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Bold Coyote
I only tried shooting out a window once, unfortunately I HIT what I was aiming for...
I was in the bedroom (upstairs rear) when my dogs went crazy, my good lady was making breakfast & coffee in the kitchen (downstairs front), I went to the window and saw that I had nabbed a skunk in a live trap I had set to catch the racoon who raids my bird-feeders. Thinking (and I use the term loosely) I would be sprayed approaching the little guy, I opted for the 12ga. tranquilizer. Bad move, very bad move, before I could get it and I back in the window and crank it shut my wife was already gagging from the smell, not to mention the broken plates.
Tip o' the week, NEVER fire a shotgun in the house without first warning everyone, ESPECIALLY someone who ISN'T a morning person and who hasn't yet had a first coffee, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
I have since eased my way back upo to plinking red squirrels (same offence, raiding bird feeders) with an air rifle out the office window, but nothing that burns powder.
Most of the coyotes in our neighbourhood fall victim to the donkey up the road, the sheep he guards are an atractive target to the coyotes who rarely make it back out of the pasture alive, let alone fed.
Best of luck.
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I have seen people use 'blast cannons' very successfully on coyotes.
There is a recent return to sheep farming around my cottage due to the combination of disgustingly low beef prices and the poor terrain which doesn't support anything but grazing.
Basically they are pieces of heavy steel pipe, 9" to 18" in diameter and 12" to 24" long, they are either dug into the ground or into a small raised platform of wood. A plate of steel is welded over end and a small hose is run into the bottom, the open end facing up, the open end is usually covered by heavy steel mesh. The hose is connected to a surplus propane regulator (usually off a junked BBQ) and a 20 lb. tank. There is a spark plug & coil connected to a contact switch which is activated when something steps onto the top screen. The trap is then baited with road-kill or something recently shot, sometimes the last victim is butchered for bait.
The way it works is the propane is left just slightly open, being heavier than air it just fills the pipe, when Wiley E. Coyote comes along for a free meal he can't smell the human scent for the rotten egg gas in the propane. The bait is an easy meal and ususally irresistable, when he steps on the screen cover, which is always then directly beneath his head, the proane exlpodes, usually killing him nearly instantly. The beauty of it is, unless the victim happens to fall directly on the trigger, it is self-resetting. Either way the bang alerts the owner to check the trap.
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That's nothing, you should see my methods for ice fishing, gopher / ground hog control, and theft deterrance ....
My wife says I have too much free time on my hands, I tell her I'm just getting more ..... creative ...
By the way, if anyone has a problem with seagulls.....
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It's funny you mention Monster Garage, our family does a lot of work with draft horses, mostly in situations where mechanised logging causes too much damage.
I am working on a 'vehicle' for a friend of the family who does tree cutting and is in the firewood business also. He was using a bobcat since he could use it to carry wood and also to power a splitter, but it caused too much damage to the ground, especially in heavily treed areas where there isn't much in the way of ground cover to stop the machine from chewing up the ground.
I have designed an articulated 'buggy' which runs on 4 small tracks, two on each end, the center pivots and rolls allowing it to bend and twist to follow the earth. The entire drive-train is that out of a skid-steer loader, a 45hp Kubota diesel directly coupled to abig hydraulic pump which in turn runs a hydraulic motor at each end. The wood is carried in log form in a U-shaped swivelling steel bracket at each end. The whole thing is hydrostatic-driven and steered, with the engine at one end, and the stand-up operators station at the other end. A standing operator means they can see over the load and therefore easily run the machine in either direction negating the need to turn around to run back and forth between cutting place and loading place. It has a self-contained hydraulic boom so that it can load and unload itself, or load a truck or firewood processor directly if need be. The entire machine was designed to be under 6' in width and just under 16' in length so as to be manueverable and easily transportable.
After the prototype is up & running the next project is to make a one peice affair which will cut & split the wood in one single step.
Wacky ideas are my specialty...
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Hmmmm, selective & surgical, huh?
How about a plexi-glass sided box-trap, substitue the propane hose for a CO2 line and an electric gas release valve, with an electric door release mechanism controlled by a radio controlled airplane or car type transmitter, receiver & servos.
When the trap gets something you look out the window and determine the catch o' the day is, if it's the Fido from dowwn the road, you flip the 'get out of jail free' switch, if it's Wiley, he gets the nitey-nite switch.
Of course a steel mesh floor and an arc welder would work too, but it might raise a few eye brows, and smell a bit...
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Dave, I guess after 9/11 it's pretty tough to find C4 down there, so I guess I'll have to bring my own with me....
Oh, wait a minute, you were meaning the 4 legged variety right?
The others are best lured in with a Rolex ....
 MAO.....the wife doesn't understand why tractors have become so funny recently..... thankfully.
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My name is Murphy, you may have heard of our law ....
If I tried going somewhere with a load of C4 you would most likely see me in the northern sky, a faint glow and a low rumble.......
But I bet I'd take a few beavers or coyotes out too....
Laughter IS the best medicine.....
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