Trash Pandas Crowd Dance Floor

[SHOMER]

Was a crowded 4:30 am dance floor with four avocado eating trash Pandas it's 20 yards to camera and shooting range is 30 yards.
Duty station second floor balcony with a tripod mounted Leshiy 2 Hornet 350mm shooting .25 Domed Benjamin 27.9 gr.
Bottom line our non union Coyotes did their usual great clean up work , so everybody was happy happy except for those Pandas.

 

[L.Leon]

Wow! Bandit country… Thankfully you and the “clean up” crew are up to the task. You’re lucky to have such an efficient crew, getting rid of those bandits would be a quite a physical chore if you didn’t have the help.

 

[SHOMER]

Luis in the pass some of these Pandas were pushing forty pounds of dead weight.
So I am really glad to have a good working relationship with our yotes.
They have done so right by us they get a pass around here.

 

[Ranchibi]

Great shooting on the many trash pandas! Beautiful L2!

 

[beerthief]

Your going to have those yotes trained to watch the dance floor in a short time .

 

[BlackICE]

Did you get all 4? I would think after the 1st one goes down the rest would quickly run out of range. 4 would be more than 1 yote would take away.

 

[SHOMER]

Got the first one with a clean head shot and the rest with fast upper body shots as they were line dancing around.
The dance floor is one of many hillside terraces which helps slow any upward movement, down ward not so much as gravity is in play.
Left or right movement is controlled by a four foot chain link fencing narrow gate to slow any fast crowd exiting.
Funny thing about yotes is they'll only reproduce if there is a food source close.
Our yotes number about six adults and work in pairs, the females will block an exit point while the males herds the prey toward them.
Their den is a stones throw away down by a creek and they'll pair up if need be to drag their take out orders home.
Most times there is only one or two Pandas, but sometimes it's Omaha beach, that's the reason why we got two different tripod mounted L2.

 

[BlackICE]

I would say that your semi-auto is perfect for your needs. If you had a gun that you needed to cycle it would be hard even to get 2. Do you hear and coon yote fights at night?

 

[Ranchibi]

Luck favors the PREPARED! X2 L2's will provide that .

 

[SHOMER]

Years ago our losses were 10-40 avocados a night to these cute, but very destructive little bastards.
Our first real defensive PCP was the ever faithful Benjamin M-rod and then a pair of P-rods. But bolt actions do have their speed to accuracy limitations for serious group activities. However a P-rod still rides along in a grove cart for daytime squirrels. Semi auto is needed for pursuing any serious group activities so we tried the AEA line which in night use left a lot to be desired. The Leshiy 2 is our perfect grove defender it's only negative is quick night magazine changes for my ham hock hands. Better and faster having two different positions with tripod mounted L2.

The use of game cameras helped greatly in supplying time and movement direction plus their normal behaviors. Which I used to further tweak the dance floor environment for that all important ever so sight edge. Much like controlling that all important break shot in pool, there is purpose in what looks to the layman like chaos. Our Yotes check in every night at different hours for any take outs and sometimes the cries of a mortally wounded coon breaks the quiet stillness of darkness.

An alpha checking in while a female remains in darkness.

Female guards protects exist gate while the male listens carefully

Male locked in on quarry and the hunt is on

 

[L.Leon]

@SHOMER, what a sweet, methodical system you have... very well thought out. Really enjoyed the images of the clean up crew, thanks. Also, your insights into the various PCPs you’ve deployed over time.

 

[beerthief]

Almost make me wish i had the same problem and set up .

 

[SHOMER]

There was a time when these cute bastards had us on the ropes with their nightly destructive ways.
So we sought to break the destructive cycle by any means possible. Some things didn't work at all, while other things worked somewhat but overtime were refined to our environment. I posted so that perhaps others may reap some benefit from our years long quest in subduing trash Pandas. A very good and informative book "COYOTE AMERICA" thanks much guys.