Texas gov. shoots, kills 'wily' coyote during jog

I do find it funny that he thinks he needs a laser-sighted pistol with hollow points to deal with snakes. We must grow big mean serpents down here! (Everything is bigger in Texas, don'tcha know?!)
 
TangoWhiskey said:
I do find it funny that he thinks he needs a laser-sighted pistol with hollow points to deal with snakes. We must grow big mean serpents down here! (Everything is bigger in Texas, don'tcha know?!)
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Well,, after those varmints torched the governor's mansion, who can blame him...... Oh, you meant a reptilian snake... ;)
 
Glad I don't live in Texas, so I don't have to pack iron to walk the dog.
 
I can't help but picture a couple of unfortunate staffers tasked with trying to catch a coyote in order to stage this election-year event. I hope they didn't try to use an Acme Burmese Tiger Trap.
-harry
 
Ummm . . . if you come to Gaston's, it's probably not a real good idea to wear your Coyote costume on the flightline . . . pardner.

steingar said:
Glad I don't live in Texas, so I don't have to pack iron to walk the dog.
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I knew I liked this guy. He's the one that wanted to secede, right?
 
I had a meeting with Congressman Denny Rehberg (R-MT) a couple years ago. After the meeting, I said, "Sir -- I gotta ask -- what's the story behind the wolf?"

There was a gorgeous mounted grey wolf on the sill behind his desk.

"That's number 56."

Hunh?

"Yep -- 56... I raise cashmere goats. one morning I went out and found 55 of my goats dead -- bitten on the neck -- not for food, just for sport by this wolf."

"So the next morning I got out my rifle and waited for this wolf -- pow! -- 56."

Gotta love the West. :yesnod:
 
Frankly, I"ve dealt w/ coyotes before - a loan coyote can be scared off w/ a rock and a yell and continuing to go about your business unless it's rabid or something. That coyote was apparently standing there not charging or even creeping up. It was Perry who charged. Carryin' a weapon and shooting wildlife - even snakes is cowardly in my opinion and I'm a native Texan who grew up w/ big game hunting parents and I have pistols, rifles and my shotgun that daddy put in my crib when I came home from the hospital. So I'm not a "weany". I'm just not out to shoot any animal that happens to be living in its natural habitat and isn't actually threatening a self defense response. And even that dynamic can often be avoided if the human will exercise good judgment.
OK, rant over -
 
I had coyotes in my back yard in Colorado. They used to like to torment my dog. It was a residential area so shooting them was out of the question. One good thing they kept the neighborhood cat population down quite a bit.
 
My dad had a client who raised dogs and had a problem with coyotes breeding with his ******* when they came into heat. Lost a whole breeding cycle when that happened. When hunting on his land we were encouraged to try and reduce the coyote populations. Ever seen how fast a coyote can run when you are firing a .30-06 at him? I never did get the right lead and he moved faster each time a slug plowed into the ground behind him.
 
While our group was putting on one of the greens at Stonebriar Fazio course earlier this week, a mature coyote emerged from the woods, found a comfortable spot on the fairway about 50 yards away and gave himself a good scratching and grooming, seemingly oblivious to golfers.
 
We had a red fox living near our house in New Canaan Ct. One day I looked out the back and saw our young cat going across the deck at Warp 9 followed closely by the fox at Warp 8. Cat jumped up onto the tree and was soon out of danger. The next day I was in the car, in the driveway detailing the interior. The fox came brazenly up the center of the driveway and within 6 feet of me. Magnificent animal! I hollered at him and he was very surprised and disappeared pronto.

Over the next few days I had to chase him into the woods several times. Finally I launched a 3/8" BB with a slingshot at about 20 yards. I didn't hit him, but it was close enough that I am sure he saw it coming. Never saw the fox again.

-Skip
 
Everskyward said:
So do I.

What's up with this? The dog, yes, if it's a puppy. Him? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Mari. Its juts a fact of life. In PA, they stalk you at night in what people here call mountains but are really little hills. Go up state in PA and shine your flashlight and there are thirty pairs of eyes looking at you. In Colorado they are bolder and come out more in daylight. Ranchers hate them. Deer hunters hate them. To me they are just wild dogs. When I come back to CO permanently I will learn to coexist again.
 
I have hunted, and still do hunt coyote and fox. I skin them out and sell the hides. I shoot them with a Winchester model 70 .223. I have an old cassette player thing with a loud speaker that plays "coyote love songs" to lure them into range. Either that, or I drive around a section looking for tracks going in, that don't come out, then I glass the section to see if I can spot them on a hillside. Then I try to sneak in on the down wind side and get them while they are sleeping. I've been doing this since I was a teenager. I only hunt them from the first part of December through January, as after January the hides start to get "rubbed down", which means that pushing through the fences and brush has rubbed the fur off of the shoulders, which makes the hide worthless. I have to wonder about packing a pistol while you jog though. Where do you put it? I would think that it would be banging around all of the time. I have a friend though who carried his pistol while he mowed the lawn.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
"some coyotes have begun to act aggressively toward humans, chasing joggers and bicyclists, confronting people walking their dogs, and stalking small children"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote#Attacks_on_humans
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From what I've seen of coyotes around here they are 100 times more shy than stray dogs. There are plenty of children who play outside unattended and I've never heard of a coyote attack on any of them. I do think that one of my cats was a meal a number of years ago, however.
 
Everskyward said:
From what I've seen of coyotes around here they are 100 times more shy than stray dogs. There are plenty of children who play outside unattended and I've never heard of a coyote attack on any of them. I do think that one of my cats was a meal a number of years ago, however.
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Individually, yes.

In a pack?

Not sure...
 
I'm sure I posted this story somewhere on here, but...

A few years ago I was walking the horses into the stalls for the night -- they were going nuts. I heard what sounded like a rabbit cry, but thought nothing of it.

Went into the woods and followed the stream next to the property -- I found what looked like a deer fur explosion site -- no bones, no meat. Nothing but little tufts of deer hair scattered over a 25' area.

Less than an hour passed from the time I heard the cry until I examined the spot.
 
One time I saw a coyote out in a section, and he was moving to the West, into the wind, because coyotes hunt into the wind most of the time. So I drove around to a hill on the West side of the section, put out a little fox **** to hide my scent, and hunkered down in a ditch with my rifle and my binoculars. On the South side of the section was a paved road, and there was some traffic on it. I spotted my coyote about three quarters of a mile away, working his way my direction through a stubble field. Every time a car came down that paved road, the coyote would lay down between the stubble rows, and when it passed, he would get back up and go on his way. He was very shy. I tried a dying rabbit call to get him to come my way, but he paid no attention to it at all. Then I started kissing the back of my hand, making a squeaking noise that I thought wouldn't carry ten yards, but that coyote took notice of it and headed in my direction to investigate. Coyotes actually feed a lot on field mice, so making a squeaking sound of any kind will get their attention. So he came in, but stopped about two hundred yards out, sat down, and watched. I wanted him to come in a little closer, and I wanted to get him on all fours so that I could put one right in the middle of his chest. That way you only get one hole in the hide. If the bullet does happen to go all the way through, it comes out in a part of the pelt that you probably aren't going to sell anyway. A side shot gives you a big exit hole, and a lot of red snow. So anyway he wouldn't move any closer, and I was afraid to move a muscle for fear he would figure out what was going on. So at one point he turned his head off to the South, and i took a shot. I was shooting down hill which will always make you shoot high, and about two hundred yards out. I estimated it at two-fifty, so I shot over the top of him. It was so far out, that the bullet hit the ground on the other side of him, but close enough that the sound of the bullet startled him and he took off running straight toward me. I think that he was so startled by that bullet hitting so close behind him, that he didn't hear the gunshot which reached him a moment after. I had my scope cranked up to twelve power for the long shot, and when I got another round in the chamber, he was close enough, and my field of view was small enough, that I couldn't get him in the sight. Finally, I saw an entire scope full of fur, and I squeezed one off. He fell about twenty five yards in front of me. I would have liked a better bullet placement, but It wasn't that bad actually. OK, just a coyote hunting story, nothing more.
 
Everskyward said:
From what I've seen of coyotes around here they are 100 times more shy than stray dogs. There are plenty of children who play outside unattended and I've never heard of a coyote attack on any of them. I do think that one of my cats was a meal a number of years ago, however.
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My brother-in-law lives out on my dad's farm, and he claims that the coyotes will come in about a hundred yards from his house at night, and try to lure his dog out. He says that they have killed a couple of farm dogs that belong to his neighbors that way. I also know that they will come into a farm yard and kill baby pigs at night. Several winters ago I had a farmer call me up and ask me to hunt his property because the coyotes were killing his baby pigs. But they are generally much bolder at night, than they are in the day time. If you see one out wandering around late in the morning, or early in the afternoon, there is usually something wrong with it.
 
Maxmosbey said:
If you see one out wandering around late in the morning, or early in the afternoon, there is usually something wrong with it.
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Except maybe for mating season. That's the only time I can think of seeing a coyote out during the day around here. Which I think is right around now...
 
Trapper John said:
Except maybe for mating season. That's the only time I can think of seeing a coyote out during the day around here. Which I think is right around now...
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You could be right, I've never hunted them this time of year. The fur is all rubbed out, and there are too many farmers out in the fields to be blazing away with a high powered rifle. I don't know when the mating season is though. This seems a little late. What is the gestation period of a coyote?
 
Maxmosbey said:
You could be right, I've never hunted them this time of year. The fur is all rubbed out, and there are too many farmers out in the fields to be blazing away with a high powered rifle. I don't know when the mating season is though. This seems a little late. What is the gestation period of a coyote?
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I'll have to ask my park ranger friend about the mating season. But he's smart and doesn't really do e-mail/IM/cell phones.

I would guess coyotes have about the same gestation period as dogs, which is about 60-65 days.
 
Trapper John said:
I'll have to ask my park ranger friend about the mating season. But he's smart and doesn't really do e-mail/IM/cell phones.

I would guess coyotes have about the same gestation period as dogs, which is about 60-65 days.
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Dave googled it for us.
 
Trapper John said:
I'll have to ask my park ranger friend about the mating season. But he's smart and doesn't really do e-mail/IM/cell phones.

I would guess coyotes have about the same gestation period as dogs, which is about 60-65 days.
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Ah, yes. So then mating season would be "whenever a human leg is around", no?
 
Trapper John said:
That's the only time I can think of seeing a coyote out during the day around here.
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I see them quite often during the day around here. Maybe there are more at night but I am not a cat with night vision so I wouldn't know. :)
 
Crippled coyotes prey on whatever they can catch. My Jack Russell came in one night with big toothmarks that the vet said were typical of coyotes. I killed the sumbitch a couple of days later. A 22.250 will vaporize them.
 
Anthony said:
I knew I liked this guy. He's the one that wanted to secede, right?
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Anthony: That's kind of a running joke here in Texas. Many folk mention it in jest. The press ran with that last time Perry said it; the crowd chucked over it.

Best,

Dave
 
Dave Siciliano said:
Anthony: That's kind of a running joke here in Texas. Many folk mention it in jest. The press ran with that last time Perry said it; the crowd chucked over it.

Best,

Dave
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I understand Dave. Thanks.

I do love when any Governor stands up to the Feds though.
 
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