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Dammit Rog, ya gotta spend less time hunting, fishing and working and more time at home on the innernet, else you woulda seen this the first time around.

In conversations about this at the time it turns out the Canadian version of the coyote in the east has a strong admixture of wolf genes, and run larger than our Texas coyotes.

This was a horrific attack. I'm not sure the full details ever came out and I hope I'm wrong but the impression I got was nobody directly intervened to stop it until the Cops arrived on the scene, thirty minutes after the 911 calls were made.

Birdwatcher

I am probably mistaken but from memory I think the Park Ranger responded to the scene without a firearm and for whatever reason retreated and drove back to HQ where he got an 870 .12 gauge went back to the scene and then wounded one of the coyotes and missed the others. My guess is he wasn't familiar with firearms and was pretty shook up as well. Hope the Park Rangers evaluated their training and firearms policy afterward.

WTF do you think I meant when I mentioned the city.

Dammit Rog, ya gotta spend less time hunting, fishing and working and more time at home on the innernet, else you woulda seen this the first time around.

In conversations about this at the time it turns out the Canadian version of the coyote in the east has a strong admixture of wolf genes, and run larger than our Texas coyotes.

Ready;
Top of the morning to you sir, I trust this finds you and yours doing acceptably well on this cool fall morning.

I'm on my last gulp of coffee before heading up the mountain behind our house in search of a fat whitetail buck that is sufficiently dense enough to stand still long enough for me, but thought I'd comment on Roger's thread here quickly.

As noted by at least one poster, we're not allowed to carry firearms in a the national parks, but in our experience nobody even blinks when I've had one of these strapped to my day pack straps or on my hip in plain view.



Over the years I've needed to use a knife to put down a good double handful of MV hit deer and am quite sure a blade would be much, much better than nothing in a predatory attack.

That said, we're typically carrying a couple cans of bear spray and it wasn't unusual for me to have a custom laminated hardwood walking stick in my hands either.

Again nobody raised an eyebrow at them, especially if one turned the conversation to the wildflowers we'd seen down the way.....

I hope and pray I never have to endure what this young lady did- to say the least its a horrific way to die.

That said, I am fairly confident that if I did or if I encountered a fellow backwoods hiker in a similar situation that the right mindset combined with some basic tools might/could affect the outcome in a more positive manner.

Anyway sir, I'd better saddle up and slither on up the mountain now. All the best to you folks Ready and good luck on your remaining hunts this fall.

Dwayne

Those hikers should have picked up solid tree limbs and chased them off.

"She loved the woods and had a deep affinity for their beauty and serenity."

Her manager, Lisa Weitz, wrote in an e-mai:


Like many people, the singer and her manager held the flawed view that the woods is a place of serenity. The singer learned, the hard way, that it isn't. It's a kill-or-be-killed theater, an eat-or-be-eaten environment. The manager, even with first-hand experience, continues to ignore the obvious. It's sad, and unfortunate. Sadly and unfortunately, it's also willful.

Steve.

I wonder how many Yotes were in the pack when they attacked? That might have something to do with the action of the onlookers and the Park Ranger..

Three...

yeah but its still interesting, first i have heard of a pack of coyotes killing an adult.

Probably saw the woods as some scene out of a Disney movie. I'm more like the old Puritans and Pilgrams and see the woods as a dark and dangerous place.

You need to consider the time frame also. This was NOT a quick affair. It went on for a considerable amount of time which says even worse for the other people who where there. Coyotes don't usually kill the prey before they eat it. They were eating her alive for more than an hour.The others just listened while it happened.