Have any of you guys ever had this experience, or heard of anybody that did? I'd be curious if this is more common than not. Once the snow melts enough to look for shed horns on my property, I'll be packing enough fire power to put down an elephant. I've always thought maybe a black bear, cougar or wolves would be my prime concern. But I never in my wildest dreams thought at this time of year a coyote might attack a human. I've said many times on this forum, that I never, but never, walk my property with out a firearm. He did say that he tried dragging the coyote out, but found it to hard in the deep snow, so just left it there. I joked, that he should get a shoulder mount of his dead coyote. But I know someone who's glad he was carrying a gun. We'll never know what went through that yote's mind. I told him maybe they felt threatened by you intruding on their kill, and were just protecting their food. He had no idea why this coyote attacked, and could only speculate that maybe when he stepped through the killed site, he had blood on his boots, and the coyote saw him struggling up the steep hill. My partner said he was OK, just a few threads ripped on his jacket, and did have a scratch on his ear, but wasn't sure if it was the coyote or a twig he caught while on his trek. He said he was sure the yote was going for his neck, luckily the shot hit and killed the coyote.
Zenon had just enough time to squeeze a shot off with his right hand, while his left, blocked the coyote from jumping on him. Just as he went to get the gun off his back, a seventh coyote out of no where, tore up the trail he was on. As he turned around, he could see 6 coyotes around him in the bush. He was struggling to get up the hill, through the deep snow, which was almost up to his knackers, when he stopped to take a rest. He stopped to look over the kill site, eventually stepping through it and proceeding up a steep hill on the trail. He soon came upon a fairly fresh deer kill, before he got to it, he did see a coyote in the bush, but didn't think much of it. For some reason he didn't like the way his snowshoes were performing, so he took them off, and began trudging through the deep snow. We had a lot of snow this year, and with the cool spring we've been having it hasn't melted much. Zenon, my hunting partner of 15 years, was out at his property yesterday, trekking through the bush on his snowshoes. Just got off the phone about an hour ago with my hunting buddy, he told me about his ordeal with a pack of coyotes.
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