In one of the stranger hunts I've ever been on, I got charged by a coyote. Well, one of our kittens followed me deer hunting that morning and was sitting beside me, and the coyotes around here know pets are usually easy pickings. The coyote covered a hundred yards in only a few moments running straight toward us and stopped at about 50 yards away when I turned my Weatherby toward it. A 130 grain 270 bullet nearly blew it apart.
True, I was in comparatively little danger, but there's no way I was letting a coyote get close to one of our pets. Defense of a third party, I guess?
