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As some of you may know we live in a pretty country place. We've always heard yotes in the distance making calls in the middle of the night but we've only seen one in the two years of living here. Fast forward to this morning...

My wife had let the chickens out and our guineas had came down from the trees. It was about 730 am so it had be daylight for awhile. My wife was in the backyard when she saw a coyote about 4 feet from our fence line locked in on something. She screamed at it and it didn't stop what it was doing. It was focused on our guineas so it went to attack. My wife made a shot from her pmr30 about 50 yards out but didn't hit it. The noise scared it into retreat. As she ran to the fence line it was moving pretty fast along so she fired a few more rounds but didn't hit it.

My question for the group is I thought coyotes wouldn't come anywhere near a place that had tons of human smells? Also, the fact that it was daytime, albeit morning, shouldn't it have been sleeping at that point?

My wife said the coyote was huge 70+ lbs and a color she wasn't expecting.

Looked like the top one but was the color of the second a light tan.
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They are def loosing their fear of people. They are changing and adapting as they lose habitat and their food supply is dwindling since the wolve population has been decimated coyotes have became quite an issue.
 
I doubt it was 70lbs. The amount of hair make them look bigger than they are. They’re brave at my house. I shoot one about once a month that decides to come out in the yard and stand around too long. They’re braver when they’re hungry, and short of killing them, you aren’t gonna keep them away with all the food you have on your property. Find someone local to trap them would probably be the easiest thing to do
 
Burt Gummer said:
I doubt it was 70lbs. The amount of hair make them look bigger than they are. They’re brave at my house. I shoot one about once a month that decides to come out in the yard and stand around too long. They’re braver when they’re hungry, and short of killing them, you aren’t gonna keep them away with all the food you have on your property. Find someone local to trap them would probably be the easiest thing to do
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She was going on the size of it vs our dogs to make the estimate. Needless to say it was huge for a coyote.
 
Slacker said:
FoxPro call & predator light.
It's a beer drinking sport.
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I don't want to bring them close to the house considering we have so many animals in our care. We run a 501c3 non-profit animal rescue.
 
Slacker said:
Sounds like they are already close to the house. Traps, fences or lead poisoning...thems the options.
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Yeah lead poisoning preferred but I don't want to call close to the house. Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way.
 
Coyotes are seen all the time in suburban areas with tons of human smells. There was a yote killed about 3 miles from my house in a neighborhood off of Falls of Neuse road. They are intelligent and adaptable.

You are probably going to have to trap or shoot this one if you want it gone.

Edit: a couple years ago, I nearly hit one with my truck when it ran out in front of me near Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem.
 
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Climberman said:
Coyotes are seen all the time in suburban areas with tons of human smells. There was a yote killed about 3 miles from my house in a neighborhood off of Falls of Neuse road. They are intelligent and adaptable.

You are probably going to have to trap or shoot this one if you want it gone.

Edit: a couple years ago, I nearly hit one with my truck when it ran out in front of me near Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem.
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Looks like I'm going to spend a night outside then. I'm wondering if I can get someone to call a good distance away from the house.

I have a 300blk SBR that needs it's legs stretched but I'll need to remove the ACOG and put something else on it.
 
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We have them here. They put up a hellava noise when a firetruck or ambulance with a siren going out on the highway. Tracks everywhere and one dead duck but I've only seen one. A long way off and just for a few seconds.
 
amnesia said:
I don't want to bring them close to the house considering we have so many animals in our care. We run a 501c3 non-profit animal rescue.
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I hate to tell you but they are allready there. The only thing calling will do is make them pop their head up. Trapping them is really the only way to erdaicate them. In my experience shooting them only serves to educate the majority of the pack making the next to impossible to kill.
 
nchunt101 said:
I hate to tell you but they are allready there. The only thing calling will do is make them pop their head up. Trapping them is really the only way to erdaicate them. In my experience shooting them only serves to educate the majority of the pack making the next to impossible to kill.
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Looks like I may call in a friend to come hunt them then.
 
Face it guys, if you live on un-fenced property of almost any size you have Coyotes. You may not have seen them but their there.
All of the homes in my area are on 1 to 2 acres with wooded divisions on almost all sides. We have Coyotes.... The neighbors don't want to admit it but we have them. They guy behind me comes looking for one of his damned "outside" cats that he allows to roam on almost a monthly basis. Now I will admit I'm responsible for the demise of 3 but the rest have become Coyote chow. I have of course blamed all of the losses on the yotes but he refuses to admit we have them. Whatever....

I have killed 3 in my back yard shooting from the elevated deck to the woodline (35 to 50 yards) with my EDC in 45 ACP. 2 of the 3 were DRT and the third one only took 2 more steps before lying down for the dirt nap. I have put out up to 6 leg hold traps but they are educated and know how to avoid them. I've evn tried snares but shooting is the only answer as long as the neighbors keep giving them food (pets) they'll keep coming. I walk Lucy every morning between 0400 and 0500 but I'm with her and have an EDC and a good flashlight so she's in no danger.
 
Pink_Vapor said:
The traps my son are pleased with are a steel cable noose with a triggering mechanism.
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Collarum? because snares are illegal for anything but beaver.
amnesia said:
I don't want to bring them close to the house considering we have so many animals in our care. We run a 501c3 non-profit animal rescue.
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Oops, to late.
They aren’t afraid of your smell when the smell of all those tasty animals are loading their nostrils.
You should shoot the ones you see and trap the ones you don’t.
Coyotes are land piranhas. They eat what they catch and it matters little to them what it is.

You will never “eradicate” all the yotes, maybe slow their predation during the fawning months but thats all we can hope for.
 
We have them at our place, but they are no longer a rural vs city creature, I see just as many on my property as I do in downtown Raleigh at night.
I've probably killed 5 or 6 in the years we have been here.
The last was broad daylight about 30yds from our house.
They are brazen when it comes to seeking food.
Trap the ones you don't see to shoot. Also control their food sources....if you have rodents, you have coyote food.

I would not recommend trying to poison them.

If you have the space, get donkey.
 
NCMedic said:
We have them at our place, but they are no longer a rural vs city creature, I see just as many on my property as I do in downtown Raleigh at night.
I've probably killed 5 or 6 in the years we have been here.
The last was broad daylight about 30yds from our house.
They are brazen when it comes to seeking food.
Trap the ones you don't see to shoot. Also control their food sources....if you have rodents, you have coyote food.

I would not recommend trying to poison them.

If you have the space, get donkey.
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We have two mini mules and one mustang but that's in the pasture. This was about 10 ft from our pool in the backyard. I can't really limit their food source as we have a non profit animal rescue at the house.
 
Spotted the first one on my property about two months ago, haven’t seen it around since. We have chickens and ducks that roam and haven’t lost any yet luckily. Hopefully if they get brave enough for that I will be here to get rid of it.
 
I live in a fairly large development in Apex. Probably at least 500 houses. And not any huge woods nearby. My neighbor has had yotes on the game cam and a few pets have disappeared. I'd say they are like commies. You may not see or hear them, but they are out there...
 
For those that coyote hunt... If I'm using 300blk suppressed will it be quiet enough to hunt more than one when I fire it. My subsonics are pretty quiet. If not I may switch to something else.
 
amnesia said:
For those that coyote hunt... If I'm using 300blk suppressed will it be quiet enough to hunt more than one when I fire it. My subsonics are pretty quiet. If not I may switch to something else.
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When I go to south GA to hunt them I use either a 22-250 or a 243 depending on the wind, neither suppressed. I've seen the field empty at the sound of the shot and then I've seen others stand next to the dead one and look at it like, "what's wrong with you"??

I don't know what makes them act one way or the other but when they stand still I can get several shots off quickly and get more than one on the ground.
 
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This is one my game camera picked up on the edge of my yard. I'm going to assume that it is a larger male. I never see them unless I'm driving, but hear then semi regularly. Keep in mind that the control will need to be continuious. Kill a few, a few more will just move in. I was looking at NCWRC report the other week, and reported annual coyotes hunted and trapped was in the tens of thousands. That was just in one year and I'm pretty sure that doesn't put much of a dent in the population either. Hopefully I didn't read that chart wrong. I also assume many more die naturally, in the road, or are killed and not reported
 
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amnesia said:
For those that coyote hunt... If I'm using 300blk suppressed will it be quiet enough to hunt more than one when I fire it. My subsonics are pretty quiet. If not I may switch to something else.
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Ditch the subs. I hit one in the boiler room last season and it ran off. I’ve gone to supers for hunting. With a can they are still pretty quiet.


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chiefjason said:
Ditch the subs. I hit one in the boiler room last season and it ran off. I’ve gone to supers for hunting. With a can they are still pretty quiet.


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Thanks. The other alternative is .223 but I expect to be under a 100 yards.
 
Mightyox04 said:
Either should work for the coyotes. That 22 mag might do it.
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The 22mag is a Savage bolt and the magazine needs to be jiggled to get the bolt to engaged if I need a follow up shot. I want it to be quick and dead.
 
The bigger question is why didn't they go with Wolfote instead? (three syllables) - fun to say.

Yeah they are some bigguns the past couple years; no idea why. I am over-gunned with 308.
 
concepthomes1 said:
I'm wondering why you haven't.....Let's build an elevated platform to lay down on and snipe them.
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Already have a cleared 15 acre field with a stand on one side of it.
 
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