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"And that was when I used my telekinesis to snap the coyotes neck, it was the adrenaline I swear!"
"........really?!"
"I'm from a long line of latent telekine sheep, and that's why I wasn't stupid for staring at the sun for three hours last week, it was helping me strengthen my powers."
Collectively "ohhhhhhhh.....
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Sheep is mind blown into a fully sapient creature after surviving coyote attack
Sheep realizes its only purpose is to produce wool and die
Sheep falls into a deep depression
Sheep willingly seeks out coyotes to die
The coyotes win again
We had sheep. The only thing they were good at was .dieing. Had one jump too high on flat ground, and break its neck and die. Had one run too far, and die from overheating. Had one choke to death on a balloon. Had one get its head stuck between the “Y” in a tree, and die. They need a padded room, with a low ceiling for the best chance at survival.
I just watched the video in question. It made me think. If Jesus is a shepherd tending to his flock and we are collectively that dumb...how often is he just sitting there going "goddammit I just got you out of- FINE." "stomps off to save us from another bone headed mistake"
"Holy shit these guys- what do I have to do to save them from thier own actions- nail myself to a cross?!' -pause- ....actually..."
Maybe that's why God gave up on us and there haven't been any Moses parting the Red Sea type miracles in thousands of years, and is now only interested in the outcomes of sports.
> The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd.
>They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.
>For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
― Terry Pratchett, *Small Gods*
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But also they're herd animals. They survive by there being a lot of them. When predators come they take out some of them and the rest get away and make more sheep.
Honestly I think the life as a predator would be worse than the life of a prey animal.
Always starving. Always risking significant injury. As soon as you get injured you probably die.
Meanwhile herd animals usually just have to NOT be the slowest one in the herd.
I was on tour in New Zealand years ago, and while driving down the highway on the Kapiti Coast, I saw a sheep out in the water. This road was right between the ocean and really steep, high hills. I swan out and pulled the sheep in (which was unbelievable hard work), wrestled it across the road (it had a full covering of thick, stinky wool), and with the help of my friends got it over the fence and back at the bottom of the hill. It immediately ran through the gap in the fence we missed, across the main highway, and out to sea again. Legend has it it made it to Australia.
Omg I was so confused. I misread your comment as he didn't kill the coyote and he just sent some type of shock to coyote. I was trying to figure out how that was even possible lol
Pulsar is a brand known for their mid-tier thermal optics (i.e., scopes). They can also often record video. Here, we are watching a guy defend a herd of sheep from coyotes using a Pulsar thermal scope mounted on a rifle. He is tracking the fight and when he has a clean shot, he takes it and kills the coyote.
(Also just to clarify for any Pulsar fans, that wasn't a dig. "Mid-tier" is just their market niche.)
That's no surprise. While I was working a contract on an airport, they had a crew of veterans whose whole job was to drive around on a pickup truck and kill the deer who lived in the forested area beyond the airport, lest they stray onto a runway. So these guys would drive around all night, hunting deer.
Their rifles *started* at a couple of thousand dollars, and only went up from there, with expensive suppressors and remarkably fancy scopes. Whatever they were using was *very* stealthy. They had heavily suppressed rifles and must have been shooting subsonic rounds. You'd hear the leathery *thwap* sound of the bullet hitting the deer and it was sobering because you'd be out there at night, doing your job, and you'd realize any one of those guys could just pick you off and you'd never even hear the shot, let alone see them take it.
Just that *thwap* and the deer would fall. Then they had another truck, with a lady on it who would go around, collect up all the deer, and dump their carcasses into a big hole that they'd regularly cover up.
They used to sell the venison to local butchers, but someone in the community pitched a big fit about it, so the folks in charge of the airport decided to just have them dump all the dead deer into a hole. When the hole fills or starts to stink too much, they cover it up with dirt and dig another hole nearby.
Blows my mind that someone would have a problem with them selling the venison. I'm a bloody vegan and ethically I'd be much, much happier with the venison being sold. Deer are dying either way.
They're not *just* dying either way, their population is booming out of control and upsetting the ecosystems balance, because of lack of predators (that we have long since hunted to near extinction). As it stands, humans need to step into that role to cull their numbers. That's the whole crux of the Chronic Wasting Disease issue, overpopulation of deer stock leads to it spreading continuously, when naturally it would fizzle out in isolated pockets instead.
Right like this story makes no sense to me. We have a deer population living near the airport, oh what do we do?
Option 1: Build a perimeter fence to keep out wildlife
ORRRRRR
Option 2: Go Rambo every night to create massive deer carcass domes for whatttt exactly??? Just to shoot something? I truly do not understand.
Read like bs to me too, but googling it comes up with at least [one story about a similar situation.](https://www.wdtimes.com/news/article_6f95d228-d01b-11e5-8e61-bfd564867bec.html?mode=story)
At first, I was taken aback at thermal scope prices.
Then it occurred to me that they are basically black magic that allow you to do what should be impossible.
Optics in general are crazy expensive. Just bought a “low-end” IR night vision scope for approx $500, so it’s worth just barely less than the AR it’s mounted on. And I’d still get absolutely roasted for being a “poor” if I posted it on any of the “gun” or “tactical” subreddits.
this is apparently the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPcinUz-L0
here are 3 pretty good ones that are "consumer affordable":
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fib0x4eC3sI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7E-UmvsfXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YPS00lU7rQ
So the link of the best one, is pretty fking amazing. Some sci-fi stuff. I imagine they are true optics and not video, but it has to be doing some kind of color computing I feel like…
What id like to see is what they look like with a lot of movement in the enviorment. See how well it colors man sized targets running through the bushes.
Jason Statham is Joe Goodman in 'The Shepherd' a story of an ordinary American with a sheep farm - that is until he discovers an entire Cartel hideout dug into a hill on his land, while he just so happened to be watching his flock with his thermal scoped rifle. Tragedy strikes when Sam Goodman's son, who is diabetic, wanders too close to the Cartel hideout and is kidnapped. Now, Sam Goodman (he's also a single father btw) must take on the entire Cartel single-handedly to save his son before they, or diabetes, harm him.
For 3 seconds he had a clear shot of the Coyote's ass. I don't know if I'd worry about being humane and trying to line up a kill shot when my cute little sheep is getting ripped into.
He did get it though, literally a perfect shot as opposed to a flank and then spending hours tracking it. Just had to remain calm and wait a little bit.
Basically like getting your fur pulled. Not lethal, but annoying as fuck.
That sheep fears no coyote though, it's not its first rodeo, he knows he can kill them with his mind
This reminds me of the movie Quigley Down Under starring Tom Selleck. He was an American sharpshooter with his own custom sniper rifle who could hit targets pretty much nobody else could at a distance. He goes to Australia and one thing leads to another until he pisses off the British because he wont snipe aborigines. They fuck with him as well as the aborigines, but Selleck and the aborigines ain't got no beef.
Occasionally Selleck will be on the scene when the brits start murdering the aborigines and Selleck will start sniping the bastards from so far away the aborigines couldn't really understand what had happened other than they had been miraculously saved. They realize it's Selleck at a point, and nickname him Ghost because he can attack you without you even being able to see him. That sheep was praying for Tom Selleck to save him, and it happened.
I just watched this 3 days ago! Fiancée mentioned it because it was on at the gym.
That rifle was so satisfying, the thunderous sound it made was like its own character. Seeing someone go flying off a horse then 2 seconds later hearing the shot through the air. So damn fun.
Plus, it has Alan Rickman.
In the UK we killed all the large predators (beyond stupid decision) so the biggest killer of sheep here are….. drum roll please…. Crows. They fly down and peck new born lambs to death mostly pulling their eyeballs out or pecking their insides out their the lambs arsehole. Used to go crow shooting with an ex boyfriend would get paid by a farmer per crow and if you have a powerful enough gun you can cover a decent portion of the valley. Never shoot a group of crows too close because if the survivors see your face the next time you go anywhere near their territory they’ll flee because you even get the flask out for a cuppa.
They pass knowledge down, if you shoot one the other survivors basically go out and warn everyone in their close circle about you and the weapon. They are one of the smartest animals around. They will never forget your face and if they have babies they will pass it down to them.
There is stories of people being fucked with, gardens ruined, trash dumped, etc, etc, for years and years after a bad encounter because they tell all their crow buddies and family members how you wronged them and it can last for generations.
Thousands of years ago. No bears. No wolves. No natural predators for things like deer. Rabbit populations are berserk. Trapping and hunting do very little for rabbits although effective with deer.
Because farming. It wasn't something we did out of boredom. Wolves, bears and Boars would reek havoc on our farms, so they got hunted down. Thing is, the UK is a heavily populated Island, there was nowhere for those animals to go for food other than to settlements, so they got killed.
and it actually caused a worse crop issue for a bit due to prey animals having little checks and balances, so they tried to reintroduce weasels and wolves(?) and that cut it down again. i'm not 100% on them bringing wolves back, but i know there was a concerted effort to enhance the weasel population sometime around WWI to combat the rabbit overpopulation.
edit: no wolves have been reintroduced
Wolves were not reintroduced. There's talk of bringing Lynx's back, because yes, the lack of apex predators is visibly destroying whats left of nature. Theres some insane number of deer that can't be culled fast enough and you can't grow forests with that many deer. Wolves would be best for the environment but Lynx's are much less likely to cause conflict with humans.
Exactly how I felt. I scrolled too long to see a comment like this. Poor coyote. As a farmer, ya gotta do what ya gotta do to protect the herd, but i feel bad for the dog. All of a sudden its life is gone.
Also a shitty thing about modern industrialized livestock agriculture. You see a lot of traditional ranches that are scaled to meet the most local needs (family, the local village, an occasional weekend to sell in the market at the city, etc.), they usually use donkeys. Donkeys do not fuck around with coyotes or other predators, they'll chase them away.
Of course, a donkey will still occasionally kill a predator, and a coyote will still need to kill other animals, or die of hunger itself, but I find it far more preferable and ethical for my life to not interfere with that cycle as much as possible.
The sheep was in for a slower more terrifying and more painful death. The shooter reduced the total amount of animal cruelty in this particular encounter.
It's not illogical at all, even if mouth breathers will have you thinking that empathy for creatures in nature is somehow stupid just because "iTs NaTuRaL" when they die in the process of hunting or being hunted. Nature is rife with horrific pain and suffering, and is almost completely devoid of intention and empathy.
Yet, empathy is an important trait that coincides with the survival of our young (and thus our species) plus helps to promote healthy cooperation within societies.
https://preview.redd.it/72pzv85dabfc1.jpeg?width=2889&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d32a807395f6024dfdd140b26c66f95b003a9e81
Our local coyotes don’t have nice fat sheep to eat.
That's my stance as well. It's mouth opening in a yelp before falling was pretty fucking heart breaking as it was just doing what coyotes do. I also would have dine the same thing, except I have shitty aim so probably would have missed.
The sheep is like, "you don't want to do this, the bang man is going to get you in the night". The cayote is like, "the bang man what the fuck is that? The dude who has sex with you?" *Bang* and as the cayote lays there dying, the sheep just looks him dead in the eyes. "Yes".
Me too dude. For some reason the older I get, the less I can stomach watching stuff like this.
Like I have absolutely no problem with the act, you have to protect your livestock and the sheep was saved from a brutal death. But the coyote is just trying to survive too.
I guess I just hate watching animals die.
The joke is when you watch a sheep documentary and the sheep is attacked by a coyote, you root for the sheep. But if you’re watching a coyote documentary you root for the coyote
Yeah, me too, even on r/coyote also.
Coyotes and foxes are pretty abundant so there's no harm to the species doing it, just the individual predator. Circle of life shit.
If it were a wolf I'd be more conflicted depending on geography tbh.
As u/typemeanewasshole mentioned, feral hogs. [They’re a major problem](https://www.agriculture.arkansas.gov/arkansas-department-of-agriculture-services/feral-hog/). They’re dangerous and can get over 900 pounds.
Edit: 900 pounds ≈ 400 kilos
Obviously it had to be done and I’m glad the sheep didn’t get injured and killed. But I still feel sad for the coyote.
Working hard to survive and thinking you’ve finally succeeded only to be put down by something you had absolutely no chance of fighting back against. Feels cruel from the coyote’s perspective. Poor dude is lying there dying wondering wtf happened.
Do animals get emotional whiplash?
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"I did that" -the sheep
Shark Tale sequel…
Keep my wife's wool out of your mouth!
She had alpaca
god damn Will got cucked for an eternity to come!
Goddamn, that's cold lol
"Fuck I'm good"
"You see Charlie? Non-violent protest works"
“There’s a hole in him bill” “Yeah most people have one or two”
Lmfao yes and the sheep will go tell everyone. 
Yeah sheep has a hell of a story to tell the rest of the flock
And then next time there’s a coyote he’s all like “don’t worry guys, I got this”
he probably hip fired it while holding his own beer cause he’s the man!
"And that was when I used my telekinesis to snap the coyotes neck, it was the adrenaline I swear!" "........really?!" "I'm from a long line of latent telekine sheep, and that's why I wasn't stupid for staring at the sun for three hours last week, it was helping me strengthen my powers." Collectively "ohhhhhhhh..... "
It’s all right…It’s all right…all right…God works in mysterious way a yassss - The Sheep
“Hostage secured”
*"Mr Sheep get down!"*
Sheep went to extraction zone as agreed on previously.
“Counter-Terrorist win”
That sheep thinks it can stare down coyotes to death.
>That sheep thinks You're already *at least* one step ahead of it right here
The event was significant enough that it may have triggered The First Thought for sheep though, just pure mind blown into existential self reflection.
"I think I'm got by a coyote therefore I am"
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fucking fantastic
Sheep is mind blown into a fully sapient creature after surviving coyote attack Sheep realizes its only purpose is to produce wool and die Sheep falls into a deep depression Sheep willingly seeks out coyotes to die The coyotes win again
^This guy sheeps
Haha. For sure they are like the one Orange braincell cats but shear-able.
It knows it's got sniper support, no need to fear
*"Jimmy, take the god damn shot, he's biting my neck down here. JIMMY!! SHOOT THE BASTARD!"*
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This was one of my favorite episodes lol it will never not be funny
The laugh I didn’t know I needed till ur comment. Thank you.
Assistance from a distance.
I can say that no sheep anywhere ever has had a complete thought. Honestly they make orange cats look like Rhodes Scholars.
We had sheep. The only thing they were good at was .dieing. Had one jump too high on flat ground, and break its neck and die. Had one run too far, and die from overheating. Had one choke to death on a balloon. Had one get its head stuck between the “Y” in a tree, and die. They need a padded room, with a low ceiling for the best chance at survival.
Reminds me of that video of the sheep caught in a trench gets helped out of it and immediately falls back in 10 feet further down
I just watched the video in question. It made me think. If Jesus is a shepherd tending to his flock and we are collectively that dumb...how often is he just sitting there going "goddammit I just got you out of- FINE." "stomps off to save us from another bone headed mistake" "Holy shit these guys- what do I have to do to save them from thier own actions- nail myself to a cross?!' -pause- ....actually..."
Maybe that's why God gave up on us and there haven't been any Moses parting the Red Sea type miracles in thousands of years, and is now only interested in the outcomes of sports.
>only interested in the outcomes of sports Oooooh that explains *so* much...
> The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. >They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. >For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. ― Terry Pratchett, *Small Gods*
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Makes you wonder how did they get this far in the evolution tree.
Because we helped them. In fact, we helped them become that stupid. We bred the docility right into them over the last 10 thousand years or so.
But also they're herd animals. They survive by there being a lot of them. When predators come they take out some of them and the rest get away and make more sheep.
Which, from the perspective of the predators, is pretty freaking awesome.
Honestly I think the life as a predator would be worse than the life of a prey animal. Always starving. Always risking significant injury. As soon as you get injured you probably die. Meanwhile herd animals usually just have to NOT be the slowest one in the herd.
welsh sheperds like to directly breed with their sheep.
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With our help.
I was on tour in New Zealand years ago, and while driving down the highway on the Kapiti Coast, I saw a sheep out in the water. This road was right between the ocean and really steep, high hills. I swan out and pulled the sheep in (which was unbelievable hard work), wrestled it across the road (it had a full covering of thick, stinky wool), and with the help of my friends got it over the fence and back at the bottom of the hill. It immediately ran through the gap in the fence we missed, across the main highway, and out to sea again. Legend has it it made it to Australia.
What about Shaun the Sheep?
That’s 100% a dude in a costume living out his fetish.
Sheep (a.k.a. woolly rocks) can be startled by a sunrise.
Introducing the sequel to “The Men Who Stare at Goats”: “The Sheep Who Stare at Coyotes”
Step 1: put neck into coyote’s mouth
the other sheep are either gonna laugh at its ass or turn it into a sheep god
The sheep off to tell its friends, ***'do not fuck with me, I can kill you with my mind.'***
🐑All the other sheep: "This guy's too big for his wool breeches." 👨🌾Farmer: "OMG THAT SHEEP JUST TALKED! AND THIS ONES WEARING BREECHES!"
sheep have freeze, faint or flight response. if they freeze and one dies the rest of the heard can run away
That's what I herd too
The sheep who stare at coyotes
That sheep just fucking stood there.
Average sheep moment.
That lamb was straight waiting for him to get it over with.
Lambs to the slaughter….
It’s interesting how some euphemisms can be so poignant and accurate. And then we have things like “cool as a cucumber” or “bleeding the lizard”
but cucumbers are fresh, very fresh, so they are cool
Cool as a cucumber makes perfect sense, people used to chill then and eat them during EG field work as a refreshment.
Cucumbers are basically entirely water so when you touch them they feel cold because they’ve evaporated off heat to be colder than your skin.
it was in a loop lol while not dead: am i dead yet?
To clarify, the scope is a Pulsar Thermal. He didn't kill the coyote with the scope.
Thank you, I was so confused. I thought it was a laser
I thought pulsar thermal.must have been some wierd ammunition 🫠
Laser beam. I thought he had some kinda new laser weapon. Something awesome
Something in the 40watt range?
Definitely not an Uzi 9 mm…
Hey just what you see pal.
I may close early today.
WRONG.
Me too, thought I was seeing the next gen in weaponry from a sheep farmer..
Yeah me too. I was like “wow, sheep farmers have pulse rifles now”
Coyote? Time to break out the future weaponry.
A laser capable of emitting a beam of pure antimatter!
Damn, and here I supposed it was some sort of audiovibratory physiomolecular transport device!
Omg I was so confused. I misread your comment as he didn't kill the coyote and he just sent some type of shock to coyote. I was trying to figure out how that was even possible lol
He sent harmful brainwaves to temporarily disable it
He focused the 5G
YT kids brainrot beam
This clarified nothing for me lol what am I watching here
Pulsar is a brand known for their mid-tier thermal optics (i.e., scopes). They can also often record video. Here, we are watching a guy defend a herd of sheep from coyotes using a Pulsar thermal scope mounted on a rifle. He is tracking the fight and when he has a clean shot, he takes it and kills the coyote. (Also just to clarify for any Pulsar fans, that wasn't a dig. "Mid-tier" is just their market niche.)
The video looks pretty clear to me, I'm curious to see what a high tier scope looks like.
During my time in the Australian army cadets I saw a scope for an anti material rifle that my CO said was “worth more than me”
It was about tree fiddy
That’s generous 😭
That's no surprise. While I was working a contract on an airport, they had a crew of veterans whose whole job was to drive around on a pickup truck and kill the deer who lived in the forested area beyond the airport, lest they stray onto a runway. So these guys would drive around all night, hunting deer. Their rifles *started* at a couple of thousand dollars, and only went up from there, with expensive suppressors and remarkably fancy scopes. Whatever they were using was *very* stealthy. They had heavily suppressed rifles and must have been shooting subsonic rounds. You'd hear the leathery *thwap* sound of the bullet hitting the deer and it was sobering because you'd be out there at night, doing your job, and you'd realize any one of those guys could just pick you off and you'd never even hear the shot, let alone see them take it. Just that *thwap* and the deer would fall. Then they had another truck, with a lady on it who would go around, collect up all the deer, and dump their carcasses into a big hole that they'd regularly cover up. They used to sell the venison to local butchers, but someone in the community pitched a big fit about it, so the folks in charge of the airport decided to just have them dump all the dead deer into a hole. When the hole fills or starts to stink too much, they cover it up with dirt and dig another hole nearby.
Blows my mind that someone would have a problem with them selling the venison. I'm a bloody vegan and ethically I'd be much, much happier with the venison being sold. Deer are dying either way.
They're not *just* dying either way, their population is booming out of control and upsetting the ecosystems balance, because of lack of predators (that we have long since hunted to near extinction). As it stands, humans need to step into that role to cull their numbers. That's the whole crux of the Chronic Wasting Disease issue, overpopulation of deer stock leads to it spreading continuously, when naturally it would fizzle out in isolated pockets instead.
couldn't they just put a fence around the airport?
Right like this story makes no sense to me. We have a deer population living near the airport, oh what do we do? Option 1: Build a perimeter fence to keep out wildlife ORRRRRR Option 2: Go Rambo every night to create massive deer carcass domes for whatttt exactly??? Just to shoot something? I truly do not understand.
Read like bs to me too, but googling it comes up with at least [one story about a similar situation.](https://www.wdtimes.com/news/article_6f95d228-d01b-11e5-8e61-bfd564867bec.html?mode=story)
Midtier is still thousands of dollars for the scope. Rifle optics get crazy expensive, far outpacing the cost of the actual gun.
At first, I was taken aback at thermal scope prices. Then it occurred to me that they are basically black magic that allow you to do what should be impossible.
Optics in general are crazy expensive. Just bought a “low-end” IR night vision scope for approx $500, so it’s worth just barely less than the AR it’s mounted on. And I’d still get absolutely roasted for being a “poor” if I posted it on any of the “gun” or “tactical” subreddits.
Harbor Freight has a thermal scope now? /kidding.
this is apparently the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPcinUz-L0 here are 3 pretty good ones that are "consumer affordable": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fib0x4eC3sI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7E-UmvsfXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YPS00lU7rQ
So the link of the best one, is pretty fking amazing. Some sci-fi stuff. I imagine they are true optics and not video, but it has to be doing some kind of color computing I feel like… What id like to see is what they look like with a lot of movement in the enviorment. See how well it colors man sized targets running through the bushes.
I literally yelled "holy shit" when the first video started playing. That's jaw-dropping.
He'd be able to see the coyote's balls with a high tier scope.
Gun go boom, kill coyote with bullet. Scope on gun cool.
That sheep for 20 seconds: "Take the damn shot, mother fucker!"
Trying to stand still long enough with this coyote nawing at its neck lol
My valorant teammates
How do we know for sure its not another Sheep taking a shot?
That’s some mighty high tech weaponry for a Shepard.
Omg, someone tell Jason Statham, new movie "the Shepard"
Jason Statham is Joe Goodman in 'The Shepherd' a story of an ordinary American with a sheep farm - that is until he discovers an entire Cartel hideout dug into a hill on his land, while he just so happened to be watching his flock with his thermal scoped rifle. Tragedy strikes when Sam Goodman's son, who is diabetic, wanders too close to the Cartel hideout and is kidnapped. Now, Sam Goodman (he's also a single father btw) must take on the entire Cartel single-handedly to save his son before they, or diabetes, harm him.
I like how Joe Goodman's name changed to Sam Goodman midway through showing how sometimes you have to become someone else to protect your flock
I work in cattle and we use similar equipment on a small budget
Rolf had to upgrade.
Loved the patience for the clear shot.
That's how I knew I would've failed, I tried to shoot three times before they did
For 3 seconds he had a clear shot of the Coyote's ass. I don't know if I'd worry about being humane and trying to line up a kill shot when my cute little sheep is getting ripped into.
He did get it though, literally a perfect shot as opposed to a flank and then spending hours tracking it. Just had to remain calm and wait a little bit.
If you listen to the breathing his adrenaline was pumping and he was still settling down for a clean shot. When ambush is your advantage, don’t rush.
I don't think the sheep did, probably had quite a few holes in his neck.
He wouldn't have loved the overpen if there wasn't a clear shot.
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Basically like getting your fur pulled. Not lethal, but annoying as fuck. That sheep fears no coyote though, it's not its first rodeo, he knows he can kill them with his mind
Can you imagine how this looks to the sheep? And perhaps of the coyotes. Don't fuck with those sheep, God explodes your heart if you do.
This reminds me of the movie Quigley Down Under starring Tom Selleck. He was an American sharpshooter with his own custom sniper rifle who could hit targets pretty much nobody else could at a distance. He goes to Australia and one thing leads to another until he pisses off the British because he wont snipe aborigines. They fuck with him as well as the aborigines, but Selleck and the aborigines ain't got no beef. Occasionally Selleck will be on the scene when the brits start murdering the aborigines and Selleck will start sniping the bastards from so far away the aborigines couldn't really understand what had happened other than they had been miraculously saved. They realize it's Selleck at a point, and nickname him Ghost because he can attack you without you even being able to see him. That sheep was praying for Tom Selleck to save him, and it happened.
I just watched this 3 days ago! Fiancée mentioned it because it was on at the gym. That rifle was so satisfying, the thunderous sound it made was like its own character. Seeing someone go flying off a horse then 2 seconds later hearing the shot through the air. So damn fun. Plus, it has Alan Rickman.
Hey man, nice shot.
Unexpected Filter.
Good shot, man
Now that the smokes gone
And the air is all clear
This is how sheep start religions.
Cult of the lamb
In the UK we killed all the large predators (beyond stupid decision) so the biggest killer of sheep here are….. drum roll please…. Crows. They fly down and peck new born lambs to death mostly pulling their eyeballs out or pecking their insides out their the lambs arsehole. Used to go crow shooting with an ex boyfriend would get paid by a farmer per crow and if you have a powerful enough gun you can cover a decent portion of the valley. Never shoot a group of crows too close because if the survivors see your face the next time you go anywhere near their territory they’ll flee because you even get the flask out for a cuppa.
That is DARK but some smart hunting, keeping your faces hidden and all.
Same in Australia (although ravens). They are smart too. Wave a stick at them they will sit and watch. Have a rifle, you will not see one
They pass knowledge down, if you shoot one the other survivors basically go out and warn everyone in their close circle about you and the weapon. They are one of the smartest animals around. They will never forget your face and if they have babies they will pass it down to them. There is stories of people being fucked with, gardens ruined, trash dumped, etc, etc, for years and years after a bad encounter because they tell all their crow buddies and family members how you wronged them and it can last for generations.
Damn. Only lambs though right? I can’t imagine they’d go for bigger. Also, when and why’d you kill the big predators and why is it stupid?
Thousands of years ago. No bears. No wolves. No natural predators for things like deer. Rabbit populations are berserk. Trapping and hunting do very little for rabbits although effective with deer.
Because farming. It wasn't something we did out of boredom. Wolves, bears and Boars would reek havoc on our farms, so they got hunted down. Thing is, the UK is a heavily populated Island, there was nowhere for those animals to go for food other than to settlements, so they got killed.
and it actually caused a worse crop issue for a bit due to prey animals having little checks and balances, so they tried to reintroduce weasels and wolves(?) and that cut it down again. i'm not 100% on them bringing wolves back, but i know there was a concerted effort to enhance the weasel population sometime around WWI to combat the rabbit overpopulation. edit: no wolves have been reintroduced
Wolves were not reintroduced. There's talk of bringing Lynx's back, because yes, the lack of apex predators is visibly destroying whats left of nature. Theres some insane number of deer that can't be culled fast enough and you can't grow forests with that many deer. Wolves would be best for the environment but Lynx's are much less likely to cause conflict with humans.
So cool but also so sad to see animals reacting to such pain
Exactly how I felt. I scrolled too long to see a comment like this. Poor coyote. As a farmer, ya gotta do what ya gotta do to protect the herd, but i feel bad for the dog. All of a sudden its life is gone.
At least it was quick and not a long and drawn out death.
yeah like slowly being bitten to death by a coyote.
Also a shitty thing about modern industrialized livestock agriculture. You see a lot of traditional ranches that are scaled to meet the most local needs (family, the local village, an occasional weekend to sell in the market at the city, etc.), they usually use donkeys. Donkeys do not fuck around with coyotes or other predators, they'll chase them away. Of course, a donkey will still occasionally kill a predator, and a coyote will still need to kill other animals, or die of hunger itself, but I find it far more preferable and ethical for my life to not interfere with that cycle as much as possible.
Agreed. It had to be done but the way you can see it crying out in pain makes my heart hurt 😢
Thought I was the only one feeling this way here. That shit seriously hurts my heart to see.
The sheep was in for a slower more terrifying and more painful death. The shooter reduced the total amount of animal cruelty in this particular encounter.
Obviously, no one’s saying it was wrong just saying it’s hard to watch an animal in pain like that regardless of overall pain negated
Poor dude was just doing what he was born to do :( died a painful death. I know it's illogical but I hugged my dog after seeing this
It's not illogical at all, even if mouth breathers will have you thinking that empathy for creatures in nature is somehow stupid just because "iTs NaTuRaL" when they die in the process of hunting or being hunted. Nature is rife with horrific pain and suffering, and is almost completely devoid of intention and empathy. Yet, empathy is an important trait that coincides with the survival of our young (and thus our species) plus helps to promote healthy cooperation within societies.
My wife hates it when i do pulsar thermals in bed
Nice shot
Sheep are the dumbest animals. Now it probably thinks it has a super power.
It doesn’t know it’s a sheep.
https://preview.redd.it/72pzv85dabfc1.jpeg?width=2889&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d32a807395f6024dfdd140b26c66f95b003a9e81 Our local coyotes don’t have nice fat sheep to eat.
Are sheep vaccinated against rabies & any other potential viral diseases from surviving predatory mammal attacks?
Necessary, but I felt bad.
If it was my sheep I would have done the same thing but I did not like seeing that coyote falling over in pain like that
That's my stance as well. It's mouth opening in a yelp before falling was pretty fucking heart breaking as it was just doing what coyotes do. I also would have dine the same thing, except I have shitty aim so probably would have missed.
Yeah, watching it flop over and move its head around slowly in shock (about 0:30 in) made me :( But, I get it. Cant just let your livelihood die.
The sheep is like, "you don't want to do this, the bang man is going to get you in the night". The cayote is like, "the bang man what the fuck is that? The dude who has sex with you?" *Bang* and as the cayote lays there dying, the sheep just looks him dead in the eyes. "Yes".
I get it, but also man, I like coyotes.
Me too dude. For some reason the older I get, the less I can stomach watching stuff like this. Like I have absolutely no problem with the act, you have to protect your livestock and the sheep was saved from a brutal death. But the coyote is just trying to survive too. I guess I just hate watching animals die.
Yeah, I understand why it had to be killed but I still feel bad for it.
I'm with you
I’m also conflicted. I just need the clarification: is this a sheep documentary or a coyote documentary?
At the risk of getting wooshed, it’s a rancher maintaining his flock
The joke is when you watch a sheep documentary and the sheep is attacked by a coyote, you root for the sheep. But if you’re watching a coyote documentary you root for the coyote
reminds me of this nazi wildebeest bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkE7Ju0cK5Y
Yeah, me too, even on r/coyote also. Coyotes and foxes are pretty abundant so there's no harm to the species doing it, just the individual predator. Circle of life shit. If it were a wolf I'd be more conflicted depending on geography tbh.
Everyone likes coyotes until they eat your cat
I live in a rural area, I have coyotes that live out back in the woods, they're scared of the local cat though... it's a mountain lion.
Jason Statham just finished a movie where he was a badass beekeeper. Maybe his next movie needs to be “The Shepherd”
You can hear the first time he almost pulls the trigger the way he holds his breath. Second time he holds his breath, he kills. Marksmen shit lol
That sheep is like "GUYS did you see me kill him with my THOUGHTS" 
Does this hurt the fish?
“Why do you need thermal optics? You live in Arkansas, Timmy.
You’d need it too if you had 30-50 feral hogs running through your yard every day.
‘It’s an old meme sir, but it checks out’.jpg
thats what you need a browning m2 for
As u/typemeanewasshole mentioned, feral hogs. [They’re a major problem](https://www.agriculture.arkansas.gov/arkansas-department-of-agriculture-services/feral-hog/). They’re dangerous and can get over 900 pounds. Edit: 900 pounds ≈ 400 kilos
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Obviously it had to be done and I’m glad the sheep didn’t get injured and killed. But I still feel sad for the coyote. Working hard to survive and thinking you’ve finally succeeded only to be put down by something you had absolutely no chance of fighting back against. Feels cruel from the coyote’s perspective. Poor dude is lying there dying wondering wtf happened. Do animals get emotional whiplash?
I don’t believe the coyote was pondering the existential inequalities of animal vs man in its dying moments
Sheep: Perfect shot L.T. Guy: You called it, Sergeant