Hooey and I drove down to Selma NC (about 150 miles and 3 hrs round trip) to pickup 8 250 gallon IBC totes and 6 45 gallon food grade barrels (that contained pepperoncini peppers from Greece!) to get our Nile Tilapia fishery and aquaponic garden kicked off in a month or so.
Not captured on video. Late in evening, that prick coyote attacked again. I was ready. 30-30 rifle outside primed to go (locked and loaded, at ambient temp to the optics weren’t hazed). The coyote was apparently confused by the donkeys being in the garden pasture (with the chickens) and stopped for just a second … 50 yards out. I squeezed the trigger, but no BOOM. WTF??? The safety had only partially disengaged! By the time I got the safety fully disengaged, the coyote was on the run. I took a 75 yard shot, but apparently missed, because I took the shot just as the ‘dog’ was transitioning from pasture to woods. Lucky prick! Next time …