I'm at my desk when something catches my eye out the window. (old picture)
Out in the field is a coyote with one of my chickens dead, in its mouth. I ran down the stairs and grabbed a walking stick as I ran out the door. To my surprise I got about thirty feet from him before he turned on the speed. If I had had a gun he'd be dead. 2PM, must have been pretty hungry.
I saw where he went into the woods, went back and got my .20 caliber pellet gun (only gun I have) and went down a parallel trail in the woods to the area he went into. Didn't find him and I have one other chicken unaccounted for so I'm watching the field in case he comes back.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Good luck. I would almost use another chicken as bait. It would be worth it in the long run. A dead yote in alway the best kind of yote. Between buddys and I we shoot about 10-15 coyotes a year. I will totally stop a deer or turkey hunt to call in these animals.
Sequimite wrote:I'm at my desk when something catches my eye out the window. (old picture)
Out in the field is a coyote with one of my chickens dead, in its mouth. I ran down the stairs and grabbed a walking stick as I ran out the door. To my surprise I got about thirty feet from him before he turned on the speed. If I had had a gun he'd be dead. 2PM, must have been pretty hungry.
I saw where he went into the woods, went back and got my .20 caliber pellet gun (only gun I have) and went down a parallel trail in the woods to the area he went into. Didn't find him and I have one other chicken unaccounted for so I'm watching the field in case he comes back.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
The pellet gun will not do the trick...you need more power knifebro....If you could get 30 feet from that yote, you might as well get a cross-bow to take them out...that is if you don't like firearms....Doc :D
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Dr. Snubnose wrote:The pellet gun will not do the trick...you need more power knifebro....If you could get 30 feet from that yote, you might as well get a cross-bow to take them out...that is if you don't like firearms....Doc :D
I was ready to club him to death after firing the pellet; perhaps not a smart plan.
I grew up hunting and target shooting but went "gunless" after getting married in 1976 to a woman who can't stand guns. She was the victim of an attempted murder at 15, so while reason might suggest having a gun, emotion runs the opposite way.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
When you have coyotes, you are always going to have coyotes. When they are hunted or killed off with poised, they tend to have more pups. Like the fluffy tailed rats they call squirrels, nature seems to have an endless supply. :eek:
You are just going to wound it most air rifles. A large bore high power air rifle could be used to kill a coyote, a Sam Yang Big Bore from Pyramyd Air would work.
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I should point out that my pellet gun is a Benjamin Sheridan Blue Streak that has had it's components "pumped up" with the full steroid treatment at MAC1, so I have a much higher muzzle velocity than a standard pellet gun.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
Sequimite wrote:I should point out that my pellet gun is a Benjamin Sheridan Blue Streak that has had it's components "pumped up" with the full steroid treatment at MAC1, so I have a much higher muzzle velocity than a standard pellet gun.
Interesting, what kind of velocity does it give you?
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My sister-in-law lost her Chihuahua last year to a Coyote. She let it out in the front yard to do its business, and the Coyote streaked around from the side of the house, snapped it up, and made off with it before you could blink an eye. Never found hide or hair of either one again...
I've been doing some small bore shopping myself, since one of my dogs stepped in a gopher hole. These new .22 & .25 air rifles are dropping feral pigs, so it would take a coyote. But, if you look at the rimfire rifles, they're actually a couple $$ hundred cheaper! A .17HMR will give you a 100 yards easy.....no need to run! In 22LR, you can get under $150....plus most of them could pass for a pellet rifle. That Henry lever action isn't much bigger than my sons Red Ryder
Pinetreebbs wrote:Interesting, what kind of velocity does it give you?
MAC1 says 900 feet per second.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
In my teen years, I had a neighbor who owned a Sheridan. Watched him shoot a full can of beer with it. Pellet punched a hole in the front of the can and put a decent bulge in the far side. You young guys may be saying "big deal", but back then beer still came in steel cans that were much thicker than the aluminum ones of today. I can tell you was seriously impressed.
The Deacon wrote:In my teen years, I had a neighbor who owned a Sheridan. Watched him shoot a full can of beer with it. Pellet punched a hole in the front of the can and put a decent bulge in the far side. You young guys may be saying "big deal", but back then beer still came in steel cans that were much thicker than the aluminum ones of today. I can tell you was seriously impressed.
Yes, and you needed a tool to get to the beer.
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If you don't think a Pellet gun can handle a coyote, think again. Yes, it does depend on what gun you are shooting. But Airguns have come a long way over the years.
If you get on the Gamo website, you can see a guy shoot a 600 pound boar with a .177 rifle with one shot. Not the smartest thing to do, but just to see the point.
I used to have a .20 Sheridan before it died. It would blow a pellet clean through a rabbit at 20 yards. It might hurt a yote a bit, but a .22 LR or .22 Mag would be better.
When I was a kid my grandfather had land with LOTS of cows on it. I would go with him to feed them sometimes and he always had a rifle and shot a couple of coyotes that I remember. One was so far away I thought he was just trying to scare it. The coyote just dropped. I didn't know why he shot them. I just automatically accepted he had a reason. I was about 6 or 7 years old and he told me I went with him to "help" and I believed him. :) He was really great. Before they passed he and my grandmother were living in an assisted living place and after being married for about 200 years decided to get divorced. :D They didn't.
As I said, I kill every one I see, but please use a proper tool to get the job done quickly and cleanly. I won't use anything smaller than .22 magnum and that is for extremely close shots-less than 50yds. My normal 'yote gun is a Reminton 600 that I converted from .222 to .223 (cheaper ammo) or my .44 magnum Virginian Dragoon revolver. Both do a fine job on the little buggers.
I have one of those very old S&W Pellet pistols 9" barrel that shoot .177 cal. pellets with Bomar combat sights...it was used back in the day to teach recruits at the police academy about trigger control and sight alignment, very accurate with a MV of 900fps....Would take Chipmunks out with head shots up to 75 feet but would never think to use one on a coyote, I'm thinking you would be much better off with a .22 mag in a rifle (at a minimum) to get the job done clean....Doc :D
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