Coyotes and cat food!

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Pete B

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A friend of mine where I hunt told me the coyotes are coming up to the house to picking on his dog. Four or five at a time. Well his property has been called hard and with all the frozen snow getting into a stand under a full moon is almost impossible. So last night I dug out my old JS baby cottontail tape. I decided to put it out in the field across from his front porch and hide behind the retaining wall on the porch. Well I got no response after an hour. So tonight I was bored and thought why not give my porch idea another shot. Here is where it gets interesting. On my way out of the house I was feeding my cat a can of food. The kind where all the animals even the dog can't get enough of. So I took two cans with me on my way out. When I got to his house the dog was in the field across the street barking at me so I thought that dog is a pain in the ass. After the dog took off after something into the next county I though here goes. I decide to crack the cans open at his mail box and chuck them as hard as I could to spread that smelly stuff. I retreated to the porch and just for kicks blew 5 hard blows on the Scerry AP-6 even though I was on the porch. Ten seconds later I had a coyote come from less than two-hundred from across the road. Well as my eyes are glued on him I look over and there is a huge coyote standing 15 yards in front of me sniffing the road were I spilled the cat food as I opened it. As I slowwwly swing around for a shot he starts to get nervous and trotts. The harder I tried to swing with him the farther and faster he ran. I sat it out for another hour cursing myself for leaving the scope on nine power after IDing the dog at 500 yards. Had I had it on 3 that trotting swing would have been his demise at such a close range. Oh well sure was fun to watch him sniffin out that cat food. It would have made a good story had I got him. Cat food! Who would have ever thought.
 
One of the farmers land that i hunt on has had them in his shed eating out of the cats bowl.
he couldnt figure out why his cats were so hungry.
then he caught them in there one day.
 
A friend of mine fed his cats dried cat food, left it out all of the time. Skunks started coming in, he got the hairbrain idea of using his 45/70 TC. He got the skunk and the cat bowl all with one shot. I'm surprised he hit the skunk, he would have missed most of the time and hit the bowl.

Tom
 
I prefer to use plain ole' cats as coyote food! Tastes like chicken according to ALF! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 


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