Coyote in the yard

[red oaks lumber]

norm
i love ya shootin at sound :D earlier this fall my wife and i were out checking cattle and we spotted a coyote maybe 50 yrds. ahead off to the side. we kept walking and got up even with him now a distance of maybe 30 yrds. the darn thing sat down and started barking at us just like a dog. honest truth! he wasnt mangy or anything after a couple of minutes he started walking away stopping and looking back every few feet or so.
i don't worry about a pack of coyotes. its the darn pack of wolves we have close by that keeps me watching my back trail
dont get me wrong the gun is loaded for the just out of reach opportuities ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Jeff......those Coyotes look real healthy. The ones around here seem to be starving.

[Jeff]

Feed them deer fawns. They thrive on those.  :-\ 

[Polly]

 8) so the story goes ky  fish and game turned them loose in ky to help control the deer population ,which they deni, they sound like apack of wolves alot of nites i would be afraid to go out at nite without protection my son has a small dog and almost caught it in daylite

[MJD]

A couple weeks ago I went to the wood pile so I could fill the owf and see a coyote maybee 10 yards away and just glareing at me and then slowly walks away keeping his eyes on me, I load the furnace and walk back to the wood pile and he is on my trail going out to the woods again only 10- 15 yards away just staring at me, thats all I could stand I went back to the house and grabed the rifle and walked back to where I saw him last and see him laying down on the side of the hill in some long grass watching me for his last time. This was a very brave large male coyote that if he would of came across a small child I believe could of been a ugly scene, never seen one so brave.

[Cypressstump]

Good thing you took that one out.

Usually when a wild animal loses it's caution of humans, bad things soon happen. He could have been old and lost some normal hunting abilities, looking for easy prey as you fear, or else sick/diseased.

[mburrow]

here is one I shot some time back, it was about 80 yards out of my back yard.

  

  

 

[LOGDOG]

Our akita and basset hound started barking in the kitchen this morning. The blinds were closed on the patio door and I didn't see anyone out in the side yard. I thought maybe it was a false alarm. The akita's bark was her "alarm/warning bark" though. It's usually spot on. So I part the vertical blinds to look at the patio door toward the bottom/pasture and coming up our levy/road is a fat female coyote. I told my wife to come in the kitchen quick. The thing came right up to the edge of the yard and that's when I made the decision to try to take it. I grabbed the only gun I had handy which was my .300 mag, came back and just then the coyote decided to drop down the far side of the levy and head toward the tree line. I thought "dang!". But then it started to do a fast walk/lope down the tree line and got clear of some trees that were blocking it before. I already had the gun out the door with a leaning aim and rolled her right there. I put one more in just to finish it off quickly. I wish I would have had a smaller caliber rifle handy because that .300 mag absolutely destroyed the exit side of that coyote.... as in 40% of the exit side was missing. I looked at my ammo when I got back in. Here I had 150 grain protected hollow point ammo in there. No wonder.

The coat was nice and thick. Would have liked to have mounted that coyote but not now. It had quite a set of teeth on it that's for sure.

[Shotgun]

How do you sex a coyote coming up the levy/road?  Just wondering.

Norm

[LOGDOG]

A few pictures of the coyote ...







...and by the way Shotgun ... she wasn't sexed until after.  ;) She won't be making any more pups.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

How do you sex a coyote coming up the levy/road?  Just wondering.

Norm

Shhhhhhhhhhh.......you sneak up on it.


Good shot LogDog.

[LOGDOG]

Thanks Poston.  ;)

[JuniperBoss]

A 22 cal. is WAY PLENTY for coyote hunting or defending from a coyote. Never be afraid of one, though. I have said before, there is a greater risk of injury caring a knife or gun around the woods to protect yourself from a coyote than the coyote itself attacking you. But small livestock, pets, and very small children (maybe?) could be a different story. My sister's dog was nearly killed in the middle of the night by a coyote(s). It limped into the house bloody and with a puncture wound on the top of it's head. It made it, but in areas where coyotes are very prevalent I would take extreme caution with fairly small animals, and maybe even small children, if they're walking around the wilderness in the night . Still, unlikely.

[fishpharmer]

There was a story in National Geograghic years ago, late eighties or early nineties, that highlighted the illegal transportation of live coyotes from state to state.  The coyotes were sold  to provide hunting opportunities either in a pen situation or the "wild."   Coyotes may have spread over a larger range more rapidly due to this.  I've never heard anyone say "there aren't enough coyotes around here."   Mburrow, logdog and all...keep up the good shooting! 8)