I live in NKY and used to have a bunch of turkey's. Two years ago when we had a snow fall I walked my farm. I followed some coyote tracks for a while. I got to a thicket and there were turkey feathers and "leftovers" and there were 3 sets of coyote tracks coming from different directions into the turkey spot. So, yes, I think the coyote's have figured out how to catch them and will keep the population down.

Yep, I just do a really tight kissing/high pitch sound. Sounds like a rodent and they perk right up to it. Then they eat lead. It's a beautiful thing.

:lol: This description sounds like one of those old Roadrunner cartoons! Was it a "Beep Beep", ending with some TMT?

What did you shoot the coyotes with? If it was turkey season I assume you had a shotgun with birdshot. Can't see birdshot killing a coyote or did you have a side arm?

Turkey loads are anything but birdshot. And they do just fine on a coyote.

I live in NKY and used to have a bunch of turkey's. Two years ago when we had a snow fall I walked my farm. I followed some coyote tracks for a while. I got to a thicket and there were turkey feathers and "leftovers" and there were 3 sets of coyote tracks coming from different directions into the turkey spot. So, yes, I think the coyote's have figured out how to catch them and will keep the population down.

Turkeys and coyotes have been around each other for a long time. They didn't just now figure out how to hunt turkeys. If the opportunity presents itself they will kill a turkey however they aren't going out looking for them any more then they are anything else.

What did you shoot the coyotes with? If it was turkey season I assume you had a shotgun with birdshot. Can't see birdshot killing a coyote or did you have a side arm?

I bird hunt with 7 1/2 shot, unless we are pheasant hunting and I use 6's. However, I turkey hunt with 5's in a pattern that is no larger than a softball at 15 yds through my turkey choke. And I use heavy shot, not lead. This past season I killed 2 like I stated. Smoked both of them and one didn't flinch, died immediately. The first one I shot was dead in her grill however, and she flopped like it was an exorcism.

Turkey loads are anything but birdshot. And they do just fine on a coyote.

 

 

I guess you can see how much this city boy hunts.

 

I would like to try hunting but don't know the first thing about it beyond aim at the animal and pull the trigger. Oh, and make sure you have the right type of hunting license or the game warden will not be your friend. That and I wouldn't hunt anything unless I was going to eat it and I wouldn't know where to start when it comes to cleaning game. Have fillet'ed numerous bluegill and crappie and a few catfish but not land or air based animals. It is probably not very hard, just have to know the in's and out's of it.

I bird hunt with 7 1/2 shot, unless we are pheasant hunting and I use 6's. However, I turkey hunt with 5's in a pattern that is no larger than a softball at 15 yds through my turkey choke. And I use heavy shot, not lead. This past season I killed 2 like I stated. Smoked both of them and one didn't flinch, died immediately. The first one I shot was dead in her grill however, and she flopped like it was an exorcism.

 

 

Once again I am showing my ignorance. I would not have thought 6 would have been large/heavy enough to pierce through the hide/muscle/etc. to reach the internal organs of a coyote. My assumption is that you would have to use a few sizes larger to kill an animal the size of a coyote. Yes I know what happens when you assume.

 

So if 6 is large enough to kill a coyote, what are larger loads such as 4 or 2 used to hunt with?

Once again I am showing my ignorance. I would not have thought 6 would have been large/heavy enough to pierce through the hide/muscle/etc. to reach the internal organs of a coyote. My assumption is that you would have to use a few sizes larger to kill an animal the size of a coyote. Yes I know what happens when you assume.

 

So if 6 is large enough to kill a coyote, what are larger loads such as 4 or 2 used to hunt with?

It's not as simple as that. Shot size is just one factor. Gauge, oz of shot, shell length are all factors in what can be used. For example, you can buy predator loads ranging from size 6 all the way down to 00. Water fowl loads range from 4 down to 1 or bigger.

We use 2's and 4's for ducks (steel shot obviously) but to be quite honest, I think as close as the first coyote was I think 9's would have killed her. The second one I hit in the side behind the shoulder and it was lethal immediately. Again, a choke tube on a turkey gun keeps the pattern very tight. And heavyweight shot is more dense and keeps it's shape like steel whereas lead flattens out on impact often.

There is coyotes in Edgewood. I have seen some foxes around my house in Independence. I see turkeys all over the place even on here.

There is coyotes in Edgewood. I have seen some foxes around my house in Independence. I see turkeys all over the place even on here.

 

Any Camels?

There is coyotes in Edgewood. I have seen some foxes around my house in Independence. I see turkeys all over the place even on here.

 

Any Camels?

Nope. I killed 2 the same day in turkey season. 2 females. Called them both in with the "kiss of death". Waxed em both at about 15 and 20 yards.

 

Why???

Population control

Population control

 

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