Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
Good time for a thread like this.

How do y'all feel about coyotes?

I was in the back yard with my daughter's little Jack Russell/Poodle puppy last night about dark. She was just running around having a good time when 2 German Shepard sized coyotes came loping across the yard headed for the woods.

One turned, lowered it's head and made a beeline for the little dog. I ran straight at it hollering at the top of my lungs, and it turned away about 20 feet from snapping up a quick meal.

My first inclination is to do some backyard still hunting with a long gun. Haven't hunted since I was a teenager, and don't relish the idea of shooting anything, but I just can't have coyotes coming up in the yard.

The way I got it figured 2 or more of them together is fatal to anything small, and dangerous to anything medium sized that happens to be in the yard.

Last couple of years I've heard a pack of them at night in the woods behind, and out the fields in front of the house. Godawful racket that makes my hackles rise.

Prolly wouldn't have to nail but one or 2, and they'd stay away (I hope).

Is it legal to shoot coyotes? Am I over reacting? Anybody else dealt with something like this?


Hey Jim, I'm just seeing this and here's my direct gut anwser then I will explain.

''Whack'em Pack'em and Stack'em''............Ted Nugent. I wish it was mine...

They have no natural predators in the state except occassionally domestic dogs get the better of an individual Yote. They will prey on your pets Jim. That is becoming a serious problem. Here in the county numerous incidents have happened including one lady watching her little Yorkie gte snatched right by the steps of their deck while she watched through the kitchen window doing dishes. They are multiplying with staggering numbers.

They are a unprotected ''Varmit'' species. Jim get your rifle's ready and take them out around your house you are perfectly legal to do so and the department encourages it, albet silently. Bust'em Jim, take'em out....

If they are seen on our farm we hunt and they are in range they go ''Horizontal''