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chabouk wrote:Coyotes don't howl, but: still.

From the "almost never wrong, mostly right, sometimes incorrect, giver of all almost correct information in the universe - Wikipedia"

Communication

The calls a coyote makes are high-pitched and variously described as howls, yips, yelps, and barks. These calls may be a long rising and falling note (a howl) or a series of short notes (yips). These calls are most often heard at dusk or night, but may be heard in the day or in the middle of the day. Although these calls are made throughout the year, they are most common during the spring mating season and in the fall when the pups leave their families to establish new territories. When a coyote calls his pack together, he howls at one high note. When the pack is together, he howls higher and higher, and then they yip and yelp and also do a yi-yi sound very shrill with the howl.

Holy cow! Is Ruger on to something here!

I stopped at a LGS today after a range visit. The salesman pulled a new Ruger LCP out of a Ruger box with a label that said "LCP-TEX" Also, on the side of the box it was marked, "For sale to Texans only." Inside was a Ruger LCP with a Texas Star on the top of the slide near the rear sight, and a coyote howling with a full moon in the background near the front of the slide. On the sides it said, "Coyote Special." The were NOT decals, but screened onto the slide. If this is NOT a Ruger factory deal, then kudos to the savvy marketeer who thought this up. Sorry for the lousy cell phone pics.