I have killed 8 this year on our 80 acres and 3 of them had mange and looked pretty rough. I put a 20” 204 barrel on my ar and really like it. I use a thermal and judging exact distance is hard. The 204 flat trajectory helps a lot. And the accuracy and low recoil helps a lot too. I had a ba 1:7 18” barrel before. I like the 204 much better and I don’t miss as many now.
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In the late eighties, we shot many, many coyotes in Northern California that looked exactly like your yotes. We were killing coyotes on a ranch that was losing cows and calves to the coyotes. We killed a boatload.
We would set up in certain drainages with shotguns and buck-shot and just flock shoot the groups of mangy coyotes once they came in.
By the mid nineties, there were only a few coyotes around and they looked as healthy as a coyote can.
You sir, have a coyote problem.
We would set up in certain drainages with shotguns and buck-shot and just flock shoot the groups of mangy coyotes once they came in.
By the mid nineties, there were only a few coyotes around and they looked as healthy as a coyote can.
You sir, have a coyote problem.
My cows are calving right now so I have been spending a lot more time out watching. I have killed 8 since late January on our 80 acres. 5 of those had normal coat and look healthy. Cows are doing great. One had a baby last night.
Congradulations on your new herd member! I'm not going to act like I know anything about cows and herds and if Oklahoma were a little closer to Montana, I'd ask if I could help killing coyotes. I'ts been a long time since I've shot at coyotes.
I wish you the best of luck taking care of your coyote problem. I'm not sure when your Oklahoma coyotes pup but if it hasn't happened yet, soon, very soon. Use a sound like a siren and see if the pups will howl for you. Buy a couple pounds of tannerite, place it in the holes the pups are howling from, stand back a few feet and touch it off. It should save you from some of next years troubles.
I wish you the best of luck taking care of your coyote problem. I'm not sure when your Oklahoma coyotes pup but if it hasn't happened yet, soon, very soon. Use a sound like a siren and see if the pups will howl for you. Buy a couple pounds of tannerite, place it in the holes the pups are howling from, stand back a few feet and touch it off. It should save you from some of next years troubles.
I had the same thing in my part of Oklahoma the first week of March. Calves started dropping, and the damn coyotes started coming in from everywhere for the afterbirth. I killed 9 in a week. I still see one every once in a while, but I think I gave myself a couple month reprieve of having to go out daily/nightly. I typically kill somewhere between 20 - 40 per year on our place. In Sep of 2023 I killed 24 in one month alone.
No mange here though (yet).
I actually don't lose calves to coyotes here, despite how many yotes are around. They are always just here for the afterbirth and colostrum calf crap.
The packs of dogs out here though are the ones I have problems with.
No mange here though (yet).
I actually don't lose calves to coyotes here, despite how many yotes are around. They are always just here for the afterbirth and colostrum calf crap.
The packs of dogs out here though are the ones I have problems with.
i thought feral dogs and coyotes ran in the same nitch and actually interbred if the yotes didn't eat the newer to the feral life dogs. no personal experience,just wondering.
How many acres? We only have 80. I haven’t lost any calves to coyotes but I have lost 2 to the black buzzards a few years ago
Glencoe, Ok
Out here they run separately. There are several neighbors within a couple mile range that have somewhere between 5-10 dogs that just run loose. The problem is that they pack up and turn into 70-90lb coyotes. Add in that a ton of dogs get dumped out here every year by worthless individuals.
I've not lost a calf to a coyote to my knowledge. I've certainly seen yotes run deer here.
I have lost calves to dogs. I've seen dogs pack up on my calves before. I've seen dogs pack up and chase my cows before. And dogs definitely like to run deer around here too.
700 in Push Co.
Black buzzards are more of a problem than anything else. Why they are protected* is total BS. We typically don't mention much stuff about them. Although I think you can get a permit to kill a few now and hang them up. I guess some people think that would scare the others off, but it doesn't.
thanks. according to FWC feral cats are decimating song birds here in FL. i don't know from experience. could well be ie except my experience that FWC is often FOS.
^ Hopefully you have applied for a permit *wink*, otherwise I'd delete that statement man as you're better off legally shooting a prized buck 2 months out of season on the governor's lawn. That is why I didn't quote you.
Those coyotes can just get some winter lice and not actually the mange mites. Gotta dip them too I guess 
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