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I have had a couple of coyotes move back onto my place. They were gone all summer. The male does a lot of yelping. But even though I am miles from the local town, they have high hopes and I am still within the city limits. The local police frown on the discharge of firearms in the city limits.
I have a GMC 4X4 ranch truck that is always outside. One of the coyotes seems to think that it is a good place to live and has been crawling up into the engine compartment. I did not know what type of animal it was, so I put some sticky traps in the engine compartment and they were loaded with coyote hair the next day. I am sure that Wiley Coyote did not like having those gooey rodent traps stuck to his fur, but he got loose from them. Yesterday, I used a fence charger to electrify the truck. I expect that he will get the message the next time he crawls under the truck.
I looped the fence charger to the tow hooks on the front of the truck so that I can easily see the electrical wire and not touch it myself. I have left a hose dripping under the front of the truck to make the soil nice and moist. Any other suggestions??
I imagine that I would not have a problem with the police if I used an air gun or crossbow on the varmits, but they don't make it easy to get that close.
For those of you without shooting restrictions, Ruger makes a very nice heavy hammer forged barrel 10/22 with a laminated stock that is worth the money.
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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.
Best of luck.
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Scott, I thought I was the only one who is barred from washing clothes and dishes!  ! Now I don't feel so bad.
A little Ruger stainless Mini-14 Ranch Rifle might be the ideal tool for your needs. Pretty small, the clip makes it quick and easy to load up fast, (as well as keep it safe from children with clip removed), and is pretty accurate.
The coyotes are starting to increase around here as well. They are not so bold as to come around the house yet though. The dern things are so crafty and shy that it is rare to get close enough for a good shot. It is when they start hunting in groups that worries me. Anything is fair game with them (pets included) if they think they can take it.
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"Scott, I thought I was the only one who is barred from washing clothes and dishes! ! Now I don't feel so bad"
Mixing a red article of clothing in with the whites will get yuo a lifetime excusal  Ooops
MURF
Yer' a madman... The farmer I help uses a simialr concoction set to fire every 15 minutes to keep the birds out of the corn fiels. He set it up and I didn't know. The next time I went there I was riding the tracot near the woods and I thought I was under attack! I thought someone was hunting with a 50 cal... that succker is LOUD.
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Murf, we must have posted at the same time. I like your idea with the propane better! Would be nice if this method worked with care thieves! Only thing is around more populated areas, you'd have to be really careful about kids messing with the trap and getting injured. I could see how that contraption could scare the living daylights out of you! ! You have a devious mind Murf! 
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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.....
Best of luck.
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It might be interesting to put a camera on the same trigger to see how high Wiley can fly.
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Murf and AC5ZO,
You two guys together would be an unbeatable combination on Monster Garage, and a pest control business, not to mention Real TV & Amercia's Funniest Video's!!!!! !
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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...
Best of luck.
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As much as I like the blast cannon idea I just can't get past the idea of watching pieces of the neighborhood dogs go flying across the pasture I need something a bit more surgical.
It's time to buy a good .22 rifle. The Ruger 10/22 and Mini-14 sound like maybe they'd be appropriate - any idea on the going price for those rifles might be?
A few weeks ago there was some discussion here about using CB caps - would those take a Coyote? And, don't laugh, would it be feasible to shoot CD caps out the window when the wife is at work? I have good coyote opportunities at least weekly but those wily bastards always take off before I can get out the door.
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