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Originally Posted by pwd72s
I spent my 15th summer on a cattle ranch in Northen Cal...near a town called Adin.
The owner had a dog that loved killing coyotes...a Russian Wolfhound and Greyhound mix. Coyote spotted, he'd jump from the back of a moving jeep in order to catch one...it was amazing to watch the distance between this dog and a Coyote shrink. The dog would bowl the coyote over with contact, go for the throat, then 2 shakes of his head, it would be all over.
My single shot .22 took a few coyotes that summer. Don't think I was ever stalked by one. In cattle country, Coyotes have a fear of man...for good reason.
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Single shot .22, during your 15th summer? Didn't think the self-contained metalic cartridge went back that far...
One of my old duck hunting buddies had a big old black Lab that loved to kill coyotes as well. When he was young, he had the legs to run one down pretty easily. Amazing how fast a 90 pound Lab can take apart a 25 pound coyote. He was a big, lovable lug of a couch potato/duck fetcher other than that. Just amazing what he would turn into at the mere whiff of a yodel dog, though. Friendly as could be with other dogs.