The roadrunners where I live take care of the coyotes. 
The dents from the anvils is a PITA though…
And here I thought you were going to suggest an illudium pu-36 space modulator. sad
Check your laws. In the same category as gunpowder discharge where I live, and it’s not even California. Can’t shoot in congested area, I don’t remember if bows are included. That said, it’s a law that is frequently flouted for pest control as the chances of getting caught and prosecuted are very low.
Standard .177 pellets are a bit weak for coyote, but they make them bigger, and even the small pellets are not non-lethal options.
Those were not an Acme product.
Google “motion detector paintball gun.” Not necessarily cheap…
Illudium pu-36 explosive space modulator. An ordinary one won’t do the job.
However, when properly deployed, it will, to say the least, set off every nuke detector and seismograph on the planet.
Poison gets into the food chain with a lot of unintended consequences, all bad.
How close can you get to them? Can you leave some food out and ambush them?
My grandfather had horses that he rode around his small town on occasion. Dogs would come barking and try to chase him, but he kept a spray bottle full of ammonia with him. If they came close enough to get sprayed, it would be the last time. They’d usually run the other way when they saw him coming after that.
What about a motion-activated sprinkler? seen it recommended on those ‘my cat from hell’ to keep neighbor cats out of your yard. I can’t say if it’d annoy the coyotes enough to make them go somewhere else or just give them a free drink.
Also, make sure your dog is very, very well trained. Coyotes will sometimes have one come out and entice the dog to play. Once they run off for fun and frolic, they meet the rest of the pack, and the dog is donezo.
I wouldn’t know where to get lug nuts in quantity, and I can’t believe they would be very aerodynamic. However, you can buy 00 buckshot for less than $30 for 5 pounds.
.330 inch lead balls fly true, and make a very satisfying ‘thud’ when they hit something. They are available at any worthwhile sporting good store that carries reloading supplies.
5 pounds could probably be considered a lifetime supply.
Planet express will deliver boxes of precious lug nuts to you. Though there might be…complications.
We live in the country, and are generally animal lovers. Except for coyotes. They are relatively rare here, but universally hated. A neighbor came around asking people if they’d mind him hunting/shooting coyotes. Any other animal and he’d have a huge majority of “no ways”, but everyone agreed on him killing coyotes.
That reminds me of a conversation that I had with a summer student we had who came from the farm. We were talking about coyotes and she says they kill them on sight. I said, “why?”
SS:Because they go after the newborn calves and we’ve lost a few to them.
Me: How many cows do you lose a year to broken legs due to gopher holes?
SS: A few but we poison them so it’s less than it was.
Me: Do you think that maybe if you didn’t poison the gophers the coyotes would and be less inclined to go after the calves?
SS: That’s just stupid!
Me: Not to mention the effort involved with laying out poison and the outlay for guns and ammo…
SS: You obviously don’t get it!
Me: Oh, I get it. Let me guess, you shoot ravens too.
SS: Of course!
Me: Yeah…
Yep. We used to “hire” ourselves out to local ranchers to kill off some ground squirrels, since after killing off the coyotes, bobcats and raptors, the ground squirrel population zoomed way up and they were lossing more cattle to broken legs than they even did to predators. Cattlemen insisted eagles and other raptors would carry off and kill calves.
Sure, you would find cattle eaten by coyotes, but that’s becuase the cattle fell ill or died and the coyotes acted as jackals.
Ah yes, that would be the “earth shattering kaboom”.
We live on the edge of a canyon (not on a cliff edge, but atop a pretty steep pitch) about 60-70 feet above a golf course. We hear the coyote packs down on the golf course many nights, but as far as I know they don’t climb up the hill to our residential street. I don’t know about the neighborhood on the floor of the canyon level with the golf course.
The javelina, on the other hand, just go wherever they feel like and they don’t scare easily. We had a group in our front courtyard munching away on our jack-o-lantern (learned a lesson about leaving anything remotely edible outside). I went out the door and chucked a softball-sized rock at one of them. Hit him squarely in the side - he just turned and stared at me. I decided to retreat back indoors and let them have the pumpkin.
Big freaking eagles. Did these cattlemen live in Rohan or Gondor?
…they won’t be around for another 983 or so years. I could wait a few days, but that’s a bit too long. 00 buck I can get today.