Coyotes - I need advice
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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???
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Got any friends that like to hunt ?coalnewbie wrote: ↑Sun. Oct. 15, 2017 6:22 pmCoyotes, 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???
Paul
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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
And the coydogs can be even bigger.
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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.
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Not big into killin just for the sake of it. If he's being a bother, then YES.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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
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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.
I have never seen a mark 19 but judging from the bulk of the Mark 3 it is probably too heavy to achieve accuracy.
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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 !
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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
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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.
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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.
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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