I've heard that before too, but I also heard that actually three things will survive:
Coyotes
Cockroaches, and
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Yote Crossed the Line!
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I've heard that before too, but I also heard that actually three things will survive:
Nice coyote. We get them in our yard all the time. Game and Fish says that they were here first so just leave them alone.
Nice family of five were here yesterday. One would jump on one of our bushes to scare the rabbits out for the rest to eat. Smart little creatures.
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Nice family of five were here yesterday. One would jump on one of our bushes to scare the rabbits out for the rest to eat. Smart little creatures.
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ky wonder
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ever shoot a CCI 22 quiet?
they are several decimals quieter that a box of Remington sub-Sonics
I love these things, long rifles that are as quiet as a pellet rifle when shot from a long gun, they will not cycle my m&p15-22 ,but it is just as fast as a bolt repeater by recharging the bolt after each shot,but accurate out to 50 yards and deadly on big raccoons and squirrels and such raiding on corn piles on slow days in our deer shooting huts , and yes they will take a coyote when luckily placed in the correct location
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A recent study in Alabama found about 65% of deer fawns are taken by coyotes. In the 80s 90s we had so many deer you could take two doe a day all season long (oct15-Jan31). Now it is one per day and they are considering reducing that. We didn't have many coyotes until the last 10-15 years. Choot'em!!!!!!
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It's a small deer head, and we don't leave carcasses out on the farm. So it came from somewhere besides one that we had shot.
Last year my kid took out one rather dumb yote. We live rural on a mountain on the fringes of the Adirondacks. He does have one neighbor about a 100 yards away and the lay out does for safety considerations prevent shooting in some directions.
They let the dog out to do its business and my son looked out the window and this yote was sneaking between the garage and house towards the dog. Dog is older and hard of hearing.
My kid got his Benelli 12 gauge loaded with buck and managed to go out a side door without the yote catching on as it was so intent on getting the dog. One shot and he just about took the head clean off, it was just hanging by a thread. Kid said it looked kind of scruffy so he took a rope and dragged it about a 100 yards into the woods. Checked back a couple days later and just some small remains were there.
They let the dog out to do its business and my son looked out the window and this yote was sneaking between the garage and house towards the dog. Dog is older and hard of hearing.
My kid got his Benelli 12 gauge loaded with buck and managed to go out a side door without the yote catching on as it was so intent on getting the dog. One shot and he just about took the head clean off, it was just hanging by a thread. Kid said it looked kind of scruffy so he took a rope and dragged it about a 100 yards into the woods. Checked back a couple days later and just some small remains were there.
Doug M.
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A new species is evolving right before our eyes — an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes and dogs
A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.
Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.
The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.
That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.
Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.
The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.
Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.
That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.
At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a standard coyote, and its large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow it to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.
An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates its genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a quarter from wolves.
The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.
Its dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.
Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life — which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own — because its dog ancestry allows it to tolerate people and noise.
The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.
The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify its diet and eat discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats, which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become nocturnal to avoid humans.
The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.
Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing that one species does not interbreed with another — although the hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are distinct species in the first place.
But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had noticed until fairly recently.
“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina State.
A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.
Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.
The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.
That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.
Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.
The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.
Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.
That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.
At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a standard coyote, and its large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow it to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.
An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates its genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a quarter from wolves.
The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.
Its dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.
Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life — which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own — because its dog ancestry allows it to tolerate people and noise.
The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.
The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify its diet and eat discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats, which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become nocturnal to avoid humans.
The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.
Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing that one species does not interbreed with another — although the hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are distinct species in the first place.
But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had noticed until fairly recently.
“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina State.
Rocksprings
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Don't have coyotes yet, got hogs which are just as bad.
Every creature deserves at the least, a quick demise.
I would hope you would think of the needless suffering, and reconsider, sir.
Rocksprings
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ragman
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I have a good number of yotes on my farm but this is the big boy I am after now. This is the largest one I have seen in these parts.
This one was bothering my labs in the backyard. I was enjoying a nice cup of coffee on a sunny winter day, sitting on my deck. He comes along howling like crazy. A 230 grain Black Talon from my Wilson CQB set matters right....53 yards right through the shoulders. He dropped as if struck by the hammer of Thor.
ragman
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427mach1: I agree with you but I was just not able to say what if anything it was. I examined the pic every way I could. I searched the web and looked at photos of a number of yote mixes and came away with more questions than answers. The only thing I can say for sure is that it is a very big yote or something.
Rocksprings
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yots
I see you have cameras looking at cameras. Theft problem ??
I have a good number of yotes on my farm but this is the big boy I am after now. This is the largest one I have seen in these parts.
I see you have cameras looking at cameras. Theft problem ??
ragman
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Rocksprings: Not a theft issue on these cams. The cam you see has a good view of one of my roads and it also covers a crossing point.
This reminds me of a book....
I thought this was amusing.
'Islands In The Stream' by Hemingway.
The main character is on a small island walking down a path when a crab in the path rears up and 'threatens' him with his claws. There is a stand off, then the guy pulls his .357 and blasted the crab to bits. He was thinking something like, "Poor crab. He was only practicing his trade. But he should have shuffled along."
Funny how little things can stand out.
I thought this was amusing.
'Islands In The Stream' by Hemingway.
The main character is on a small island walking down a path when a crab in the path rears up and 'threatens' him with his claws. There is a stand off, then the guy pulls his .357 and blasted the crab to bits. He was thinking something like, "Poor crab. He was only practicing his trade. But he should have shuffled along."
Funny how little things can stand out.
Doug M.
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Scroll back up a few responses to #28, and read the article I linked to and pasted in.
