Red Head Pitched A Fit!

[Sprinklerman]

Catch and release .........................Chicago is running low

 

[1965]

There are a group of hunters in my area that run them with dogs, they get between 80 and 120 a year and have been doing this for years. Seems to be and endless supply. They can really regulate their reproduction to match the conditions they live in. If you kill the alpha female it open your area to all the other packs around and can really increase you problem.

 

[Zerk]

So this thread is about a guy getting yelled at buy his wife? I was guessing it was some clever use of words.

 

[the old grind]

Quoting the Mrs can be more trouble than the coyote that threatens her charges. One clash at a time.

 

[dodge man]

As a rule, coyotes won't hurt people but there are exceptions. I'm a big guy but I get why your red head is alarmed. I get a little freaked out when outside at night and I hear the howling. The only ones I've shot were just targets of opportunity. Like mentioned in the Wolf thread, it seems calling them in doesn't work much any more. They are smarter than that.

My experience is coyotes are near perfect predators. There only natural enemies is man. They are fast, have great stanima, good eye sight, and a good sense of smell.

 

[mark02tj]

As a rule, coyotes won't hurt people but there are exceptions. I'm a big guy but I get why your red head is alarmed. I get a little freaked out when outside at night and I hear the howling. The only ones I've shot were just targets of opportunity. Like mentioned in the Wolf thread, it seems calling them in doesn't work much any more. They are smarter than that.

My experience is coyotes are near perfect predators. There only natural enemies is man. They are fast, have great stanima, good eye sight, and a good sense of smell.

Not too long after we moved out here, I was on my back deck, after dark (and a long day!) grilling a steak. I was also in just my skivvies as I'd just gotten out of the shower (and we're pretty secluded). I was tending to the steak and turned around to see a coyote walking the brush line along our woods, heading up towards the smell of my steak. I looked at him, he looked at me. I said "what are you doing?!" and he ran off into the woods. I know that coyote attacks are pretty rare, but I did feel a little "vulnerable" out there with next to nothing on!

I think most of the coyotes around here have moved on. I haven't actually seen one on our property for a few years. And, I rarely hear them at night any more.

 

[hillwood]

We have coyotes, wolves and bears in our woods. I try to take out the coyotes when I see them. The woods around us are state forest.

 

[Sysop]

Boy Howdy! If you ain't never seen a red head pitch a fit....you need to. :laughing: I worked night shift 6pm-6am the last week. She went to walk her little dogs and came back to the house "pitching a fit". It seems that it is MY Fault that a coyote ran right by her on said journey. Yes, there are coyotes down in the woods behind the house. Yes, I get them on game-cam occasionally. No, I am not going out hunting a coyote after working all night....certainly not right now, as she demanded. When I drove up the drive this morning after working all night, the same one that has been hanging around ran across in front of me. Those things can run about 40mph from what I read recently. It was sure streaking it. I guess I'm going to have to do something. I can get a nuisance permit from the game warden to shoot them night/day and that would make it a little easier. I need to get the hurt rabbit call and the little tail thing on a rod that twitches like a rabbit or such. I don't know which is more annoying...a 60 year old red head or the coyote...lol :confused2: When I told her this morning that it had zoomed across the drive....she had another fit because she had just let her two cats outside. Guess that is one way to get rid of house cats....not really, they are nice cats (at least as a cat can be, which is something a little lower than having an angry honey badger snarling just before gnawing your finger off). This particular coyote does not seem to be that worried about us living in "his" territory. My oldest son across the road shot to run it off and it still came back the next day. Well, shes been putting up with me for 40 years in May, so I can earn those supposed browny points (that are never around when I need them) by dressing up like Rambo and going down in the woods and doing all kinds of crazy shooting and tell her, "Yep, got 'em all". :laughing:

Just drive out in the woods in your truck and nap in the cab. She'll never know...

 

[orezok]

Things are a little different out here in the desert. If it wasn't for the coyotes, we would be overrun by rats and black tail hares (jack rabbits). There is not much other game to hunt. The rats get into the equipment and chew on wires and the hares eat everything. One year my wife wanted some roses. The hares ate them to the ground including the thorns. They will also kill young trees by chewing of all the lower bark to get to the moisture in the cambium.

The coyotes typically hunt singular in summer and pack up in the winter. I've only killed one yote in 20 years. It was a young one and twice it started to approach me as I was outside. The second time was it's last.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Coyotes were howling up a storm 2 nights ago and very close to our house down in a ravine. Our 2 60+ lb dogs were raising all kinds of h*ll right back at them. Since both dogs are pretty young and in real good shape being outside 100% of the time I think they could hold their own against the coyotes. The neighbor hunts coyotes from his porch on deer carcasses with his .223 or .22-250. He's got a nice wide open field in front of his house that he stakes the in. One problem lately is we have Bald Eagles eating the deer carcasses along with Turkey Vultures.

Kevin