Coyotes getting worrisome

   / Coyotes getting worrisome #51  
I suspect most coyote "packs" are 2-generation family groups.

Bruce
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #52  
I suspect most coyote "packs" are 2-generation family groups.

Bruce

Yep. Teaching the Younguns how to hunt.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #53  
I am surprised they were there when you opened the door. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I'm am surrounded by corn fields. I can watch em run off with a chicken for quite a while before they disappear
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #54  
We definitely have at least a few lions around, at least passing through the area. I believe they have a rather large range. And also plentiful and very vocal 'yotes, at least lately. I suspect that a pack of more than two or three 'yotes is more than a lion would be willing to take on under most normal circumstances.

A full grown lion would annihilate multiple coyotes. Not even remotely close. This has been a funny discussion. You can tell who has never shot any coyotes. If you had you realized real quickly that they are not that big. Most coyotes I have shot were around 30 pounds +/-. Big lions are in the 125-200 pound range. Lions are built to kill big game animals. Coyotes are built to catch mice and rabbits.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #55  
You guys can keep your Lions and Wolves. I'll stick with the Coyotes, Bobcats, Foxes and occasional Black Bear.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #56  
You guys can keep your Lions and Wolves. I'll stick with the Coyotes, Bobcats, Foxes and occasional Black Bear.

I'm with ya, minus the Black Bear.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #57  
I'm with ya, minus the Black Bear.

You may get some eventually Richard. They come thru here once in a while coming up from Arkansas. They are Northbound. Lions too are returning to the area. Still pretty rare. I have never seen one, but I have seen the tracks. Others have game cam proof.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #58  
You may get some eventually Richard. They come thru here once in a while coming up from Arkansas. They are Northbound. Lions too are returning to the area. Still pretty rare. I have never seen one, but I have seen the tracks. Others have game cam proof.

Yep, think you are right about the Bears.

You are also right about the Lions. We call them Cougars. I've saw two. Didn't mention it because the nay sayers all jump in and tell me I saw a Bobcat or a Feral cat...... I was within 10 feet of one. I know what I saw. :eek:
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #59  
Yep, think you are right about the Bears.

You are also right about the Lions. We call them Cougars. I've saw two. Didn't mention it because the nay sayers all jump in and tell me I saw a Bobcat or a Feral cat...... I was within 10 feet of one. I know what I saw. :eek:

I don't doubt you for even a moment. I saw some huge lion tracks up by waynesville several years ago. There are many game camera sighting around this region of both bears and lions (cougars)... I hesitate to say cougar sometimes as the word cougar has another connotation in the last few years.
 
   / Coyotes getting worrisome #60  
I don't doubt you for even a moment. I saw some huge lion tracks up by waynesville several years ago. There are many game camera sighting around this region of both bears and lions (cougars)... I hesitate to say cougar sometimes as the word cougar has another connotation in the last few years.

The one I was close to I saw while riding my ATV. Wife and I were riding Southbound on a straight hilly dirt road. Wind blowing hard from the South. Topped a hill and this cat was walking down the middle of the road about half a mile ahead of us. We stopped and watched it for a few seconds. Being the "Manly Man" I am, I said I'm chasing it!!!! Off I went!!!! I was within 100 yards of it, running 50 mph when it noticed me. From the middle of the road it leapt on top of the 8ft high roadbank to the right. The adjoining field was old CRP ground. Grown up in grass/weeds waist high. An occasional 6-8ft tall tree. I climbed the bank on the ATV and no cat to be seen. I knew it was hiding in the field somewhere. Standing on the ATV, I'm idling around in the field trying to scare it up. I rode past one of the small trees and after passing it caught something out of the corner of my eye. The cat was lying flat beside the tree. When my eyes made contact with it's eyes it whirled and ran the opposite direction. By the time I got turned around it was into a brushy ditch. I rode back down the bank and onto the road where my wife was waiting on her ATV. We sat there talking about it for maybe a minute and she suddenly gasped and said there it goes, pointing back to the North down the road. About 150 yards away it calmly walked across the road, never looking at us. Was not the least bit scared of us. It never acted like it was out of control and running scared. Simply out witted us......

I'll take Coyotes anyday. :)
 

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