Cdog911
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posted October 28, 2008 06:50 PM
Seem to be having a run on old male coyotes in need of dental work. Friday night, we were working a nuisance complaint behind a hog farm and I brought in this mangy old male at a slow, steady walk over about 250-300 yards. He could have used a Higgins makeover.
Then tonight, I made a return trip to the little town where I grew up to check on a brazen old coyote that was taking a cat a day from one of my landowners' little homeplace. This coyote has appeared 7 of the last 10 days when it struts right past a big window that looks out on their yard from their kitchen and dining area. I guess he just walks past and gives Jerry, the owner, the stink eye as he passes. Jerry wants him dead because his mousers are getting very few and far between. I set up there yesterday with my back to Main Street and barely ten feet outside the city limits, a 12 gauge in my lap, and he didn't show. I know this group to travel the south part of town between timbers at the SE and SW corners of town, crossing through a large storage yard owned by a company that rebuilds electrical transformers and reclosers (Tim might know them... Solomon Corporation). Jerry's boys were putting up deer stands in his timber this a.m. and afternoon, so I went to the other end and had this guy all but run over me coming to the call. Finally got him stopped at 25 yards - so close he was fuzzy in the scope. LOL He was decent - 35#, and showed a lot of wear and tear on those front teeth. These types of coyotes are, to me, trophies, as it's likely you've bested a coyote that's been there, done that, drank the Kool-Aid and has the T-shirt. Sadly, he was mangy on the hips and in the armpits. But, I should get a chance to actually hunt for fun this weekend and am looking forward to that. Whether or not this is old stink eye is a mystry since Jerry went into the hospital today and wasn't home when I stopped to get his ID LOL, but I guess we'll find out if there's a coyote in their yard in the morning.
Anyway, Higgins has some serious work to do up here if these coyotes are gonna get to looking any better.
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