Got up yesterday morning and was getting dressed when out of the back patio door I saw a coyote running across the yard with a big hen in its mouth. Ran and grabbed shotgun and when I looked again the darned critter had left the hen by the fence and was trotting back for another.
Eased the door open and he took off lickety split. Took 3 rounds of 1/4 oz #6 that slowed him down but still climbed wire farm fence, back through back pasture and climbed a second one!
Shots turned out fatal though, he was laying stone dead about 10 yards on the other side. Have reloaded with 00 Buck but will need to be really careful about what's behind what I'm shooting at so as not to tear up anything unintended.
Will try to add picture if I can figure it out ffwave
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That was not his first good meal.
No it wasn't, that's a nice looking 'yote.
That is my most favorite kind of Coyote. :thumbsup:
Those dogs are tough. Had one a few years back doing something similar and I grabbed a 5.56, laid down prone and he was about 250 yards away by then on a trot, aim, hold, squeeze and he flips right into the air so I stood up. He hits the ground and takes off running on three legs to the west while my FIL is roasting me for missing, so I take an off hand shot and he spins in place and then heads east like a carnival game. Now he is pushing 300 yards, running, and off hand with a 5.56 that's a hail Mary even for me, but I let another fly as he vanishes into the woods. FIL won't stop with the roasting, but we found that dog dead about 150 yards to the east after he came out of the woods and tried to cross another field. It was a week or so later so I didn't bother to count the holes in the hide to respond to the FIL, but for sure one found it's mark.
We've had coyotes around for quite a while, but then a few years with no sightings and no problems. Guess they're back! Hardly ever see rabbits anymore and there's very good habitat for them. There's only one redeeming factor that a coyote has and that's that they will eat skunks ffwave
I get rabbits, skunks, and coyotes on my trail cameras. Guess that indicates there is a balance ?? Many, many deer and turkeys. An occasional bobcat.
Have a man in town who has down 24 so far. From the first of January. Night Shooting over a gut pile.
Just talked to a trapper in town he got 44 this year. The season is over now. For trapping and night shooting. Daytime shooting all year in NH.
Well, I don't believe there's a coyote season here but if they're harassing my wife's chickens they die :thumbsup:
ours is shoot on sight, but the night vision stuff has a season Jan. to March or something like that.
Look what the liberals did to Michigan this spring!
I figured it had to be some kind of perception influence, because they sure aren't endangered. No data, just feelings. smiley_thumbsdown
Great video Jeff, these MUCC folks are spot on and should have a very solid legal case with the DNR for not basing their rulings on sound science and study. This is how it starts. Remember the Spotted Owl in the PNW that was "only able to survive" in old growth timber? Facts later proved that was not the case because they had not looked for them in other than old growth.
It's pretty evident that in today's "woke" environment it's whoever screams the loudest gets the attention.
Hopefully this gets overturned.
And spotted owl also breed with the barred owl. And I see those in 30-40 year old softwood forest.
Need to vote the fools out. Starting to see some of that junk in NH too. They moved in from the South because it is nice here. Then they want to change everything. smiley_thumbsdown
Quote from: Peter Drouin on May 05, 2024, 03:26:07 PMNeed to vote the fools out. Starting to see some of that junk in NH too. They moved in from the South because it is nice here. Then they want to change everything. smiley_thumbsdown
By "South" I presume you just mean a state or two south of you. I don't know of many from "the South" that are moving North, it's much more the opposite! :wink_2:
Some try it for a year from Texas or Florida, way up north here, but the notion of staying fizzles by spring time. Unless your into real ruralness and like winter, you'll meet the doldrums mighty quick. ffcheesy
A number of years ago I caught a dumb yote in the neighboors field.....100 yards out.
.220 swift with a 40 grain ballistic tip, end result (for him) was not pretty.
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By "South" I presume you just mean a state or two south of you. I don't know of many from "the South" that are moving North, it's much more the opposite! :wink_2:
Yes.