You must not really live in Texas
So what can your neighbors do to you if you shoot one??? I assume you live outside City Limits.
Nope, we live inside the city limits, hence my hesitation to start dropping them.
There is a creek running along that tree line and there a lots of coyotes up and down it, they use it as their super highway.
The space is, roughly, 8 acres, owned by a church and has creeks on 2 sides of it.
When the firemen at the station go by all the coyotes start yipping.
I have seen as many as 5 in that same spot, laying around, sunning them selves.
Yeah......that's likely not powerful enough to assure a humane kill. If it doesn't, it'll be a real chore to score subsequent effective hits on a running, spinning coyote that's freaking out. I'd use something with some more oomph, at least a .22 Mag & use a head shot.
Either give the neighbors a heads-up of your intentions or keep it to yourself if they'd balk at the thought of necessarily removing a predator in your area of concern. The location of origin of a single shot is often not discernible by ear-witnesses unless it's very close.
If you end up bagging it, once any possible interest should've had a few hours or so to wane, recover the carcass & dispose of it.
This is all assuming you reside in an area where such action won't resiult in a squadron of Cobra gunships & a platoon of door-kickers being dispatched to seek you out.
Yeah, I was figuring that might be the case.
The next .22 up the chain is a .223 Rem and it would definitely annoy the neighbors
A friend worked for our city animal control and she told me if they find any dead animal with bullet holes, they are supposed turn it over to the police to investigate.
My grandson wants to bring his bow over, need to check with the city on that aspect.
I find lots of pet parts, collars, etc... mostly cats and worry a little about my dog... she is 80 pounds and probably OK on on one, but against a pack she would be in trouble.
-Brian