A Guide To Smashing Coyotes In Your Yard
Climate has more to do with size than anything. For example the coyotes here in SW Utah are also very small because of the desert environment and not because of the prey size. The mule deer are bigger than any whitetail y’all got but the dogs are still small. A big dog around here is 30lbs… but the other end of the state at higher elevations and colder weather a big dog is like 40lbs. That’s why Canada has such big old yotes. Same reason a Canada lynx is much bigger than a big cat even though genetically they are almost identical.
Also a lot of the bigger “coyotes” we see around are hybridized with dogs or wolves..
I agree. Just saying, we have mule deer and the occasional elk, especially one of the places I hunt out western Kansas. The white tail deer here are big. The coyotes are big, the raccoons are big. LOL, the puma that wandered through a few years ago, supposedly there are none here until finally had to admit there are, laid under the swing set at the local elementary school and batted the swings around like a giant cat toy and then wandered off, he looked big enough to me.
Anyways, I am onboard with the OP, I would consider a PCP, .25 caliber pellet rifle, maybe a strong .22 with slugs and keep the range short and being selective with taken shots as minimum. Even with a PB (.17 HMR, .22 Magnum, .223, .22 Hornet, .44 Magnum) with body shots they often managed to get off aways. If shooting in what some call their backyards that could result in an animal dead on property not your own and that can be messy depending who and where.
Not sure that coyotes are considered a primary rabies vector, I need to study on that, but they can and do carry rabies.
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