johntheplinker
Master
We've had an infestation of coyotes here this summer and they've been wreaking havoc on the rabbits, turkeys, and fawns. They've gotten so brazen they'd come out in the yard almost any time. Usually if I'd see them by the time I could get a rifle they would have moved on.
Well, yesterday I had finished up in the shop and was sitting in the door watching a couple of deer feed under the apple trees. All of a sudden the deer went from totally calm to absolute panic instantaneously, running past the shop into the woods. I know I didn't spook them, they will ignore me while I'm out futzing around in yard and not really pay me any attention until I get within about 25 feet. So, something was up.
I reached over and picked up my .223 T3 that I had thoughtfully took with me to the shop and chambered a round. Sure enough, 3 yotes popped out of the edge of the woods and started working the edge, one on the outside in the yard, a second just inside the woods and the third in the middle and behind the first 2, following the basic path the deer took.
I watched them a bit then raised up the rifle and put the crosshairs on the one in the yard, as it was the only one I had a clear shot on. It paused for a second and raised its head up, like it knew something was up. That was all I needed, when the crosshairs settled between its eyes, I pulled the trigger...
It might, might, have seen the muzzle flash. Bullet hit just slightly above the centerline of its eyes, blew out the top and back of the skull, then hit it again slightly to the left of the spine, severing it also. No "magic bullet" ala JFK, the shop sits up on a rise and I was shooting downhill. Tried to get a shot on a second one but the other 2 were already halfway to Dubois Co. Should have had an AR.
Young female, so she won't ever breed and make more of the bastards.
And now a couple pics of a very dead yote that has killed its last. Sorry about the blurriness, it was so humid the camera lens kept fogging up.
And some blood, brains , and gore.
Well, yesterday I had finished up in the shop and was sitting in the door watching a couple of deer feed under the apple trees. All of a sudden the deer went from totally calm to absolute panic instantaneously, running past the shop into the woods. I know I didn't spook them, they will ignore me while I'm out futzing around in yard and not really pay me any attention until I get within about 25 feet. So, something was up.
I reached over and picked up my .223 T3 that I had thoughtfully took with me to the shop and chambered a round. Sure enough, 3 yotes popped out of the edge of the woods and started working the edge, one on the outside in the yard, a second just inside the woods and the third in the middle and behind the first 2, following the basic path the deer took.
I watched them a bit then raised up the rifle and put the crosshairs on the one in the yard, as it was the only one I had a clear shot on. It paused for a second and raised its head up, like it knew something was up. That was all I needed, when the crosshairs settled between its eyes, I pulled the trigger...
It might, might, have seen the muzzle flash. Bullet hit just slightly above the centerline of its eyes, blew out the top and back of the skull, then hit it again slightly to the left of the spine, severing it also. No "magic bullet" ala JFK, the shop sits up on a rise and I was shooting downhill. Tried to get a shot on a second one but the other 2 were already halfway to Dubois Co. Should have had an AR.
Young female, so she won't ever breed and make more of the bastards.
And now a couple pics of a very dead yote that has killed its last. Sorry about the blurriness, it was so humid the camera lens kept fogging up.
And some blood, brains , and gore.
Also found that at least around my neck of the woods the males are more cautious while the females run straight in on the food. As far as eradicating them, the farmers out west tried that for many years without success, its more about managing their numbers. i like watching and studying them almost as much as i like hunting them. They are an amazingly adaptive animal.
