the back seat of the puddle jumper.

 

[fat tom]

It certainly won't supplement my retirement income by any noticeable means,..

You just need to get SERIOUS about it like this guy!



f.t.

 

[Jinglebob]

This past spring I started seeing a lone coyote come down to the pond in the morning. I noticed that he was lame in one hind leg. Whenever he saw me he would quickly limp off into woods. I nicknamed him Limpy.

By early summer I suppose he saw me as a non-threat because he would drink at the pond and then just stand and watch me. Limpy never bothered any of my birds or livestock. He quit coming around in early September.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

We hear coyotes calling to each other at night. If they linger near the houses close to dawn, they are taking a big chance. They have claimed more than one well loved pet.

 

[rwsmith]

I may be a bit of a tree hugger...

I may be a bit of a tree hugger, but coyotes, boars and other really destructive pests are fair game.

 

[don5]

Use to lean out the side of a Piper Cub and shoot runnin' coyotes with a 12 gauge. Then the Govt. pilot would land and cut off the ears.. $25.00 a pair.
Those landings and take offs more than once caused a pucker ring in the back seat of the puddle jumper.

God I bet that was a blast! Another good story by Iggy!

 

[Iggy]

Wyoming had a predatory animal program funded by the state and feds.

At a meeting one time a female federal officer from D.C. was proposing a contraceptive program to help control coyotes.

A grizzled old sheep rancher in the back of the room stood up and said "Lady, them coyotes ain't f****** our sheep, they're eatin' them.

The meeting kinda fell apart after that. Din't hear much more about castratin' coyotes neither.

 

[elm_creek_smith]

Got a call from my wife several weeks back about coyotes coming across the creek into our backyard. Went home to find her S&W Model 681 on the breakfast bar needing a cleaning. There was a fair-sized coyote on the creek bank needed cleaning too. Need to buy some more Speer 135 grain .38 Special +P Short Barrel Gold Dots. Two hits on a running 'yote at 25-30 yards. She'll do.

 

[kozmic]

Nice shootin' at 100 yards with one of those "inaccurate 10/22's" I keep hearing about!!!!