Any ideas ?

[turkeyfeathers]

My brother was hunting in 8G this morning. There's a very large stand of pines near his blind. Deer always get pushed here. He never walks thru them but today he did. He found 6 deer skeletons of apparent winter kill from last year.

Here's where it gets weird. He saw a cherry brandy bottle in the pines. Went to pick it up to take home and throw it out. It was marking a 12-14 foot trench about 8" wide and 6" deep covered in pine needles to hide it. Inside the trench was a white lye like or moist loose type of white powder. We have no idea on what the heck it is. He did scoop a small bit of the material Hopefully my buddy can test it for results.

Don't think the dead deer skeletons are related but you never know.

Any thoughts ?

[Paula]

That is odd, seems like the rain would have washed it all away unless it was fairly new

[Billdogge]

Crazy.

[BBDEric]

Well maybe a zombie trap

[Four Season Whitetail's]

Sounds like maybe someone hiding a kill-Bury site. The powder is prob the stuff the guys use here on Ft Drum..They leave the deer off the road and pour that powder on it...Couple 3-4 days the deer is all but gone.

[Larry]

I would have it checked and call the dec. I would like to know what town I also hunt 8g and can you keep us posted. one more thing its kind of odd to have 6 deer die together as a winter kill around here no real deer yards like up north

[Lawdwaz]

Is it near a home/farm or trail?  Could be where some home-butcher is dumping his carcasses after the deed is done.

 

OR...........could be dead humans in there??

[jim335]

I think it's powdered lime that they use to dump on dead animals to make them decompose faster. I'd be careful with it, could be poison. I would report it to DEC.  8" wide isn't very wide to dump a carcass. It's basically wide enough for a shovel. Maybe that's what killed the deer.

[WingNut]

It's obviously to small to bury anything in.  I would tend to think it is more like a feed troth with some sort of attractant, like "Deer Cane".  Or maybe bait and poison for Coyotes. 

Edited December 7, 2015 by WingNut

[growalot]

Son bought an old farm house...did a demo and in the rafters found a open 20#

 bag of arsnic...be careful handling that powder...It was a white powder as well....

Edited December 7, 2015 by growalot

[Elmo]

Voodoo.

[Doc]

The property wouldn't happen to belong to a farmer with crop damage would it? He may be running his own version of deer damage control....lol.