Coyote that should have got away!

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On feb.23 I came home from work just after 5:00pm and was about to take off my boots, when my cell rang. It was my 15 yr old calling to tell me that she, her brother, and mom were on thier way home. Looking south out the back door I spotted a yotey a half mile away. I told her I saw it and ended the call. I grabed my 1899 Krag carbine and took off on foot. First the wind was to my back and in the coyotes face, second when I was about 400 yds the family got home and started yelling and chearing at me. The coyote saw me but didn't scram. I set the peep for a 400 yrd shot but she ducked below a ridge, so I reset for 100 yd zero and started moveing again. I moved to the top of a small hill and spotted her again. She also was looking at me. She trotted west down the fenceline and I pulled up the old Cavelry gun and tracked her. I had taken up the first stage and was squezing when she stopped and looked at me. The trigger broke, the shot rangout, and I saw snow fly on the hill 25 yds beond her. As I looked at her and bolted the carbine I realized that she had went down in her tracks. I picked up my brass and walked up to her finding the shot had went in above her right eye an exited behind and below the the left ear. Very little damage and the nicest yotoe I'v ever taken. This is the first animal to fall to this 112 yr old gun since I got it 3 yrs ago. Also proof that even a blind chipmunk can get an acorn if he trys!
 
the shot had went in above her right eye an exited behind and below the the left ear.
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Yep, that's a good one! They disappear pretty fast with a hit like that, no thrashing or running, they just lay down.
 
Love the old Springfield Krag rifles. I hunted elk with one this year unfortunately I didn't see one. That .30-40 still kills game as well as it ever did.
 
So, any particular reason you like to shoot animals that are just mindin their own business....? Was it stalking your livestock? Stalking your kids? You gonna eat her? Or do you just have some bloodlust for killin creatures? Just curious as to why folks like shootin' 'yotes' so much, and you didn't really address it in your post under "the hunt" forum...

How exactly is a 'yote' supposed to get away when you're hundreds of yards away with a rifle? It's not like you're chasing it down with a spear, or heck even a bow, where it would have some realistic chance of survival... I'm frankly unimpressed when 'men' go out and blast 'yotes' or other 'rodents', without so much as placing themselves in any danger whatsoever (the biggest risk is maybe you'll catch a cold or twist your ankle or nick your gun) and think they've accomplished some feat...

How exactly is this a 'hunt?' May as well been a video game... Long story short: You saw a coyote. Grabbed your rifle. Stepped off your back porch. Shot a few times. Killed it. Congrats....
 
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1.He shot once.
2. Just b/c the Coyote was not threatening anything at the moment does not mean it would not in the future.
3. Coyotes are grossly over populated in many areas of the US. Populations beyond anything seen pre-European just like deer. The food chain/circle of life is all screwed up and there is very little competition for what are now top predators. Humans need to fill in for wolves and bears every once in a while.
4.You sir, have never raised livestock or you would not be ignorant of these things.
 
Lead Counsel,

Just so you know in my neck of the woods, there is a year round open season no bag limit on coyotes. Why? because they have become over populated by previous restrictions on seasons and due to abundance of prey.

I live in an area full of farms and livestock and let me tell you the farmers around here are very grateful when you can clean out some of these vermin. They are nothing more then oversize rats.

I suppose you feel that way about rodents too? that the mean old homeowner used a trap with peanut butter on it when shame on him he should of stalked it with sharpened toothpick. Well now that I fed the troll I hope you're full.
 
So, any particular reason you like to shoot animals that are just mindin their own business....? Was it stalking your livestock? Stalking your kids? You gonna eat her? Or do you just have some bloodlust for killin creatures? Just curious as to why folks like shootin' 'yotes' so much, and you didn't really address it in your post under "the hunt" forum...

How exactly is a 'yote' supposed to get away when you're hundreds of yards away with a rifle? It's not like you're chasing it down with a spear, or heck even a bow, where it would have some realistic chance of survival... I'm frankly unimpressed when 'men' go out and blast 'yotes' or other 'rodents', without so much as placing themselves in any danger whatsoever (the biggest risk is maybe you'll catch a cold or twist your ankle or nick your gun) and think they've accomplished some feat...

How exactly is this a 'hunt?' May as well been a video game... Long story short: You saw a coyote. Grabbed your rifle. Stepped off your back porch. Shot a few times. Killed it. Congrats....
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I cannot properly put into words how ignorant you sound, with those statements and emotional outbursts.

This is the hunting forum; not the "love all animals because they're cuddly" forum.

Do you get this angry when some one throws away a blank piece of paper? A happy tree was murdered to produce it.

As DaveinWoodland said - Many parts of this country have enormous populations of coyotes. Humans have created artificial food chains, that create an excess of food for predators. That excess of food leads to an excess of predators, and lots of bored animals. Bored animals kill things for fun, burrow into burrow into things they shouldn't, and harass livestock and wildlife.

Until the population of the U.S. wakes up, and starts caring for the environment and its native inhabitants; coyote populations must be controlled with high-speed lead injections.

It's a problem humans created. It's a problem humans are attempting to control.
 
I live in Colorado and this state like others im sure offers bounties for coyotes. This is the state dow telling you to kill coyotes, honestly, I dont see the point in it unless they have endangered livestock or people.
 
leadcounsel, first let me thank you for your services to our country.

Secondly, your comments clearly show your ignorance of the coyote. Left un-controlled the yote will be in your neighborhoods/parks chewing on fluffy and the children. Just last week, here in Ohio, we had a coyote alert(I think Grandview area, by Columbus, can`t remember). Not uncommon here.

Reproduction of the yote would be a good place to start learning. Getting out talking to livestock farmers would be a good place to research there distruction.


SingleSix, seems as though you and your old Krag "still have it".
Good shooting.
 
FrankenMauser "This is the hunting forum; not the "love all animals because they're cuddly" forum".

I must have made a wrong turn somewhere. Which way is the cuddly forum?
That's some funny stuff thanks FM
 
WOW JUST WOW!!!

Hey LC, You do realize that, in america, we quit the whole run 'em down with a spear when Al Gore invented this here internet thingy?

A person who spends 10K to prepare for a deer season hasn't the need for the meat and doesn't put himself in danger so why do we have the hunt section if no hunting is right in your eyes?

You reckon there would be financial, social, logistical and safety concerns if each and every type of hunting were stopped? YOU BET YER PINK SOCKS BUDDY!!!

Financial losses from animals would break the farmers bank then our wallet. The insurance claims from animal/auto accidents and attacks by aggressive, starving overpopulated critters would ruin the insurance industry or break us paying increased premiums.

Social loss would at minimum be from folks not being able to travel or go out from fear of injury and death.

Logistical damage in the form of important transport of goods and food being stopped or severely slowed by all the large critters on the roads all the time...

The safety issues are only lightly hit on in the above.:rolleyes:
Brent
 
Frankenhausen

Here after i finish my cup of coffee i'm going to go hunt some coyotes it will prob go a little something like this. I call for about an hour two coyotes come into range and either i get one or i don't about 50/50 and thats hunting and i will continue to do it no matter what kind of post you put up saying how unimpressed you are we won't change so don't come in the hunting forum and tell everyone how killing is bad if you want to talk like that i'm sure i could find you a PEDA forum our tree hugger forum you could try out just stay outta the hunting forum if you don't want to hear how unimpressive we all are.
 
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Well I guess I did a bad thing. Here in Nebraska the coyote is a varmit and folks shoot them on sight. Forget that it is calving season and they grab calves as they are being born. Oh and not only was this yote less than 500yds. from a heard of preg. cows, (Uh that is a group of girl cows that are all going to have babbies) but it also was less than 1/2 mile from my wife's chicken house. For the record around here a chicken house is a structue that chicken live in and lay thier eggs. Anyway I have seen the errors of my ways and will start today an turn loose all these farm animals and hang up my gun.


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LC, in my area, there is no limit, no season on "dogs". I hunt them as often as I can. Sometimes I hunt them for the hides, most times it is just population control. See, around here, we lose or used to lose a lot of the poults, (baby turkey), and fawns to these coyotes. The folks that farm in our area have commented to me that in the last few years, they have seen an increase in the Rio's around here. That is a good thing in and of itself, as it allows me to take my wife out and hunt the birds or one of the kids.

No, I will not try to change your mind or tell you to go somewhere else or another forum, because I'm sure you don't want me telling you what to do when you have the freedom to do so. Please just don't sound off so vehemently against a person that shot a coyote cleanly and did not have to chase a wounded animal, that is his freedom.
 
Ya know, I'll bet there are a lot of folks who think that the only way hunting could be a "sport" would be if the deer or coyotes or whatever had scope-sighted .300 Magnums or full-choke shotguns (or .30-40 Krags) too, and shot back. Or it would only be ethical if the rats could set IED's or the cockroaches had biological weapons.... wait! cockroaches DO have biological weapons!

Or if in some altered universe, hunters hunted each other and left the animals alone, like a Lasertron with live ammo.

"leadcouncil" implies it's a lawyer, probably one that works for the Brady Bunch or PETA or such.
 
So, any particular reason you like to shoot animals that are just mindin their own business....?
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I wrote to the VDGIF (game dept) a couple of years ago and asked them about the season on coyote's. They wrote back and told me on private land shoot every one of them you see.

That would be "reason" enough for me.

I'm frankly unimpressed when 'men' go out and blast 'yotes' or other 'rodents',
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Frankly rather you're "impressed" or not isn't important to me. I doubt it is to many other people either.
 
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