30-06 with night scope should alleviate your problem.

 

I would have cooked it. What could go wrong?

 

Coyotes gotta eat too. Personally, I'm rather pleased to see them making a comeback.

 

 

When they first showed up here it was kind of creepy and they made off with a lot of people's pet kitties that were free roaming. I never approved of free roaming cats due to the killing of so many other critters by the cats but at the same time, the coyotes were a little scary. Now that they seem to have taken a solid hold, I've grown less frightened of them. I don't want to invite them to hang out at my house so I never put any kind of food outside. I think they're here to stay at least for the time being. I grow weary of the good ole boys' thinking that if something inconveniences them (ie they have to keep their cats inside), they just kill it.

 

I agree with your take on it, Val.

 

My town has a prohibition against the discharge of firearms, so I would not shoot a coyote that was near my house. That prohibition is about the only reason I would not do it. If they have to come into my yard to make their "comeback" then they have come too far. Just drive down any interstate and you will find miles and miles of undeveloped land where the woodland creatures can all kill each other without bothering us. In fact, over 90% of the US is undeveloped:

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-...ral-open-space

They come to your neighborhood because it is just easier pickings.

 

With that being said I live next to a protected undeveloped state forest. The forest surrounds our little 'hood and the 'hood next to us. Both of our very small developments front on a marsh and both of our developments were somehow carved out of the State forest. The coyotes apparently live in the forest and forage here for easy pickins'. I have discovered that rural South Carolina is not the nation's brain trust and also that wealth does not necessarily come to those who are possessed of high intelligence. Ie, the idiots who occupy many of the houses (some of which are very expensive houses occupied by the drivers of nice BMWs and other high-end luxury vehicles) nearby put food outside for their kitties and then want to kill the raccoons, coyotes and other critters that gobble up not only the kitty food but the kitties as well. These same idiots occasionally have been known to throw leftovers out in the bushes/trees. I have an opinion about this, but it is better not stated.

 

^ Sorry for laughing but I loved your description of your hood.

 

Turkey is a funny one for me. . . per pound, it's usually cheap, but you have to buy at least 12 lbs. of it (or more) for the whole bird (way too much for Joy and I).

Either way, the cost of the bird is usually less than my co-pay to the emergency room plus whatever exciting drugs I might have to buy from the pharmacy, so I'd throw it out.