The funny thing, we went out there every morning very early for a while. We only saw one from about 500 yards running flat out. He must have spotted us or smelled us up on the hay stack.

Actually, one of the reasons that the coyotes might have gotten to be a real problem right there was that we were shooting tons of rock chucks. This guy had a real problem with them in his pastures, and had never done any population control. For a while, there was a real supply of food for the coyotes from us killing the chucks. It was an odd area for the chucks because there was not a huge rock pile, just some large sheets of stone that in spots that they had burrowed under. It meant that when we caught them out in the field eating in the mornings, they did not fall down in the rock piles when shot. So there was a nice meal just laying out for the coyotes.


It is not that bad these days


Once(this was about 6 years before the incident in the farmers back yard), when I was over night at a friends house for his birthday (really young then), their dogs were barking at something in the yard. Then it sounded like a hell of a fight.

He had a hound dog mut, a smaller mut, and a German Shepard.

Only the German Shepard and the smaller mut made it back to the house (this was about 30 miles out in the country, no neighbors for quite a ways).

Early the next morning we went out and just found a bunch of blood and fur, never found the rest of the hound dog. Just the dog tracks and tons of coyote tracks, and a bunch of blood and fur. We had our rifles, but did not find any of the coyotes. They were probably napping, after having a big meal of hound dog.