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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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It might be interesting to put a camera on the same trigger to see how high Wiley can fly.
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Ken, you can shoot a .338 Mag out the window when the wife is at work. It is best to open the window first, however. CB caps are too small for a coyote. You need a full power .22LR at the minimum. The Ruger Mini 14 is a .223 and is MUCH louder than a .22LR like the Ruger 10/22.
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You need a little more voltage than you normally get out of an arc welder (70 V) My electrified truck has 400 VAC on the body right now, but the current is limited to make it only painful and not lethal to an animial the size of a coyote, dog or me. A fence charger or a bug zapper will genuinely ruin Wiley's day and won't kill any neighbors, neighbors' pets, or you.
If you are out for blood, then get a transformer from a neon sign and light him up.
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Chief is right about the specials. Sporting goods places like Big 5 also have specials like that. You can often find basic .22 rifles for around $70. Don't forget about a used gun either. My favorite .22 is a pump action Remington that is older than I am.
Automatic, lever action, pump, bolt action will all work for varmit control.
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If you try crossing the border with a load of C4, I am going to be seeing you on FoxNews.
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Murphy's law is not widely taught in the schools, but most every engineer gets practical experience with it in his first job. This generally comes after a bold statement like, "What could possibly go wrong!" or "How bad could it really be!"
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Attaching the electric fence charger to the pickup truck when I am not using it (of course) has worked to keep the coyote out of the engine compartment. It has been well over a week and I have not had the problem again.
We raised German Shepards on the farm and we had an electric wire as the top wire of the dog pen. It was over five feet high, but some of the dogs could climb/jump the fence. They only hit the wire once and never tried again. Hopefully Willey Coyote has some of the same genetic programming and I won't need to keep the truck "wired" indefinitely.
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