You will never eradicate them. With that being said SHOOT all on site ASAP. We shot 3 this small game season here in Western PA, we were not even hunting them we also had a small pack of beagles with us! This is how brave and plentiful they are here in PA.

We hear them often here during deer season when they get a kill or find the hunters' gut piles. They are not native to Florida but I am conflicted about hunting them because they have learned to pick off wild piglets from the growing hog problem

At the present time the thread right after this one is titled "military Mortor Ranges". Some might call it coincidence but I would be inclined to regard it as a Hint.

The only way you will somewhat reduce the numbers is with a trapper who is versed with coyote control. Even that is just a temporary reduction.

Unless you have livestock or another reason to reduce coyote numbers I'd just take whatever action you can. Taking a few may make you feel a bit better, when able.

I like to put Winter roadkill in our back field, for opportunity shots on coyotes.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: sourdough44,

What's a good round for coyote?

Anything from .223 on up.

quote:

Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
What's a good round for coyote?

I saw one in the bottom and the first rifle I grabbed was a .300 Win Mag. Probably over kill.

We have them move through every few years. The move down the green belts hunt through and move on. Outdoor cats are a favorite. Had a neighbor that had his cat hunt my bird feeder. One day my daughter called and said the cat was gone. A coyote carried it off. Never did tell the owner what happened.

My lot is on the outskirts of their range so I only see one or two per month at night.

Sometimes I get a video of them chasing a deer. They have taken out the neighbors cats. At one time there were whip-poor-wills and two coveys of quail but the neighbors cats did some damage I am sure.

Guy down the road got a couple of deer and bagged the gut pile. Tomorrow, we are sitting up chairs and benches about 250 yards away from the gut piles.

quote:

Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
What's a good round for coyote?

22.250 works very well. Ask all the dead ones I shot in the desert.

Walking my dog this morning we came across 4 adult coyotes in a pack. Time for me to think about some proper protection for my dog.

Besides carrying a S&W Shield, would FOX brand One Point Four spray be a suitable deterrent?

On the outskirts of Tucson, the dangerous critters are still alive and well here.

Not my current Mal but my previous GSD..trained her to go after the fucking things. They’d sneak up from the creek in my neighborhood, into the park, and try to intimidate. Not a whole pack mind you. 1, 2, or 3. She’d look at me like “please daddy” and I’d say no, so she’d look at me again “pleeease”. Ok then “FAAS” and she take off after the little fuckers. She chased one into the creek, did a look back and said it again and she swam a 1/4 mile through the creek. Coyote was swimming for its life. We have multiple packs here. You can hear them at night doing the same thing, yelping and going bat shit. They try to intimidate but get scared easily. Only thing that worries me is a full pack of them and you notice they are all super thin, starving. That’s when they are dangerous. Rest of the time fuck em.

I have 3 packs of them near my house. One of them gets together to hunt directly across the lake from my house. It will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up listening to them getting together while they get all amped up.

I believe I showed the pictures of what happened to a deer that thought it was going to jump in the water and swim across to get away from them.

Unfortunately for the deer this was in December and the water was frozen so the coyotes went onto the ice and just mauled the deer. One night and that deer was nothing but bones so there must be pretty many in that pack.

Behind my townhouse is a small year round stream that attracts all kinds of wildlife. The Coyotes work it to death, literally. My Deer population is way down and so are the Cottontails. The Great Horned Owls are contributing to the demise of my rabbits, too.
The food chain, right up in your face.

quote:

Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
What's a good round for coyote?

Anything between 17 HMR and 50 BMG

We have a couple of packs (at least) in our neighborhood. They howl at sunset and 1am-3am. Or when they take down a javelina (80 pound pig like animal with tusks that run in groups of 4-12). They will grab rabbits, birds, cats and dogs. Some of our local coyotes have cross bred with dogs, I’ve seen a couple that are bigger than normal with long, yellow gold hair. When I walk the dogs I carry a pistol.

Nextdoor is full of reports of coyotes snatching cats in broad daylight. I hear them near the house sometimes. Seen them on my walk to the train a few mornings.

quote:

She’d look at me like “please daddy” and I’d say no, so she’d look at me again “pleeease”. Ok then “FAAS” and she take off after the little fuckers.

Be very careful; coyotes are very clever and will use “bait” to draw domestic dogs into pack traps where the breeds size and fighting prowess makes no difference.

 
We hear them year-round, all the time (random times). Sound carries very well in the desert, and they can be a couple of miles away on state land, or right next to our property in the wash. Most often, it is the train horn that sets them off. There is a grade crossing about a mile from our house.