Caught this one on the trail cam behind my house a couple of days ago.
Posted on 05/17/2012 4:09:20 PM PDT by SJackson
Have they made it to the WH dinner table yet?
By chance I received an email today which documented a case where a car hit a coyote at night at 75 mph in Utah and traveled over 600 miles with 2 stops for gas. When the driver inspected the front for damage at daylight, he found the coyote embedded in the front bumper and trapped up next to the radiator. The coyote lived with only a scratch to his paw. There were amazing pictures with the email. Unfortunately, I cannot post because I have no urls for the pictures.
We hit a coyote at night under similar circumstances in Wyoming at 80 mph. He did NOT live, but he did $1000 damage to the front of my car.
Caught this one on the trail cam behind my house a couple of days ago.
I don’t know where they got their weight range for wolves. It should be 50 to 150 lbs. I believe the infamous wolf of Minnesota, Lobo, was about 200lbs.
I live in southwest Connecticut. I have personally seen coyotes that I estimate to be the size of a robust German Shepherd - well over the 50 lbs indicated in the chart.
My uncle used to have a half dozen half wild dogs that looked like small huskies...about 30lbs each. They were either black, or white, or white with black spots. They all made coyote sounds at night. I think they might’ve been part coyote.
Here in Adirondacks we have coydogs roaming in packs and wolves roaming as loners. The wolves will not hurt people, just curious. The wolves have white bellies and are in the mountains higher up. This winter no coydog packs at all running around the house, with lots of prey and water in the lower mountains.
Inadvisable to go into the woods here alone unarmed or without a large Lab coz the female coydog will attack you from the rear while the male will decoy you in front if you are alone. Western coyotes I saw in downtown Hayward, CA, are much smaller than the coydogs here. The gray/white wolves here have large wide heads; the coydogs have narrow faces.
A wolf here will approach fearlessly and jump over a leanto blazing night campfire even if you have a .44; the coydog stay away. [My experience as a kid.] I have never seen a coyote here at all probably because the coydogs have been dominant since I remember in 1950`s, when they ran around the house in packs and destroyed the henhouse.
.223 or .22-250. Your choice.
They're about the same size as coyotes.
Why wouldn't they admit it!
The Coyotes here in New York are, according to DNA analysis, 60% wolf. They’re about 1/3 larger than typical coyotes and have no trouble hunting in packs.
I sometimes hear a coyote but except for rarely seeing one crossing the road, I never see them. There is just too much cover around here.
I have thought about calling them up but I just don’t have the right gun. I have high powered rifles but they are too much for a coyote and a .22 magnum may be a little light.
I guess I could use a .40 S&W or 9mm.
Of course, all of this depends on where you live. If you have neighbors close by they may not like this approach. $;-) Not to mention the local constabulary.
Nothing wrong with that...but why?
Look for more of them to be taken down via the long guns.
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