Varmints!

[MossflowerWoods]

Ok, seems a fox or a coyote (I know I have both on occasion) got one of my Guinea Fowl yesterday.

What do you use?

I have a couple shotguns (but I typically can't get to them fast enough) and I have a 9mm side arm and I open carry on the property (not all the time, but often).

Just curious...

 

[lockhaven]

put out some bait near a good hide and after they start coming in regular, wait in the hide with the shotgun

 

[Knight9]

We've lost one of our cats to coyotes in the last couple of weeks. Neighbors have as well. One neighbor lost their dog, and another a calf. The coyotes are really bad this year for some reason.

We have very tight gun laws around here, but I do live in an area that allows me to shoot on my property as long as I'm 200 meters away from any residence. I'll be trying to catch them out and about.

Good luck with your coyote battle!​

 

[creekbend]

Coyotes are numerous here in North Carolina also. They have been introduced in all 48 lower states, largely due to the Dept. of Interior under the Clinton Administration. Coyotes normally exhibit nocturnal characteristics, but during this past year, I have spotted them in broad daylight when checking my mailbox. They have becomed as brazen, even crossing well traveled rural roads during daylight hours. Many are shot by hunters during deer season from their stands. Around here in the triad, coyote hunters use distressed rabbit calls to bring them in closer. They usally don't bait areas; they just call them in. There is no limit as of yet how many you can shoot. The NC Wildlife Commission allows hunting of wildlife during season Monday-Saturday. No Sunday hunting is allowed statewide, even for non-regulated species. My son-in-law and several of my grand daughters friends hunt coyotes year round. Wild hogs are becoming a nusiance around here too. While I was at the neighborhood country store last week, I spoke to a HOG trapper. He had a sturdy and elaborate homemade cage on his trailer that he goes to local area farms to trap these Hogs that ROOT up everything in their path. They especially are fond of corn and soybean fields. Happy tractoring and good luck-from Creekbend.

 

[rrrkkk]

you may have coyotes or you may hav foxes but you won't have coyotes and foxes together. coyotes will kill foxes.

 

[Combustix]

I'll rent you my wife she has four of them this year with a 22 from the kitchen window.

 

[whistlepig]

Or you may have a racoons. This has been our worst year for us and our neighbors for racoons.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

you may have coyotes or you may hav foxes but you won't have coyotes and foxes together. coyotes will kill foxes.

VERY INTERESTING!!!!! I did NOT know that!

Thanks!

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Wild hogs are becoming a nusiance around here too. ... Happy tractoring and good luck-from Creekbend.

Same to you Creekbend!

I'd LOVE to hunt some feral pig! I've heard it is some good eating (and I love to smoke ribs etc...)

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I'll rent you my wife she has four of them this year with a 22 from the kitchen window.

That lady is a KEEPER! Good for her!

I'm teaching my wife to shoot. Of course that means she will end up a better shot than I am...