killing a coyote

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I've got a dilemma..There's a coyote roaming around my backyard, and the fairway behind my house...
actually there's more than 1, we hear several almost every night.
We've seen him 4 days in a row...stalking around about a 5-6 house stretch, that has about 6-7 dogs between us. The dogs range in size from pugs to Labs...

Yesterday he was sittiing on the property line between mine and my neighbors house, when my wife was backing out of the driveway to drop my daughter off a preschool. She said he just sat and starred at her, as she backed out and drove off.

She called our local police dep't and there not going to do anything..They recommended a couple of private agencies that could trap them.

About 15 minutes ago, he strolled down the carpath, and stopped at every house that has a dog, and watched for a couple of seconds then trotted off. He was literally 30 yards from my back door. I went to get a gun to shoot him, but my wife didn't want me to in front of the kids.

So tomorrow, she's taking them out for the morning and I'm setting up a kill zone.

I'm throwing some chicken out in a low area behind the tee boxes and gonna set up in the second story of my kids play system, so I'm shooting down on him, and taking him out...

I'm debating on the weapon, the choices..

12ga
20ga
.22LR

I'm leaning towards the .22LR since it's quieter..

Thoughts?
 
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Quiet is best given it is a golf course. Don't be screwing up my golf game with your yote hunting!
 
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with a .22, you better go for the head. Take some rat poison pellets and push them into chicken (just in case you miss).
 
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yea, I don't have to worry about screwing up anyone's game, the course has been closed for about 3 months..
 
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Typically when huntin coyotes i use a 243 or an 17. If its close distance knock his ass of with a shotgun. If you have a 4-10 that would be ideal
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
Quiet is best given it is a golf course. Don't be screwing up my golf game with your yote hunting!
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Alum, what's up with those 2 courses being built near you? are they ever gonna finish them? I fly over there quite a bit, looks like no one working.
 
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If you're going to do it, .22. Unless you have a .223. Anyway, more accurate and less mess for you to pick up.
 
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AirVol said:
with a .22, you better go for the head. Take some rat poison pellets and push them into chicken (just in case you miss).
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I don't think I'll miss, I'm a pretty good shot..

golfballs03 said:
can you even get close enough to it to shoot w a shotgun?
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absolutely he just strolled down the cart path about 15 feet away from my backyard and the kids play house/swing set,
it's just the shotgun is so load..
while there's no houses behind me the houses are pretty close, so a shotgun going off, is gonna sound like a cannon with the sound echoing off mine and my neighbors house
 
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rockyvols said:
Typically when huntin coyotes i use a 243 or an 17. If its close distance knock his ass of with a shotgun. If you have a 4-10 that would be ideal
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no 4-10, but I did just throw out to the wife that I should buy a .22-250 or .223..she veto'd that
 
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AirVol said:
Alum, what's up with those 2 courses being built near you? are they ever gonna finish them? I fly over there quite a bit, looks like no one working.
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Where you talking about? I'm not aware of a golf course being built near Arlington. They are building a new road near I-40.
 
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Sounds risky to me. You have already notified the police and if a neighbor happens to call them........
 
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rockyvols said:
Bow an option?
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I thought about that first thing, but that's a bad idea imo. Even a perfect kill shot and he is gonna run at least 20-30 yards.....that could draw unwanted attention.

Sticky situation. I would be afraid to use a shot gun because of the noise and equally afraid to use a low caliber rifle with the fear of possible miss or ricochet.

IDK.
 
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vol_in_il said:
no, there's no fences allowed..all of us have the in-ground invisible fence...so that keeps thr dogs in, but not the coyote out
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They have a bounty for them in Tennessee.
I've never seen it, but I'm told the most effective way is to hook them.

In your situation, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have the entire neighborhood seeing coyotes hanging from trees.
 
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