New predator gun.... need help.

[ivan3]

What is the ratio of smaller preds close-in (to include pithing them in traps) to larger preds further out? Primarily wooded area (where firing lanes need to be brush cut through the understory and vining clutter), or open ground with clear fields of fire?

.22mag is probably adequate but, on the other hand, I've never had a problem out to a hundred yards, using an old Remington Nylon 66 loaded with Remington Yellow Jackets or Vipers (hyper velocity .22LR). We have a .223 Ranch Rifle, but it hasn't seen much use.

The reason I keep using the Nylon (got in `82) is that it only weighs 4.5lb. loaded and puts 15 rounds downrange in a little under 5 seconds (no problem holding point). A lightweight, slightly underpowered weapon has a wider utility (opossum in the coop for instance).

At this location, anything `big' (like ungulate rats) that shows up and it is pretty much just a walk out back with an aluminum baseball bat... (do they look worried?)

 

[gsim]

You can use .22 ammo with birdshot in place of the slug, but then you would defeat the purpose of an over & under. I would not shoot a slug around here, and I have 15 acres.

 

[budkingston]

The problem with Coyotes is that they generally attack in a flash and your dog/chickens/cats, et al are lucky if they can get away at the last minute and not be run down before they make it into the house. If you reach fro a firearm, they are out of small rifle range before you can get a safe shot.

For their ridance, you need to be proactive and more crafty than they are. Go to the gun/hunting store and buy a Jack Stewart coyote call cassette tape. Put it in your ghetto blaster, and call them in (check local laws, some states this isn't legal). You can even bait them a few times so they come easily. On the final day, while they are enjoying the chicken that died from Marek's, wait from your roof with a 12ga, loaded with buckshot. You should be able to take out 3 before they realized what is going on. They are very, very smart and the survivors generally will have been trained to NOT come this way again.

IMHO, the BEST shotgun (affordable anyway) for a woman is the Remington 1100 LT. It is an automatic and the cycling of the action absorbs a lot of recoil. I taught my 8 year old son (below average ht & wt) how to hunt doves with it! Cheaper still is a Turkish shotgun, Escort 20LT that I also bought to carry through the woods. I use these to teach novice shooters to not fear shotgun recoil and in no time at all, they are on targets.

 

[wilds of pa]

For yotes in our area they are very shy and hate to come out across a open pastures esp in day light hours, they normally hang back a bit and wait for the pray to come much closer to them..

fox Ive never seen any here in the day time, of course most preds in our area and county are kept pretty much under control by all of us Lil and big farmers here..by way of traps and or guns..

Ive taken a few raccoons moving late in the morning with the AR and a few with a semi auto Remington 48 sportsman..

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