Bout to give up on this coyote

Stephen G

Stephen G

Patriot Serving Patriots!
Exchange Privileges
Joined
Mar 21, 2022
Messages
1,818
Reaction score
1,893
Points
128
Location
Da South
Peak mating season. Got a female roaming solo and pack of atleast 6 coming through every night around midnight +/-.

Hot, cold, N-E-S-W Wind, 360° swivel chair, box blind, popup, tree stand, truck, car, clean clothes, dirty clothes, covered in hair and lent free.
Tree line, road side, canal bank or the swamp!
DOESNT MATTER!!!
FCKRS find a way to sneak up behind me!!
Im ready to mow down 10 acres with bush hog, dig a fox hole and stake some rabbits down in the middle of it with my Mac and 50rd drum.
 
Here you go. Download onto your phone and bring out your bluetooth speaker... :) Animal Sounds LINK
Scroll down to "Rabbit", download "Cottontail in Distress" and it will have them dancing around your campfire! :D
 
They are indeed wily. They hunt for a living.

They are smart enough to stay along the treeline and not enter my "zone of death". I think there's 4-5 but they are very stealthy and I'm not 100% sure. I actually admire how clever they are. Never full expose themselves to being shot. I watch them move around the perimeter with my hog gun thermal scope sometimes. I could pick them off with that scope in the dark without difficulty. I have nothing for them to eat or take from me so I leave them be.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
They are indeed wily. They hunt for a living.

They are smart enough to stay along the treeline and not enter my "zone of death". I think there's 4-5 but they are very stealthy and I'm not 100% sure. I actually admire how clever they are. Never full expose themselves to being shot. I watch them move around the perimeter with my hog gun thermal scope sometimes. I could pick them off with that scope in the dark without difficulty. I have nothing for them to eat or take from me so I leave them be.
Click to expand...
I still remember the first time I saw a real live coyote. It was standing about 250 yards away and as I looked at it through my scope cranked up to full 12x all I could see was Wiley Coyote staring back at me, almost with a shit eating grin knowing he was too far away for me to take a shot with my .22 . Then my neighbor stepped out with his AR in 5.56 and let one fly. Missed of course. But that Wiley Coyote face is burned into my memory now.
 
I have always thought it was a bad idea to kill predators. They keep the ecosystem in balance.

You can keep your chickens or whatever else safe, but you have to put more effort, time and money into it than most people are willing to do.

Coyotes, opossums, others do us a big favor keeping pests under control. Around my shack in the summertime the air is thick with dragonflies. They can be annoying but don't bite. They eat hundreds of mosquitos every day.

My basic philosophy has always been that if I'm not going to eat it, I don't kill it. Or give it to somebody else to eat.
 
Last edited:
Coyotes arent natural here, they decimate the ecosystems. Breed like rabbits with LARGE litters.
Wolves limit their breeding to available food sources. I like wolves, pretty sure we have some Red Wolf on a property in next county. DNR refuses to admit it even with hair, pictures and video though. I got pics of 1 female with 1 cub in 4 yrs. Dozens of fawn and literally 100+ turkey.

Coy and Coyotes DO NOT.
THEY ARE LIKE HOGS no useful purpose.
1 female yote 5 cubs atleast once a year!
Found several dead fawns this year and not a sign of the Turkeys. 2 yrs ago we had DOZENSSSSS stealing the deer corn and being a pest. Not a 1 this year. Seen a single fox this yr also. Years past I would see several during deer season.

Must of gotten some coyote urine on my electronic call. They have tried stealing it couple times. Once I went to pick it up, had 2 sitting in grass about 30feet away just watching me.
Even with the thermals its hard to see them in the grass. We can see them come across the road from a perch 20feet in air. Then loose them in grass.
 
He is 120lbs and disappears in the grass under thermals.
Coyote are 1/2 his size. They do come out and chase the rabbits in the road sometimes though.
20260130_152000.jpg
a27ee0a0-7f0e-41e7-8ec6-33f93a7ae4d3.jpg
20260130_165857.jpg
20260130_165751.jpg
 
384 Thermal. I can see deer and ID Doe from Buck at 400yds no problem.
 
From what I have read, if the coyotes skirt your open property and leave your livestock alone, then you should leave them be. They will grow older and teach the younger ones to stay out of your space. If a coyote is coming into your area and harassing your livestock it needs to be eliminated or it will teach younger yotes that it is ok to be there. How much truth there is to that I really don't know for sure, but after the seventh or eighth one I un-alived, they seemed to stay out of the open areas near my pastures and home. At least for a few years. It also seemed to help that I had a Great Pyrenees here but that didn't stop them completely from coming in close. I even had security camera footage of one trying to get my Pyrenees to chase it into the woods where I am sure there was a pack waiting. Shortly after that incident I spent a few evenings dispatching a couple more and haven't heard them close since. That was in the spring of '21.
 
Stephen G said:
384 Thermal. I can see deer and ID Doe from Buck at 400yds no problem.
Click to expand...
ATN Thor 4 Thermal.

Detection is spot on out to 500 yards if it's flat. At home, detection at that distance is limited by trees and uneven terrain. It's pretty sensitive. I can see tracks where critters were walking after they have moved on.
 
The other night I sat and watch bunnys hop around at 450yds. I could tell they were rabbits- they would jump 2foot straight up lmao and could see ears when they raised them.
Mostly blobs though.
The level of thermals at reasonable prices is just mind blowing.
At 1000yds I can see deer, detect movements at far end of property against the trees.
On the smaller things like coyote the heavy thick cattle grass is a problem. Unless in open area.
Its hard to see my dog in that grass with a thermal and he is HUGHE. 7 foot w/tail 30" at back and 120lbs. Loose him 10 feet into grass 😞
Atleast with NV I get the eye shine through the grass, utterly useless in brush or wooded areas. Nothing but splash back if running illuminator. Full moons works well in brush.

Read about a hybrid or ? Combined thermal and NV. Civilian units started over $10k
 
Curmudgeon said:
From what I have read, if the coyotes skirt your open property and leave your livestock alone, then you should leave them be. They will grow older and teach the younger ones to stay out of your space. If a coyote is coming into your area and harassing your livestock it needs to be eliminated or it will teach younger yotes that it is ok to be there. How much truth there is to that I really don't know for sure, but after the seventh or eighth one I un-alived, they seemed to stay out of the open areas near my pastures and home. At least for a few years. It also seemed to help that I had a Great Pyrenees here but that didn't stop them completely from coming in close. I even had security camera footage of one trying to get my Pyrenees to chase it into the woods where I am sure there was a pack waiting. Shortly after that incident I spent a few evenings dispatching a couple more and haven't heard them close since. That was in the spring of '21.
Click to expand...
Theyve been hunting the fawns heavy in this area. Found several , foot, head etc.
Few yrs back the fox/coyote club fence got taken out during a big storm. Took couple months to get it back up. Been a problem ever since.
I watch them cross the road about 700yds +/-. They disappear in the grass, they always send 1 to investigate. Thats all ya get. Yrs in that hunt club has taught them well.
Normally 5 to 8. If Im up a tree 20feet, I can catch a glimpse of them, eye shines if I have NV out.
1 comes out on road 300yds, then zig zags to maybe 75yds min. The others circle around behind me, never under 200 yds.
Had them try to steal my call while watching the 1 in road opposite direction of call.
Lmao something to do during my retirement I guess.
 
It's weird how efficient coyotes are at hunting but not eating. I've repeatedly seen young deer carcasses less than half eaten. Good for the vultures and other scavengers of course but the coyotes kill more than they can eat. And they don't seem to come back later for seconds.
 
Think most predators do that, focus on soft tissue 1st and mainly. Liver, lungs, heart etc.
I got atleast 3 fawns and doe dead, guts gone. Fawns they seem to drag parts off. Body in 1 place and leg or head 50yds away.
Hogs will eat a fawn too, I got both wrecking the place.
Not sure how many they killed the other night, but they were STACKED 4feet high. Must of been burning them few days ago. Entire county smelled like BBQ and Diesel.
 
Probably depends on the supply? No problem finding prey, they only eat the tasty stuff? Around my shack in the wetlands the carcasses get devoured. No hogs but there’s more scavengers. Also red wolves and foxes. Around the house in the woods I see a lot of leftovers.
 
There are enough creatures nothing goes to waste. Just serious and noticeable decline in the 1s ya want, suppose to be around.
6 yrs ago I could sit in my 20 foot tripod and watch fox chase rabbits, hawks and owls snatch mice. Occasionally the Bald Eagle would make a show of it, mostly stealing someone elses efforts lmao.
30 plus turkey hens allllll year round strutting making racket an giving me a migraine.
Had to take 5 yrs off.

Now- nothing hardly.
Saw maybe 3 turkey last 8 months, 1 fox and its was a grey fox not red. No Fox squirrels, hand full of grey.
Pretty sure even the crow population has dwindled.
Looking at getting my trapping license. Set up, sleep, return, shoot them in the head. Be done with it.
Yesterday I went and fixed a gate. Where Me and the dog had peed 5days ago had been scratched up and marked.
 

Share this page

Back
Top