Coyote Problem

[jamesp]

Don't the instructions say to just start blasting away at the neighbour's deck with a handy 12 gauge?

[iscariot]

Don't the instructions say to just start blasting away at the neighbour's deck with a handy 12 gauge?

"Instructions"?

Clearly you meant to type "Constitution".

[powder11]

Fucking Americans.

and a masshole on top of that... 1/2 the street loves me and the other 1/2 are in process of trying to get me deported.

[plugboots]

Yes, just hang a coyote up, because "if they decide to wander into the area", (since they make decisions like humans), they'll read the sign and go to the neighbors.


Just like these catfish heads kept all the catfish out of that cornfield.

[jahoney]

dude... wat

A catfish coming through irrigation lines? Is that some sort of retard putting those up?

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I'm not seeing your point. Sounds like a "fuck you I'm right and not gonna tell you why, I'm just right and have no way to prove it" kind of argument coming from you.. Its known to work, I'm not the only person that believes it.

[philth]

I have no real neighbors FYI. There is a house down the road filled with some feral creatures that walk upright sometimes. I think the coyotes have taken some of their youngins but they dont seem to care. They poach deer off their front porch so no worries in offending them.

[powder11]

They poach deer off their front porch

Stupid deer probably didn't see the antlers hanging above the garage because if they did, they would know not to hang around that place.

[DAFTC]

Posting early after a night with fireworks and Pumpkin ale...were you insufficiently fortified?

[philth]

DAFTC..something about my Sig?

[philth]

Posting early after a night with fireworks and Pumpkin ale...were you insufficiently fortified?

Ha, yes probably not enough Pumkin ale. I could hear the fuckers again on the ridge but they stayed out of the "wire". No claymores were triggered and I fell asleep in my chair.

On another note I bumped into a lady from up the road. She had 5 barn cats a month ago and now has one. Probably why these guys have a taste for kitty.

[leroy jenkins]

Why? Humans are resposible for bazillions more songbird deaths every year than cats ever will be.

Really? I have read some studies that contradict that pretty emphatically.

Why do you say this? Not arguing, just looking to expand my knowledge base.

There are tons of stray/outside cats that kill shit all the time, there cant be that many pissed off middle schoolers with no friends, rage issues, and pellet guns who also like killing pretty birds. Ok there are a lot but I still bet there are far more cats.

[iceman]

I would imagine he's talking about destruction of habitat, Leroy. Corn fields don't hold a ton of songbirds. Plus, lumbering in overwintering areas in Mexico and down into S. America is causing lots of problems.

Cats do kill a shitload of birds though.

[skiballs]

The picture window and sliding glass door in my kitchen kill birds all the time .

[philth]

oh this is good. The organic hippie farm a few miles down the road who supplies our Thanksgiving turkey just sent us an email. No turkeys this year. They lost 40 of their 50 turkeys in one night to an unusually large pack of coyotes on wed night. Fuck this a crew of bad ass mofo's. They also said vt fish and game are involved.

[uglymoney]

Our neighbor lady is crazy and so she feeds songbirds year round with multiple feeders, multiple foods like peanuts, on and on so we have birds and pigeons and other crap coming and going. Last summer she was super pissed that a couple of hawks were stationed near her yard feeding on 'her' songbirds. She told me she was going to call the DNR to get the hawks removed?! One of the most retarded ideas ever. I found it kind of fun watching those hawks swoop in and take the birds but I haven't managed to get a picture of it yet.

So now the coons have found her stash and made it part of their nightly runs and my dog has discovered the coons. The other week I let him out for just a second and he tore around the house and shot up to the corner of our yard after them. I heard all sorts of screaching and yelping and ran around and called him back with the coon running away the other direction. He didn't have a mark on him but a coon will kick his ass every time. I have one of those live trap dealios so I'm going to put that up in the corner and try to trap him I think. Ran the idea past her sane husband but he wasn't biting claiming he'd pound them with a pellet gun which he won't since he works all the time. We are in city limits so discharging is illegal but pellet guns have always been common control tools among people I know for rodents. Not sure that a coon would give a shit about a pellet in his ass. For now I'm outside with the dog/shockcollar when I let my crazy little Aussie out at night. Pain in the ass. Thanks crazy bird lady neighbor.

[Crampedon]

.17 with a nightscope and sound surpressor for you urban dwellers. There is a loophole in getting rifle silencers,(go cart-mufflers) from NZ, but you did not hear it from me....

http://www.amazon.com/Yukon-Titanium...s=night+scopes

[Jethro]

.17 with a nightscope and sound surpressor for you urban dwellers. There is a loophole in getting rifle silencers,(go cart-mufflers) from NZ, but you did not hear it from me....

Some European countries, Finland and Norway come to mind, along with NZ have no restrictions on suppressors. It is considered the polite thing to do. Here an illegal silencer is good for about 15 years in prison

If you buy an air rifle with an integral silencer or a shrouded barrel, then they are legal, as long as they cannot be installed on a firearm. Something like this but shrouded (these are not). http://www.adventuresinairguns.com/d...a8abceaebfe824. also https://xp-airguns.com/Ranger.html.

This one is the ticket but is pricey. http://www.crosman.com/airguns/rifles/pcp/BPE3571LE

[Jer]

Don't get me going on the bullshit suppressor laws in this country.

If I don't have a "suppressor" on my truck, I get a ticket. How/why suppressors got lumped in with the other NFA stuff is beyond me.

[jamesp]

This one is the ticket but is pricey. http://www.crosman.com/airguns/rifles/pcp/BPE3571LE

hunting with an air rifle, WTF? Do these actually work? air rifles I remember seeing when I was a kid were very tame, low power.

[iceman]

hunting with an air rifle, WTF? Do these actually work? air rifles I remember seeing when I was a kid were very tame, low power.

They look pretty cool and you can still get one in time for Crosman's Undead Awareness Month!

[Jethro]

hunting with an air rifle, WTF? Do these actually work? air rifles I remember seeing when I was a kid were very tame, low power.

These are deadly weapons. Lots of youtube videos of hunters killing deer and pigs with them. The .45-50 cal air rifles have more energy than a .45 ACP. They are shooting 400 grain bullets at the same velocity as a .45 handgun.

[Crampedon]

Wow! Really? So a head shot to a 100 lb axis deer should drop them...

Accurate to 60-70 yards?

I will use the google

[plugboots]

Bumping this. So what happened with the coyotes?

Since TGR loves anecdotal evidence... a ski buddy killed a big male mountain lion about 10 miles from my house on his property. Being who he is, he was in the paper for it. Of course 2 months later when his cattle dog was eaten by the lions replacing the dead one he was a little less proud.

[timnormandin]

http://www.google.com/search?client=...2aEbG50QHj0YDg

Circle of life, baby.

[Death Cookie]

I just had a similar issue (crazy neighbor lady was feeding coyotes). The coyotes would sit under her deck until she came out or until our dogs would go batshit. Luckily, we have some great sheriffs in town and they came and shot the coyotes with rubber bullets. Haven't seen or heard coyotes in 2 weeks.