Last night we had a "super moon." A full moon that was 7% larger than normal, due to its orbit bringing it unusually close to Earth.
The coyotes in my part-suburban, part-rural area were going nuts. At one point I thought I had a pack of them howling in the back yard (I've got an acre of grass that backs up to a neighboring property's 100-acre woods and cow pasture).
I went outside with a .22 WMR rifle with an attached Mag-Light.
If I'd have seen any, I might have taken a shot. It was late enough that I might possibly be in violation of a county noise ordinance, however. But I'd like to find some of those varmints out in the brush line, where I can put the crosshairs on one of them, sometime in the early evening.
The howling stopped when I was outside, but after I went it, 5 minutes later it was back, this time from about 200 yards away in my neighbor's front yard.
The coyotes in my part-suburban, part-rural area were going nuts. At one point I thought I had a pack of them howling in the back yard (I've got an acre of grass that backs up to a neighboring property's 100-acre woods and cow pasture).
I went outside with a .22 WMR rifle with an attached Mag-Light.
If I'd have seen any, I might have taken a shot. It was late enough that I might possibly be in violation of a county noise ordinance, however. But I'd like to find some of those varmints out in the brush line, where I can put the crosshairs on one of them, sometime in the early evening.
The howling stopped when I was outside, but after I went it, 5 minutes later it was back, this time from about 200 yards away in my neighbor's front yard.
