Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Roger2561 on January 31, 2017, 05:36:13 PM
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So this evening , around 6:00pm, I head outside to put wood in the OWB for the night. I turn on the lights to the back of the house, step outside and I'm serenaded by 4 or 5 coyotes perhaps no more than 100 feet for the house. Man, that gave me the willies. I believe it was fastest I've ever serviced the OWB; less than 5 minutes. Generally it takes 5 but no more than 10 minutes to service it. Roger
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Keep some hand grenades handy >:D. Dam things are everywhere, tried running one down on the snowmobile trail yesterday, was going to give him a "studded break job". He won.
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So this evening , around 6:00pm, I head outside to put wood in the OWB for the night. I turn on the lights to the back of the house, step outside and I'm serenaded by 4 or 5 coyotes perhaps no more than 100 feet for the house. Man, that gave me the willies. I believe it was fastest I've ever serviced the OWB; less than 5 minutes. Generally it takes 5 but no more than 10 minutes to service it. Roger
I have them to Roger never see them but I hear them they sound close
If I'd see them like you did I'd have the Willies too
Jack
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So this evening , around 6:00pm, I head outside to put wood in the OWB for the night. I turn on the lights to the back of the house, step outside and I'm serenaded by 4 or 5 coyotes perhaps no more than 100 feet for the house. Man, that gave me the willies. I believe it was fastest I've ever serviced the OWB; less than 5 minutes. Generally it takes 5 but no more than 10 minutes to service it. Roger
We live right across from 3600 acres that makes up Potato Creek State Park in Northern Indiana, some night you may hear as many as 3-5 different packs coming from all the compass points.
Coyotes are cowards, we’ve lost one calf over the years to coyotes, momma was stupid, baby was even stupider, they could call to one another but unless they seen one another they would walk away from each other, must have happened in the dead of night but baby walked away from momma. Momma got a trip to McDonalds. We usually leave the horns on one or two cows that we know came from overly protective momma’s, have only ever lost one calf. I’ve seen a few of those momma’s with horns really mess up a canadian geese or two that got too close to their calves in the spring.
Place a few straw bales in an open field, once the field mice find there way under the bales it will draw coyotes in then open season on em as a nuisance animal.
So thick around here my dogs don’t even pay attention to em anymore when they are raising hell in the middle of the night.
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I got myself a .17 hmr because of this issue. About 100 yards is the field edge from my house and they run the field edge quite a bit. I have to keep pushing them back or I'm afraid the wife's ankle biter won't come back inside after a bathroom break.
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We have a bunch of chickens and ducks and the coyotes and foxes are always looking for a quick meal. I put one of those wireless motion sensors near the coops so I know when something is lurking around. If you can open the door nice and quiet the Savage .17 Super mag does a nice tune on em. Have to say that they have gotten much more bold in the past few years , I've walked up pretty close to a couple of them who were determined to get what they were after.
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We have a bunch of chickens and ducks and the coyotes and foxes are always looking for a quick meal. I put one of those wireless motion sensors near the coops so I know when something is lurking around. If you can open the door nice and quiet the Savage .17 Super mag does a nice tune on em. Have to say that they have gotten much more bold in the past few years , I've walked up pretty close to a couple of them who were determined to get what they were after.
Big Al - That's what bothers me. They never used to be this close to the house. I do not have any livestock so I'm at a loss why they come so close to the house. I'm thinking of having a fire arm of some sort for the "just in case" scenario. I'm not an animal rights activists whatsoever, but I don't like killing things just for the sake of killing. Roger
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Coyote roundup was sponsored by an outdoor shop last week. I let a coule guys hunt on me. After trying different places all through the night, they come out mid day and drop two straight away. Finished 4th out of 30 teams.
They werent in my part of the state growing up. Now we have them everywhere. Mountain lion is in the area now, and bear are swimming the Ohio and roaming the Southern counties.
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Coyotes are canines and will explode in population if allowed to (no ACTIVE superior predator in the area). Bobcats are showing up in Indiana now so it is only a matter of time that they too will need population reduction management.
Although I never really wanted to predator hunt, I have noticed a nice upswing in my local population of rabbits, Eastern wild turkeys, chukkar, and even red-tailed fox (central Indiana). As such, I do go out and kill 5-10 coyotes per year with a very nice, inexpensive Tikka T3 Lite Stainless in .22-250 Remington (fantastic sub-1 MOA rifle for gun buffs out there :thumbup: ).
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Coyotes are canines and will explode in population if allowed to (no ACTIVE superior predator in the area). Bobcats are showing up in Indiana now so it is only a matter of time that they too will need population reduction management.
Although I never really wanted to predator hunt, I have noticed a nice upswing in my local population of rabbits, Eastern wild turkeys, chukkar, and even red-tailed fox (central Indiana). As such, I do go out and kill 5-10 coyotes per year with a very nice, inexpensive Tikka T3 Lite Stainless in .22-250 Remington (fantastic sub-1 MOA rifle for gun buffs out there :thumbup: ).
Yep you are right had rabbits all over farm several folks hunted,now nothing around. I find the only rabbits were around house I think for safety from coyotes,now yotes are around so I got me a stainless Ruger 243 with a scope as these 73-year old eyes just ain't what they use to be with a 30/30 with open sights. Now look-out yotes can pick them off at 200-300 yards,keeps my old eyes sharp.