Coyote problem

elkstopper · 05-02-2006, 08:57 AM

I live just outside the city limits. Yesterday afternoon, 3:30pm I look outside and a coyote is in the backyard. I think I now know where the neighbors small dog went and several neighbors have also lost cats.

I go outside and scare it off back into the woods, since I only have a highpowed rifle available at the time. I go back inside, not 5 minutes later it's back.

The coyote just sat and looked at me and didn't start trotting off until I got within 25 to 30 yards away from it, it didn't seem to afraid.

I've now got my shotgun( I would feel safe shooting this, but nothing hi-powered) back from my brother and I'm wondering what type of inexpensive call should I buy that wouldn't be to hard to learn. I'm thinking a rabbit call around dusk might be just the ticket.

I've never hunted coyote and never used a call, any suggestions?????

Thanks

BrianMaguire · 05-02-2006, 09:06 AM

Whats the problem? I welcome in my yard, they clean out the non native species quite well.

Quaka Wacka · 05-02-2006, 09:10 AM

A rabbit in distress call is pretty easy to use. And I'v killed plenty of yotes with 12ga hevi-shot T's. 00 buck also works well. If you want you can PM me and I could maybe even come by with my foxpro if you'd like.

BloodNtheboat · 05-02-2006, 09:15 AM

Load that scater gun with some heavy shot, get camoed up and use a cottontail distress call just before dark, or first thing in the morning, and blast that sucker. We just Lost a goat and a couple geese a couple months back to a couple yodel dogs, It was thier last meal!!!

myra · 05-02-2006, 10:53 AM

you can buy an electric call for under 30 bucks

billc_sbio · 05-02-2006, 12:47 PM

Last week, on my way to work, I saw one flattened on a road in a residential neighborhood, well INSIDE the Hillsboro City limits. :shocked:

JohnnyP · 05-02-2006, 12:59 PM

Hello neighbor...........let me give you a hand. :grin:

We'll get rid of Wile E. together.

sunshinefisherman · 05-02-2006, 07:38 PM

I live out past Redland and I am having the same problem except that we have lost 2 chickens in the last week. I'm afraid that now that our place is established as a food source that they will be back again and again. Maybe next time it could be a goat or a Llama. Anyway, I tracked it to the neighbors acreage behind me and it is a BIG bugger. Footprints are the size of a very large dog which makes me wonder if it's pure Coyote or a mix. Anyway, I got permission from my neighbor to hunt on his property so when I get back from blasting sage rats in Lakeview this weekend, I'll get to work on the Coyote. I was thinking about tethering one of the chickens out in the clearcut and setting up 100 yards away with my .17HMR.

When I lived in Colton 15 years ago there was a community problem people who dumped their unwanted pets in the country thinking that it'll be OK in the wild. Most of them either killed in the road or shot by the locals but some went wild. The result was feral dog/coyote mixes, basically a wild animal with no fear of man.
The woman who bought my house was confronted by 3 of them and they got between her and the house. She was fortunate that she was able to buffalo them by running at them and yelling. She called on a hunter friend to dispatch them.

It is this problem that makes uncollared dogs "shoot on sight" in the country. I remember this one dog dumped near my home that perked up everytime he saw a pickup truck thinking maybe it was his owner come back for him. The crestfallen look as I drove past was almost more than I could bear (and I am usually such a heartless SOB). After 3 or 4 days, the buzzards were eating on him. Don't know if it was a car or a neighbor and his .357 that killed him but I hope whoever dumped him dies as badly.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.

fishinpox · 05-02-2006, 09:18 PM

It's funny that this thread pops up. I live in Oregon City, 1/4 mile outside the city limits and had a coyote at 100 yards on friday morning. Normally it would be fair game, but the neighbors just started putting horses on the land behind us. Not smart to shoot that direction anymore. I did get some good footage however.

Rank Amateur · 05-02-2006, 09:24 PM

Had one come in to get the beagles dog food the other day. I'm in the city, but barely, will try to get out back and take care of this issue. The little beagle was raising cane even though she had her bark collar on!

Maverick Maxcat · 05-03-2006, 10:37 PM

A .17 or .22 rimfire is good to 100 yds or more, and fairly quiet. Go for a lung shot broadside. A shotgun is good for the same range with appropriate shells, especially on moving targets, but much louder. A .22 CF is actaully very safe, as long as "delicate" varmint bullets, such as Nosler's Ballistic Tip, are used. They basically blow up on contact with anything, no ricochets or pass-throughs. Accurate past 400 yds in the right hands, but loudest of all. Our nearest neighbor is 7 miles, so the .223 gets all the longer jobs here! :grin: :grin: :grin:

ehunter · 05-04-2006, 06:44 AM

They are all over the Hillsboro airport. I talked to a maitance guy that works over there they see them all the time. Coyotes are like dandylyons they are hard to get rid of. LA is supposed to have a real problem with them in the suburbs??

duckboy · 05-07-2006, 11:15 PM

""When I lived in Colton 15 years ago there was a community problem people who dumped their unwanted pets in the country thinking that it'll be OK in the wild. Most of them either killed in the road or shot by the locals but some went wild. The result was feral dog/coyote mixes, basically a wild animal with no fear of man""

That sounds like the beginning of a really scarey story.

We should start up a thread to add to it.