Well I am looking to take on a few coyotes in my area to. Last year we lost over a dozen barn cats to them. After this past winter we have none left. We are now worried about when we get the barn done and the horses are back in the property. Right now my lab and them are at a stand off. He will stare them down and they will do the same, but if he is not in the back yard they will try to get closer to the house to get the springers to them.

But what I am trying to figure out is how to get them out more. They mostly stay in the wetlands we have and not our woods. The problem with the wetlands is right now is the grass is about 5-6' tall. So I want to get them to come out more by the pond so I can get a clean shot. The problem is that they are not scared of people. Before I bought a shotgun this winter last year a few times I was able to get with in about 10-20' feet of them before they started to walk off.

Right now they are taking down the deer. A few month ago Mongo go loose when he broke his line durring the day and we think it was because he went after them. When we found him he had a hole rear leg of a deer in the front yard that he was chewing on. That night we heard them going off after a kill so we figure that is what they bright down because the leg was fresh.

Right now I only have 3 causing a large problem so I do not want to buy a lot of stuff for just trying to take care of 3 of them. We know there is more but it is just these 3 that try to pull off a lot of stuff in our yard.