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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3064543" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>It is good to help people to understand what they are and how they are used. Below is an old-style humane coyote getter that did in fact use a 38-caliber cartridge with a small powder charge and primer to propel sodium cyanide into the mouth of a predator that pulled up on them with their mouth over the top of them. The, fired 38 cartridge at the left, the cartridge holder, the firing unit that is spring loaded, has a firing pin and triggering device, then the tube or stake that holds it in the ground. That is how so many people think that there still a live cartridge in the newer style M-44. They used to scare the he09 out of me to pick them up when it was time to if they hadn't been pulled. You always knelt down beside of them with a leather glove on, extended your arm and turned your hand so it was with the back to you pushed downward on the unit then unscrewed the top, letting it drop-off onto the ground just in case an animal had pulled on it a little bit and hadn't fired it. Yes I did have a few go off while doing this and it scared the be jeepers out of me, putting it mildly. When an animal pulled them they would be scared and run as hard as they could from the sight. You would stand at the set and look in a 360-degree circle to see if you could locate the animal, sometimes they would be a couple of hundred yards away, then you started walking increasing circles from them or till you spotted the eagles eating the animal. By the way there is no secondary poisoning from the sodium cyanide, as the cyanide gases off when exposed to moisture. The way I set and picked them up as a kid carried over to my adult life and the use of safer M-44's. As with any tools we have there will be people that think they shouldn't be used. There will be people that shouldn't be allowed to have and use them and people that do good by using them and then there will be those that are very professional and do exceptional work with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 3064543, member: 91783"] It is good to help people to understand what they are and how they are used. Below is an old-style humane coyote getter that did in fact use a 38-caliber cartridge with a small powder charge and primer to propel sodium cyanide into the mouth of a predator that pulled up on them with their mouth over the top of them. The, fired 38 cartridge at the left, the cartridge holder, the firing unit that is spring loaded, has a firing pin and triggering device, then the tube or stake that holds it in the ground. That is how so many people think that there still a live cartridge in the newer style M-44. They used to scare the he09 out of me to pick them up when it was time to if they hadn't been pulled. You always knelt down beside of them with a leather glove on, extended your arm and turned your hand so it was with the back to you pushed downward on the unit then unscrewed the top, letting it drop-off onto the ground just in case an animal had pulled on it a little bit and hadn't fired it. Yes I did have a few go off while doing this and it scared the be jeepers out of me, putting it mildly. When an animal pulled them they would be scared and run as hard as they could from the sight. You would stand at the set and look in a 360-degree circle to see if you could locate the animal, sometimes they would be a couple of hundred yards away, then you started walking increasing circles from them or till you spotted the eagles eating the animal. By the way there is no secondary poisoning from the sodium cyanide, as the cyanide gases off when exposed to moisture. The way I set and picked them up as a kid carried over to my adult life and the use of safer M-44's. As with any tools we have there will be people that think they shouldn't be used. There will be people that shouldn't be allowed to have and use them and people that do good by using them and then there will be those that are very professional and do exceptional work with them. [/QUOTE]
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