How big of a nuisance are coyotes?

I saw a video where a guy had trained two dogs to draw coyotes in close enough to shoot. The dogs would chase the coyotes for a while then head back to their owner. The Coyotes would follow the dogs and get blasted by the hunters...It worked really well.
 
once but our neighbours had a black lab and there were some big black coyotes running around the country for a few years. Figure that one out.
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I'd say he showed them who's their daddy! That's some amazing stuff, fisherman - too smart! Reminds me of the fishing birds that would come and steal bread off the pond surface (thrown by humans for the ducks), then carry the bread to a safe location, put bread in water, wait for fish to come up to eat bread, then eat fish.
 
I have a small place in Young county, Texas outside of Graham. We have coyotes al over the place and they often come in very close. My neighbors who are local boar goat farmers hate them with a passion. I have seen two of them try to get into a dumpster right down the road. They are smart, crafty and very adaptable. They drive my dog (Catahoula Lab mix) crazy with all the howling and yipping they do at sunset. My Henry .22 hasn't been very effective. That is why I now have my AR15A3 w/ 3x9 scope.

LM...Ft. Worth, Tx.
SFC US Army (ret. 1996)
 
My neighbor runs cattle for beef and he does not like them at all. The pups often chase the beefers for fun, and they die from the exertion and shock or heart attack. We don't think they were actually hunting the steer, but they ended up dead anyway.

His biggest fear is that if they start figuring out that they can kill them this way they will keep doing it. He does lose some calves every once in a while. He wants them shot whenever they are seen.
 
coyotes are hard on cattle around here. My family runs about 60 head of cattle and average about 2 calves a year. If they catch a cow having a calf they can kill both. Plus a coyote seems to be much tougher than stray dogs. I don't hold the cattle losses against them, at lest they will eat what they kill a dog will do it for fun.
 
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