Coyotes are closing in

[alfsauve]

As many know, I life in a urban subdivision, but I have a lot of land around me.   Two golf course holes behind my house separated by a major drainage creek.  Woods leading to a major river, Chattahoochee, are only a couple of hundred yards away on either side of me and the back half of mine and my neighbors' property is uncleared (1 acre lots).  Coyotes have been hanging around for a while, but not too close.  Last night, while watching the foo-foo dog in the back yard, my next door neighbor's driveway security light came on.  Very sensitive, and I'm expecting to see a cat.  Nope it was a fairly large coyote, just amlbin' up his driveway.  He/she glanced at me and trucked on down to the creek without breaking stride.  

That's the closest we've seen them, though we hear them on the golf course occasionally at night.  So we're patrolling when the dog goes out with the Mossberg now.  Morning walk to get the paper now includes the SW M66 (.357) not the .380.

Got an aggressive opossum tonight with the air gun.   He was on the other side of the fence, but came directly for the dog.  Called the dog back to the house, grabbed the air gun and dropped the opossum with a single head shot while the wife held the flashlight.  Normally I give them a pass, but when the make a b-line for the house or dog, they cross the line.

[TAB]

a cb cap....  trust me.  its less noise then a unspurpressed air rifle.  



buy a few boxs and see which one works best in your gun.  none of them have enough power to cycle a auto, so a bolt gun is recomended. ( some don't even chamber do to thier often odd size with autos)  If your bolt gun can handle them( most can) try the shorts and the longs 1st. ( clean your chamber before you step up in size. trust me)  Often they will be more accurate for some reason.

[CJS3]

Got a lecture from LE about discharging a firearm inside the city limits while shooting CBs with my kids. Then he tried out a few rounds, and asked where he could get some. Thank God for Texas.

They are quieter than an air gun, but I found that a 22 cal. pellet rifle had better stopping power.

[TAB]

Got a lecture from LE about discharging a firearm inside the city limits while shooting CBs with my kids. Then he tried out a few rounds, and asked where he could get some. Thank God for Texas.

They are quieter than an air gun, but I found that a 22 cal. pellet rifle had better stopping power.

thats goint to depend on the pellet gun.

most cb caps will leave at some where in the 600-700 fps range with a 29 grain bullet.  most 22 pellets are about 15 grains.

The average 22 pellet gun puts out pellets in the 600-800 fps range  Some are in the 1000+ fps range, but often those are very expesnive guns.


energy =MV^2/450400

@700 fps there is ~31.5 ftlbs of energy from a cb cap.  a 15 grain pellet must be traveling a 972.5 to get 31.5 ft lbs.


Just tryst my math.... 

[alfsauve]

I have and have used CBs.   They're great.   I just love my pellet gun though.  It's not THAT much louder than a CB.   I think the pellet gun is a little safer to use in my environment.   The loudest sound is when the pellet passes completely through the body of a rodent, then smacks the wooden fence.  And not the least of which, discharging a firearm in my backyard is against county law (except in self-defense_, while pellet rifles are legal. 

Also, there's the sighting issue.  My pellet rifle has a 5-15x 40mm AO, scope.  I know which dots to use for every 5 yds from 5 to 25yds.  My .22 is set for 50yds and I know which dots for 50, 75 and 100yds.   

And my pellet gun is a Weihauch HW-77 under-lever in .22.   Not the most powerful, but a great balance between power and accuracy.  It takes opossum and rabbits with single head shots.

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[rat31465]

CCI CB Longs...just as quiet as the other line of CB's and they shoot better than the short versions...and I have killed a Coyote with them.  Had a young, probably year old male come up onto the porch after the cats food.  When I walked out with the Remington Bolt Action .22 he ran out to about 20 yards and turned to look at me.  That was his biggest and last mistake.  Hit him in the chset with the CB Long...He ran about 30 yards and collapsed.  Coyotes are sneaky and smart as all hell, but they don't require all that much gun to take down.

[r_w]

Coyotes are THICK around here, too.  We have guard dogs that run them off, but they know where the fencelines are so they sit and wait for the chickens to cross the fence. 

Crafty buggers.

 

[bbbean]

We have a bad coyote problem. Several times a year, they'll get brave enough to come right up to the house, and they've even woken me up in the middle of the night yipping in the bushes under my bedroom window.

Fortunately, we're on the farm, so our anti-coyote choices are 12 ga, whichever pistol is closest, or my favorite - the AR with a light mount.

Interestingly, I've found that if I leave the AR by the door with my amplified earmuffs and slip on shoes nearby, I won't hear a peep out of the coyotes. But when I decide they've moved on and move the gun to the back room, put the muffs back in the range bag, and leave my shoes somewhere else - THAT's when they get brave!

[tombogan03884]

We have a bad coyote problem. Several times a year, they'll get brave enough to come right up to the house, and they've even woken me up in the middle of the night yipping in the bushes under my bedroom window.

Fortunately, we're on the farm, so our anti-coyote choices are 12 ga, whichever pistol is closest, or my favorite - the AR with a light mount.

Interestingly, I've found that if I leave the AR by the door with my amplified earmuffs and slip on shoes nearby, I won't hear a peep out of the coyotes. But when I decide they've moved on and move the gun to the back room, put the muffs back in the range bag, and leave my shoes somewhere else - THAT's when they get brave!

It goes back to FQ's thread about "How do dogs know"

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=15393.0

They may not actually BE dogs, but close enough.

[rat31465]

Coyotes are the most crafty animal I have ever hunted....Animal Biologist have observed Females in heat going into neighborhoods and just walking through...then go upwind of the populated areas and wait for a male dog to follow them out only to then be attacked by the rest of the pack.  Thats crafty and in my opinion shows a higher level of thought process...after hunting coyotes on their own ground and terms....Not using dogs.  I have a great appreciation and respect for them...makes hunting just about every other animal (Other than higher order Carnivores) seem almost easy by comparision.

If you ever start seeing those (Have you seen my Lost Dog/Cat) signs popping up on Telephone Poles in any given  neighborhood...you can bet your last dollar that you have a Coyote pack working it.