OT Coyote facts

[riverman]

Shotgun? 300 yards?

You wouldn't even need to hit them more than likely....I'm just fuckin' with ya Marz…..300 yard shot is a rifle shot for sure...I wouldn't shoot anything that far away

 

[MarAzul]

if you want to kill the pack, you go find their home, not wait for them to come to yours would be the best tactic.

Their home was undoubtedly on a neighboring ranch, that included a timbered hill side above the Wallow River.
I had no desire to kill all the Coyotes in the neighborhood, most were doing good work, hunting rodents mostly. I just want to thin down the the ones that had taken to Geese.
One time seemed to do the trick.

 

[riverman]

Their home was undoubtedly on a neighboring ranch, that included a timbered hill side above the Wallow River.
I had no desire to kill all the Coyotes in the neighborhood, most were doing good work, hunting rodents mostly. I just want to thin down the the ones that had taken to Geese.
One time seem to do the trick.

My neighbor has geese in a couple big ponds and he keeps all his livestock pretty safe with a 12 volt electric fence...those work from both sides.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

"Hey guys, as long as I have a gun I'm tougher than any coyote."

 

[riverman]

"Hey guys, as long as I have a gun I'm tougher than any coyote."

So you take longer to chew then

 

[MarAzul]

My neighbor has geese in a couple big ponds and he keeps all his livestock pretty safe with a 12 volt electric fence...those work from both sides.

I don't think you quite have the picture. This pond was about 6 acres. No way I wanted it fenced off from the wildlife. The grain field was down the length of each side, with perhaps 25 yards of riparian zone between.
The Wild Canadian Geese (not mine, just under my protection, with my support) brought their goslings out to feed in the grain field daily. No way to fence this, other than the fence the .223 could lay down.
BTW, it was not an assault rifle. It's named was the Ranch Rifle, made by Ruger Arms.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The Wild Canadian Geese (not mine, just under my protection, with my support)

MarAzul admits to having a sanctuary farm and harboring illegal aliens!

 

[yankeesince59]

You wouldn't even need to hit them more than likely....I'm just fuckin' with ya Marz…..300 yard shot is a rifle shot for sure...I wouldn't shoot anything that far away

Like Marz, I prefer a smaller caliber, a .243 which is the most accurate rifle I have ever experienced (even at 300+ yards) and I've tried many. Federal Fusion ammo is also my preference and I've tried many. Some of the guys I hunt with have larger calibers (7mm, .270 30-06, etc.) But as far as accuracy I'll stack my .243 against theirs any day. And believe it or not, they usually have to spend an hour or more to track and find the deer after the shot...I never do, mine seldom run more than 30-40 yards, even with a heart shot. Obviously accuracy and being a good shot has something to do with it but the particular ammo I use is amazing...expansion is incredible.

 

[MarAzul]

MarAzul admits to have a sanctuary farm and harboring illegal aliens!

Yes, I notice this amazing insight you apply, each time you delete a post.

 

[MarAzul]

I'll stack my .243 against theirs any day

>>> Agreed! The .243 is the most accurate of my own weapons. It earlier years, the .250-3000 is in the same class for accuracy. The .270 Winchester isn't too bad as long as to stick with long projectiles, due to the slow rifle twist.

the particular ammo I use is amazing...expansion is incredible.

I hear some of the modern projectiles do make the small caliber rifles much more viable. But I have not loaded ammo in the last 30 years, so I have not checked them out myself.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Yes, I notice this amazing insight you apply, each time you delete a post.

 

[MarAzul]

ammo I use is amazing...expansion is incredible.

When I first bought the .243, the factory ammo available for it from both Winchester and Remington was terrible. Made it a really bad deer hunting rifle. Too fast for the bullets used, they just broke up into too many peaces.
While another type, just whistled right on through, delivering little of the kinetic energy of the round. Then I loaded up some rounds with Nossler bullets. Made all the difference in the world. I hear there are even better ones available now.

 

[yankeesince59]

>>> Agreed! The .243 is the most accurate of my own weapons. It earlier years, the .250-3000 is in the same class for accuracy. The .270 Winchester isn't too bad as long as to stick with long projectiles, due to the slow rifle twist.


I hear some of the modern projectiles do make the small caliber rifles much more viable. But I have not loaded ammo in the last 30 years, so I have not checked them out myself.

If you haven't already tried it, you just gotta give the Federal Fusion ammo a try...here it is is the .223 caliber.

 

[barfo]

What's all this I hear about coyote farts? I've never smelled a coyote fart but I doubt they are worse than a slypokeranimal fart, and there are lots of those, you know! How do people even know what a coyote fart smells like? Maybe they smell good! Maybe we should bottle some...

Oh. Coyote facts? Nevermind!

barfo

 

[SlyPokerOwl]

What's all this I hear about coyote farts? I've never smelled a coyote fart but I doubt they are worse than a slypokeranimal fart, and there are lots of those, you know! How do people even know what a coyote fart smells like? Maybe they smell good! Maybe we should bottle some...

Oh. Coyote facts? Nevermind!

barfo

My farts smell like roses, thank you much.

 

[Natebishop3]

 

[MarAzul]

Choices at closing time. But only with the right load.

 

[Lanny]

Correct. They do not usually show themselves in areas with people, unlike Coyotes. I believe the last couple of mountain lion adult deaths were actually in Oregon in 2018, one around Mt Hood, one around Bend. However, if you do see them - they are a lot less willing to acknowledge adults than Coyotes. When I do my morning route - I do not care about the Coyotes (and I see them at least once a week), but if I see one of these guys - I am trying to turn around and disappear, I will ensure you that (only happened once in our neighborhood).

FWIW - I know of a cougar attack on a boy in Poway (not too far from us) last May.

I remember a cougar attack on a grandmother in Boyds, Washington about a week after we spent two weeks in about a mile South of Orient, Washington in an A frame cabin on the Kettle river. Gorgeous country there where our relative's cabin was once used by Speaker of the House, Tim Foley. So we were about 11 miles from Canada to our North and about 11 miles from Boyds to our South. So, this grandmother was doing housework of some sort while she babysat this toddler. Unbeknownst to her a cougar managed to nose it's way past a screen door on a warm summer day into the house where it found the toddler. It proceeded to grab the toddler's head with it's mouth and drag the child out of the house. The grandmother then learned what was going on and chased the cougar off with a broom. The next day hunters, and virtually all men around there are hunters, grabbed their rifles and went hunting. They found the cougar and killed it. Never had a problem since and this must have been at least 30 years ago.

 

[Lanny]

One of my favorites as a child. Read it several times. Right up there with Call of the Wild and Where The Red Fern Grows if you ask me.

Call of the Wild is one of America's greatest masterpieces.

 

[jonnyboy]

Gotta pic? Would love to see him.

I haven’t had him since I was 19 or 20, but I knew I had some pics around somewhere. I think he’s getting a bath in the first one. Got skunked.

 

[MARIS61]