deer stolen

[suffolk_mopar]

well, sunday evening i shot a huge doe. i saw it drop in the feild behind the house. went in the house to finish building my arrows. bout 30 minutes later went to go get my doe and only found blood and drag marks. guess the coyotes were more attentive than i this time. such a waste!!!

[hightop_hunter]

happened to my dad this season he shot a buck and couldn't recover it that night the next day we went looking only to find a big cougar standing over top of it. shame we couldn't recover the meet we did recover the head after the cougar had left. its a bitter sweet trophy as it was also his first downed deer.

[rdoggsilva]

Them yotes are smarter and more opportunistic then we give them credit for. out here, if you get a deer you better bit the yotes to your kill or no venison.

[Izzy]

[Ground Hunter]

There are a lot of 2 legged yotes.

[Night Wing]

Did you find any coyote dog tracks where the deer was downed?

Like someone else said, some 2 legged coyotes wear "boots" and leave an unmistakable track.

[mike hall]

Originally posted by Ground Hunter:
There are a lot of 2 legged yotes.

ha yep.... I think yotes usually eat the rear end where it lays.
bummer man.

[flippnsticks]

Originally posted by Night Wing:
Did you find any coyote dog tracks where the deer was downed?

Like someone else said, some 2 legged coyotes wear "boots" and leave an unmistakable track.

thats my guess to

[ChuckC]

yup, 2-legged, especially within an hour's time, or you have a big cat there and don't know it.  Either way, there should be a pile of bones at the end of the trail.
ChuckC

[KentuckyTJ]

Yikes!

It could have easily been yotes that fast and they do not always go for the back end first! Here is a pic of one I shot this year and found in about an hour. The yote/s went in through the exit hole which was a good thing because they did not ruin much and I still got most of my meat.

 

Bisch

[Mudd]

That sucks!

I'm sorry that all your meat was taken by anything or anyone.

God bless,Mudd

[ChuckC]

Bisch. .  but the deer carcass was still there in your case.  I have never seen the coyotes devour the bones and all after dragging a deer away somewhere.

ChuckC

[riverrat 2]

They are quick to the kill no doubt. A deer processer/butcher I was talking with says he sees
it all the time. Even as little as an hour after a kill,the yotes can get there fill. During our gun season,he say's the gun shot is like a dinner bell to there ears!

[Stumpkiller]

I found a bloody spot on the ground a little bigger than a deer bed surrounded by deer hair - enough to fill a hat.  Not a scrap of hide or bone.  I don't think coyotes drag a carcass, but instead disassemble it into carryable bits.

[Pat B]

If you saw the doe fall why didn't you get her right them?

[mikebiz]

Originally posted by Pat B:
If you saw the doe fall why didn't you get her right them?

I agree.  I must say that this was a pretty odd thing to do.  Not only did you lose your deer, but you now have more fuel to throw on the "coyotes are evil" fire.  Next time wait that 1/2 hour on stand and retrieve the deer promptly.  It's your responsibility.

[Jim Wright]

I cannot imagine Coyotes simply dragging a deer off to the point that it is "gone" without leaving any remnant of the carcass but I can easily imagine somebody doing it.

[Mint]

Could the deer have gotten up again and moved off a ways?

[Ryan M]

I am kind of confused as to why you would leave the deer out there while you went inside. Is this commonplace?