Last Friday I got home a little later than normal and a coyote ran out of my back yard. Apparently the wifes dog is/was in heat. Well my border colie is old, but it looked like she whipped on him good since there was yote fur everywhere in the back yard. I ran inside, grab the 223, and run out past the barn in the direction the dog ran. I have an open farm field that he would have to cross that is about 800yds of fun. Get out there and no dog. WTH?? He wasn't booking it, just trotting off last I saw him. So I climbed on top of the hay stack thinking he might be hurt and laying down in the field. Low and behold the little bugger is laying on the far side of the stack!! I tossed the gun up and he bolted, right around the end of the hay stack. So I charge over to that side thinking he is making a break for the vineyard (40yds in the other direction from the farm field), but nope he is still stuck to the side of the hay stack and rounds the far side as I try to line up a shot. We did that one more time before I bailed off the stack and ran in the opposite direction thinking I would catch him, but when I rounded the corner all I saw was his tail disappearing into the barn. ****!!! I have 3 new born calves and their heifer mothers in there (first calf heifers are a bit crazy so I keep them close by to watch over them), sounds like Animal Farm's version of WW3 in there. Fat, out of shape, and out of breath, it takes me a second to get there. That dog was getting his tail handed to him on a silver platter by 2 of the 3 1000lbs heifers, the 3rd was laying down watching everything (like I said, they get a little weird), I cant line up a shot without risking a cow, and it looks like they are going to take care of things for me anyway, so I just hung out to watch. Well yote caught a lucky kick that tossed him through the manger, which got him away from the cattle and out of my sight. So I run around to the other side of the barn (I wasn't about to get in the them killer cows at that point!!) to go finish the sack of jello that I thought would be laying there, low and behold he is mach 9 working his way to lightspeed heading for the brush, almost 400yds out in the farm field. I winged 4 or 5 after him, but after all the running around I couldn't hit him to save my life. Ill catch him later, they cant resist coming into harass my dogs.
I need to pony up and get a FoxPro or other good call and start a serious eradication program, but damn, those things are pricy!!
I need to pony up and get a FoxPro or other good call and start a serious eradication program, but damn, those things are pricy!!