Coyote control

I use the old style glycol anti freeze to keep coyotes and wild dogs in check.

If you'll nail a coffee can to a post every 300-400' around your place the coyotes and dogs will drink it and commit suicide. If you have cattle or sheep just put the anti freeze outside the fence line so they can't reach it.

I take a large coffee can, nail it to a post so it can't be tipped over, rivot and arch top across it so that large animals can't get a snout in it. The canine will poke a nose down deep enough to drink and good bye coyotes and dogs.

Just watch out if you have dogs running loose because they like it too. You can put out the anti freeze at night and take it back up in the mornings and keep your dogs penned or chained so they don't get in it.

That way you don't have to be continually on guard duty and the coyotes are gone-gone with no hassle.

Really anything that goes bang would be good. My mother-in-law shot a rabid coyote with a single shot .22 and one bullet. Well, really two bullets. The first one just made him mad. She fought him off with the stock of the rifle until my wife came back from the house with more ammo. Wife only brought one more bullet. Stuck the barrel down his throat and that was the end. We had a talk with the women about carrying enough ammo to the party, i.e. bring the whole darn brick instead of just one round. I try to stay on their good sides, they both have pleanty of guts. Mom-in-law now uses my old 7 Mauser sporter for coyote control.

There is only one sure fire way to get rid of these varmits!

Move To Hawaii!

.243 with a solid spitzer boat-tail. If you just want to whack a dog and forget the pelt, use a hollow point.

.22-250 is the flattest shooting and highest velocity round commercially available. With a light bullet like that, wind can be a problem but the light bullet is a plus for pelt protection.

Any of the 7mm (7mm-08 or 7mm Rem Mag) are a bit of an overkill for coyotes but they don't suffer in the wind like lighter bullets do.

Reach out and "touch" 'em with anything you have. The harder they're touched, the better.

Coyotes are only "beautiful" as a coat (IMHO).

BTW the 22-250 is not the fastest and flatest shooting commercially available round today. That honor goes to the 220 Swift as it has since 1935. The Swift will sprint past the 22-250 by 200 feet per second when both are shooting the same weight bullets.

Some people around here have had luck with a rabbit recording, then ambush.

The State of Illinois has introduced Mountain Lions to our area to control the deer population, they say. The state claims that they only introduce one at a time to prevent breeding and they also say that the Puma will follow the deer population and leave the cattle alone. So far they have. It's pretty spooky to see one prowling around under the dusk to dawn light. An adult Puma can jump two stories from a flat footed position and hunts from the trees. I find them fascinating. I don't know what they are doing for the coyote numbers. I don't seem to hear as many coyotes as I used to. I blast coyotes if I see 'em with whatever is handy at the time.