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How much air gun do I need to kill coyotes at 40 yards or less?
I live in an urban neighborhood and the coyotes around here are getting bolder and bolder all the time. Cats are disappearing everywhere, including my favorite Tuxedo Tom, and they are running in a green belt right next to my house. A firearm is out of the question as there is an elementary school 200 yards away. Would like to stay under $500. If possible but I am really sick of these coyotes.


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Do a quick search in youtube. There are several videos of coyotes taken with an air rifle. Most are 25cal PCP. You can probably get the rifle for $500 but scope and pump (or tank) will get you closer to $750.

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Buy a can for your 22.



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A firearm is out of the question as there is an elementary school 200 yards away.

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we had a terrible problem in austin so city concil hired trapper, caught 7 yotes in 1st week near a buddy. maybe you can find a local hunter--trapper to assit. have to watch out for trapped pets cranky72

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As much as I like my .25 cal PCP, you can pretty much duplicate it's ballistics (31 grain pellet @ 800 fps)with a CCI .22 Long CB load....29 grain bullet @ 710 fps. The CCI .22 LR Quite load is a 40 grain bullet at 710 fps. If it's too dangerous to use those, then it is for the airgun also. Any of them will be head shot only if you want them DRT.


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Walmart has the 25 PCP for under $500.00. There is a 22 sub-sonic with a 60gr. bullet that would have more energy if
considering sub-sonic rounds. Cheers NC


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Originally Posted by carlm
A firearm is out of the question as there is an elementary school 200 yards away.


I believe that is due to sound. Not the projectile. A modern air gun is doing the same thing a 22 is.



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Originally Posted by ramrod340
Do a quick search in youtube. There are several videos of coyotes taken with an air rifle. Most are 25cal PCP. You can probably get the rifle for $500 but scope and pump (or tank) will get you closer to $750.

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PCP guns are noisier than a 22LR and much louder than a CB Long.



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Just going by what the OP said. If he is weapon literate and I think he is, surely he entertained a firearm already. The issue could be noise, muzzle flash, ricochet, or whatever. Not sure about the .22 firearm to .25 airgun comparison...and I own both. Yes a modern airgun will do the same thing a .22 firearm will-in a very different way.

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Originally Posted by Remington6MM
How much air gun do I need to kill coyotes at 40 yards or less?
I live in an urban neighborhood and the coyotes around here are getting bolder and bolder all the time. Cats are disappearing everywhere, including my favorite Tuxedo Tom, and they are running in a green belt right next to my house. A firearm is out of the question as there is an elementary school 200 yards away. Would like to stay under $500. If possible but I am really sick of these coyotes.

Snares may be the answer for this situation. Hang in places they are crawling under fences or on trails through brush or high grass.


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I agree with Travis that a can on on one of my .22's is the answer but I don't have access to a can that I know of. A buddy of mine brought over his German made 177 and when I shot it I was amazed that it made more noise than a subsonic .22. I have killed three using the subsonic, but that is when school was out and I had the advantage of using my office as a suppressor. Just opened the window a few inches and made a nice clean head shot at about 40 yards. Pop and dead. I think I will look on YouTube again and see what it takes to build a can.

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Actually, you gave the answer - - a trapper. Maybe, you.


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Originally Posted by Remington6MM
I agree with Travis that a can on on one of my .22's is the answer but I don't have access to a can that I know of. A buddy of mine brought over his German made 177 and when I shot it I was amazed that it made more noise than a subsonic .22. I have killed three using the subsonic, but that is when school was out and I had the advantage of using my office as a suppressor. Just opened the window a few inches and made a nice clean head shot at about 40 yards. Pop and dead. I think I will look on YouTube again and see what it takes to build a can.

Travis, is your machine shop up and working?

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A 220 Conibear is much quieter and more deadly. Make sure you can set it where no kid could get into it and you would have to worry about someones dog getting in it too.

Setting snares on likely paths in/out of the greenbelt may be an option too, same precautions as above.


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If you could stretch your budget a tad, you could get into a big bore air rifle. Something like a 9mm.

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22 pumper. Benjamin if you can, a little light but aim well and they killed my cat so to hell with them,

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Originally Posted by ConradCA
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Do a quick search in youtube. There are several videos of coyotes taken with an air rifle. Most are 25cal PCP. You can probably get the rifle for $500 but scope and pump (or tank) will get you closer to $750.

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http://www.pyramydair.com/s/pre_packaged_deals/Benjamin_Marauder_PCP_Air_Rifle_Synthetic_Stock/6067


PCP guns are noisier than a 22LR and much louder than a CB Long.


Some might be. Others most definitely are not. A .25 cal Marauder is so quiet, and so unlike the report of a firearm, that the impact of the pellet will draw the most attention.



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Originally Posted by Scott_Thornley
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Originally Posted by ramrod340
Do a quick search in youtube. There are several videos of coyotes taken with an air rifle. Most are 25cal PCP. You can probably get the rifle for $500 but scope and pump (or tank) will get you closer to $750.

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http://www.pyramydair.com/s/pre_packaged_deals/Benjamin_Marauder_PCP_Air_Rifle_Synthetic_Stock/6067




PCP guns are noisier than a 22LR and much louder than a CB Long.


Some might be. Others most definitely are not. A .25 cal Marauder is so quiet, and so unlike the report of a firearm, that the impact of the pellet will draw the most attention.


Very true about the Marauder especially if you modify it a bit with a shroud extension & give it the B-staley mod. which is very easy to do...


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