Coyotes - I need advice

 
coalnewbie
Member
Posts: 8601
Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
Location: Chester, NY
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
Coal Size/Type: Rice,
Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22

Post by coalnewbie » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 6:22 pm

Coyotes, boy do we have them and at night they are incredibly noisy. I turn on our 1000w LPS light and they flee. However, that is not the question. We have a single wolf, not in a pack?? He looks like an overgrown domestic alsatian but somehow different. I was mowing in the back pastures and he looked as though he was going to challenge me but then ran into the woods. Saw him today for the first time in months. Ran away from us. Any ideas???


 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25559
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 6:39 pm

coalnewbie wrote:
Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 6:22 pm
Coyotes, boy do we have them and at night they are incredibly noisy. I turn on our 1000w LPS light and they flee. However, that is not the question. We have a single wolf, not in a pack?? He looks like an overgrown domestic alsatian but somehow different. I was mowing in the back pastures and he looked as though he was going to challenge me but then ran into the woods. Saw him today for the first time in months. Ran away from us. Any ideas???
Got any friends that like to hunt ?

Paul

 
User avatar
hotblast1357
Member
Posts: 5657
Joined: Mon. Mar. 10, 2014 10:06 pm
Location: Peasleeville NY
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1984 Eshland S260 coal gun
Coal Size/Type: Lehigh anthracite pea
Other Heating: air source heat pump, oil furnace

Post by hotblast1357 » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 6:45 pm

AR-15

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25559
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 7:36 pm

By the way, your "wolf" may be a coyote, or coydog. The eastern yotes are getting pretty big. Number of years ago a 58 pounder was taken west of Albany. The DEC tested it and found it had some Canadian red wolf DNA.

And the coydogs can be even bigger.

Paul

 
User avatar
hotblast1357
Member
Posts: 5657
Joined: Mon. Mar. 10, 2014 10:06 pm
Location: Peasleeville NY
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1984 Eshland S260 coal gun
Coal Size/Type: Lehigh anthracite pea
Other Heating: air source heat pump, oil furnace

Post by hotblast1357 » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 7:38 pm

We’ve got some big ones here also, and big cats lurking around to. Always carry a rifle or something in the woods, and around the property.

 
User avatar
freetown fred
Member
Posts: 30293
Joined: Thu. Dec. 31, 2009 12:33 pm
Location: Freetown,NY 13803
Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut

Post by freetown fred » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 7:52 pm

Not big into killin just for the sake of it. If he's being a bother, then YES.

 
User avatar
warminmn
Member
Posts: 8110
Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt

Post by warminmn » Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 8:03 pm

Coyotes, dogs, and wolves have different howls. That "might" help tell the difference. They will all look bigger this time of year with their fur getting thicker. Im not sure what to say would scare him away but if he's a problem shoot him or trap him.

The worst wild animals are ones that arent scared of people or are barely scared of people, no matter the kind. I'd want him gone.


 
bksaun
Member
Posts: 1037
Joined: Sat. Oct. 28, 2006 9:24 am
Location: Hustonville, Ky
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Legacy SF-270
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 503
Coal Size/Type: Stoker/Bit, Pea or Nut Anthracite

Post by bksaun » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 8:51 am

Just shoot the thing and be done with it!

 
User avatar
windyhill4.2
Member
Posts: 6072
Joined: Fri. Nov. 22, 2013 2:17 pm
Location: Jonestown,Pa.17038
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1960 EFM520 installed in truck box
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Crane 404 with variable blower
Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both

Post by windyhill4.2 » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 9:55 am

bksaun wrote:
Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 8:51 am
Just shoot the thing and be done with it!
x2

 
coalnewbie
Member
Posts: 8601
Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
Location: Chester, NY
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
Coal Size/Type: Rice,
Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22

Post by coalnewbie » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 11:49 am

Well I only saw him twice. once when mowing the back pastures 5 months ago on the Dixie Chopper and Friday. I did fit a MK-19 (flyer5s suggestion) on the mower so next time I am ready. Friday I was only armed with a toilet brush and I was going to the barn. I wanted to whack him with the brush but he was to fast for me.

 
KingCoal
Member
Posts: 4837
Joined: Wed. Apr. 03, 2013 1:24 pm
Location: Elkhart county, IN.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: 1 comforter stove works all iron coal box stove, seventies.
Baseburners & Antiques: 2014 DTS C17 Base Burner, GW #6, GW 113 formerly Sir Williams, maybe others at Pauliewog’s I’ve forgotten about
Coal Size/Type: Nut Anth.
Other Heating: none

Post by KingCoal » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 12:43 pm

it's been circling it's territory all summer. earlier you just happened to intersect with it out away from the buildings, this time it came all the way in since it hadn't encountered any threats.

it's cooling off and it'll be back establishing where the easy cover is and watching for a run on anything unprotected.

goin out ? go armed

 
franco b
Site Moderator
Posts: 11416
Joined: Wed. Nov. 05, 2008 5:11 pm
Location: Kent CT
Hand Fed Coal Stove: V ermont Castings 2310, Franco Belge 262
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood Modern Oak 114
Coal Size/Type: nut and pea

Post by franco b » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 12:48 pm

Though a toilet brush can be a formidable weapon it is not for the untrained.

I have never seen a mark 19 but judging from the bulk of the Mark 3 it is probably too heavy to achieve accuracy.

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25559
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 2:03 pm

I agree with Kingcoal. It's learning it's territory, which is bigger than you might think.

Trapping it won't be easy.

And assuming that it will be chased off and stay away is naïve. It will just get smarter how to avoid you as it searches for an opertuininty to snatch a meal.

A few times, I've caught sight of a Coyote that I'd been hunting previously on a friend's farm. He never showed up during hunting season. All I'd get to see was tracks in mud or snow. But, when out of season, I'd occasionally catch sight of him, far off on the edge of a hayfield, sitting and watching me from the brush line, while I was hunting hay field woodchucks. They are quite smart.

Around here many farmers with critter troubles use the "three S" method of critter control - Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup !

Paul

 
Qtown1835
Member
Posts: 705
Joined: Sat. Nov. 08, 2014 11:47 am
Location: Quakertown, PA
Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker '81 KA4 (online 1/16/17)
Coal Size/Type: WAS Lehigh Rice (TBD)
Other Heating: EFM SPK600

Post by Qtown1835 » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 2:42 pm

Cant speak to NY regs, but here in PA there is no closed season on Coyote or Coy dogs so the season is open year round. I agree, with some others, if you know someone who hunts them give that a shot first. Otherwise you just need to be ready if the opportunity presents itself again, but chances of that happening again are slim. Coyote are very quick to adapt to their surroundings, im sure he already has you patterned much more than you think.

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25559
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Oct. 16, 2017 3:12 pm

Coyotes are "protected" here in NYS, but with a hunting season of Oct 1st to March 25th, no bag limit. Not sure if coydogs are.

And to trap yotes legally, you need to take a special trapping course and buy a trapping license.

Gotta be sure it's a coyote, too. Wolves and domestic dogs are protected with no season, so it's illegal to trap, or kill them anytime.

Paul


Post Reply

Return to “Hobbies, Hunting, Fishing & Camping”