help me kill coyotes in W.Washington

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christy, start a new thread, with some info about your physical layout. rural area, edge of town, whatever. And, what guns or equipment do you have?

First, however, check with your game/fish agency about pertinent laws for pests and predators, insofar as hunting.

Art
 
My buddies used to drive around till they saw a yote in some farmers field, then go up to the door and tell them that there was a yote in their field attacking a cat, they would panic and beg them to shoot the yote for them. Cept one time, the missus said that they had better ask pa first, and that he was out in the parlor, so they walked out to the parlor and repeated the same story about the cat being attacked, farmer says "a kinda large black and white cat?" my buddy says "yep that's the one" farmer says "hell if you're gonna shoot anything, shoot the cat. The yote kills more mice" :D
 
I suggest using snares. They are a little tricky to learn, but I think you could find plenty of tutorials on the Internet. If you snare a house dog, it will think it is on the leash and not choke himself.
 
If you snare a house dog, it will think it is on the leash and not choke himself.
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I wouldn't bet on it. I've known house dogs that didn't do well at all on a leash. Snaring could result in somebody's pet hanging itself. No, I favor setting up with a rifle and being able to ID your target as in fact being a coyote. But if that's illegal in your area, I don't know what else to tell you.
 
Christy-
I'm sorry about your cat, but coyotes aren't evil- they're just highly efficient predators and survivors. One of the first things I learned as an outdoorsman is that we're not anything special to the natural world- if you live in it you adjust to how it works, not vice versa.

As far as coyote control, look at what attracts them to your area and change that. Shooting them isn't a long term solution- either they breed more rapidly or more drift in to take the place of the ones you shot. Try to make your area less attractive to them or teach the cats a different way to live. I've lived in a coyote-heavy area for years without losing a cat because mine stay reasonably close to the house and come in at night.
 
just highly efficient predators and survivors

. . . which have discovered a bountiful food supply in the form of domestic pets. IF shooting in your area is legal, use something not prone to ricochet (e.g., like a .223 with V-Max bullets). Lure the opportunist(s) in with "prey" sounds . . . having dealt with such critters fairly frequently, I discovered that "puppy yips" work quite well. I don't view yotes as "evil," but when they are in substantial numbers and plying their trade focused on pets, I view it as "new hunting access" and a "target-rich environment." If you can shoot safely there, PM me . . . I'd be glad to assist, schedule permitting.
 
One thing you have to remember is that coyotes are extremely smart. Whatever you decide on you will have to change your techniques after a while. You will have to vary where you call from, what you call with and so forth after they get wise to the scheme. And watch out as with many other forms of hunting it can become addicting to chase Wiley. Good luck on thinning out the pack.
 
There are a few cartridges that will work in this case, 22 hornet, 22 k-Hornet, 221 Fireball, 222rem, 223 rem.

I would get a few big chunks of meat and let them get a little old out of the fridge:barf: then put them out in a pile get you a good spot light and set up a shooting bench and shoot away from any houses. Just sit there and watch the bait pile. When you see one shoot him and add him to the bait pile.

I would go with a k-hornet or a reg hornet. 50 yards is a short distance and it would do the trick and not provide as much noise as the others I listed.

I have a friend over at Varmint Hunting International that sits in his house and watchs out over his bait pile has a shooting bench set up inside a window so he does not have to leave the heat or A/C to get him a yote. he does rather well too. The wife might complain a bit the first few times because of all the noise in the house.
 
Interesting thread, seems the more that the Tacoma/Seattle/Everett
areas expand east and developments or houses on
acreage move into the country more and more human/wildlife contacts
occur. King COunty goes east all the way to the top of The pass on I-90.

I grew up on a farm in E. Wash. - lots of targets err, wildgame as in jackrabbits, cottontails, rattlesnakes, coyotes, etc. I recall my Dad
putting out poisoned meat among the sheep we raised. especially during
lambing season. I still live in E. Wash. but now it's in the
rolling hills of dry land Palouse.

How about a T/C Contender, scoped in .223 or another
caliber of your choice? Can you say nightscope?
 
w.washington coyotes

I live in Pierce county and have lost several pets to these vicious varmints. I am only 3 miles from the city but it is very rural where I am and there exists an open field consisting of 20 acres where a pack of coyotes prowl in the valley below my house. Tonight, my son and I heard them attack another pet and listened helplessly as they tore it apart and it screamed for its life. I want every one of these disgusting creatures dead and have decided to go buy a gun and eliminate them myself if I can't find someone willing to kill them for me. How do I go about finding someone who hates them as much as I do?
 
Nature is harsh. No way around it. All the coyotes are doing is surviving. The problem is that in the process of surviving, they're killing animals we have attachments to (pets and livestock). What we have to do lies in managing the predators' numbers. That can be done without harboring hatred.
 
I also had a cat eaten by a coyote....50 yards from the house. The mojo bunny and a distress call works wonders. An old timer told me to put meat on a large treble hook and hang it with piano wire about 4 feet off the ground. when the coyote bites, they are hung with their front legs up. then you come along and pop them with a .22

along with the high likelihood of that being illegal, I didn't want to catch anyone's dog, so I use the decoy and distress call setup.

Don't get too crazed about a dedicated varmint rifle, any deer rifle will work well if you aren't particularly worried about pelt damage.
 
A neighbor asked me the other day if I had seen all the "missing cat" signs up in our area lately. Seems there were 3 or more cats gone missing, and he and his friends (the owners, mostly) were worried that some kids had taken them and tortured them to death.

Well, no, I haven't seen the signs up on the light poles and such, but I have seen a couple of fresh-ish cat heads in the coyote's dining room over yonder, where I sometimes run my dog. Described the remains of fur to him, and he said, "Well, that's two of the missing cats. Beats the kids torturing them to death, at least."
 
here's a blurb from the WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/living/coyotes.htm#problems

Legal Status

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife does not classify coyotes as game animals, but a state license is required to hunt or trap them (RCW 77.32.010). The owner, the owner's immediate family, employee, or a tenant of real property may kill or trap a coyote on that property if it is damaging crops or domestic animals (RCW 77.36.030). A license is not required in such cases. Check with your county and/or local jurisdiction for local restrictions. Except for bona fide public or private zoological parks, persons and entities are prohibited from importing a coyote into Washington State without a permit from the Department of Agriculture and written permission from the Department of Health. Persons and entities are also prohibited from acquiring, selling, bartering, exchanging, giving, purchasing, or trapping a coyote for a pet or export (WAC 246-100-191).

i have a bunch of them around my house too. i bought some 64 gr softpoints for the AR and keep a magazine of them loaded in case they become a threat but otherwise, i just let them be.

Bobby
 
yeah, I know what it is like to lose a favorite pet to coyotes- but ya know, they are not evil in the sense that a human can be evil, they are just doing what they do to eat, same as we do. I will kill a pest when nessesary but take no joy from it.
This area, as old dog will attest, is getting more and more built up. I no longer have a safe field of fire for a rifle. A shotgun might be ok, those heavy shot loads sound good, what sort of choke is required for a 75 yd shot? Will a cylinder bore 20" 12 gauge do ok?
 
More on coyotes

A lot of good information on this site! Baiting a poison site is fraught with issues of killing beneficial wild life or pets. Recently a man in TX? earned jail time for the inadvertent killing of a Bald Eagle from poisoned meat set out for coyotes. In days gone past Sheep herders used to use a small cyanide gas cylinder that would go off in the coyote's face from a baited site. You can imagine how this would be a very indiscriminate way of killing. I also read how sheep herders add a couple of Llamas to the herd and they will readily attack a coyote and they stay close to the sheep as they tend to bond with them.

Thanks for everyone's thoughtful posts. Good reading.
 
I also read how sheep herders add a couple of Llamas to the herd and they will readily attack a coyote and they stay close to the sheep as they tend to bond with them.
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In Georgia and Alabama, in a good many areas, anyone with cows, sheep, whatever... they'll add a donkey or burro to their herd for the same reason. There's a cattle farm right up the road here... a lot of their pasture is right there in sight of the highway and they have five or six donkey in with their cows.
 
i need to know how to get coyotes out of the thick bush-my dog was just attacked

we have never had coyotes in this area before(northwest ontario)or they are rare.

i heard my dog yelping for help when i was out for a walk with her, i ran to her,as fast as i could but by the time i got close to her she bolted out of the bush towards me with a coyote hot on her heels-i was no more than ten feet away from the coyote when i yelled and waved my arms at it and it ran back into the bush.
She is a chesapeake but she is only 10 months old and inexperienced(she got some today though)

Can a good dog hold it's own against a coyote?
I cannot find any cuts or gashes in her but the way she was yelping i would say,at the very least got nipped a few times


i found this site when i googled"how to kill a coyote"

i can shoot any kind of hunting rifle here but a .17 bolt with a sweet 17 scope should do it.
i just talked to my nieghbor he says there are 5 coyotes in the bunch

is it hard to find their den?

if i did find the den,would it be more apropriate to use a shotgun?

i wanna get them all-Rynx is a young dog and she is like part of my family-

I ain't gonna lose her,if i can help it
 
A good sized dog should be able to hold it's own against coyotes. A friend of mine's boxer killed 2 coyotes in one night. I don't leave my beagle in the yard alone at night. She's 11 and not as able as she used to be.

My male boxer ran off a bobcat. He did have some good sized claw marks on his backside. My neighbor saw the cat on his back porch trying to get to his 5 month old pitbull mix puppy.

Don't leave dog food out after dark.
 
Can a good dog hold it's own against a coyote?
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No.
Raised on a farm in south-eastern Kansas and coyotes killing dogs was always a problem.

We never had any fighting breeds, more like cattle dogs and mutts.
However, we lost several large sheppard mix dogs to coyotes.

They always got thier throat slashed, and I always assumed a pack would gang up on them until one could get a shot at the throat and kill them.

I would say the average pet wouldn't stand a chance unless it was bred to fight, and had fighting experiance.

rc
 
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