Ouch

[sampotter]

Found this 2yr old dead yesterday while pulling stands. Had him alive on a trail cam @5:30 am on 12/12. Late that same afternoon there was a suspicious pickup creeping up and down the road not 100 yards from where I found him. No obvious wounds, but his hindquarters were eaten. A few minutes later I found the skeleton of a yearling buck 50 yards away from the first one. Woulda liked to still have them both around.

[Red]

that really sucks thats a nice buck and wouldve been pretty impressive next year

[ny hunter]

That does suck.I agree he would have been real nice next year.

[132 eight pointer]

What a shame for those guys to be wasted like that.I hope if poaching occured you can somehow put a stop to it.Poaching is bad enough but wasting an animal like that is worse in my opinion. Good luck.

[Lever action]

Ditto

[fasteddie]

I do it myself but laugh when we say that it's too bad that we find dead deer laying someplace and that we would like to have been able to shoot it .

That's a nice 8 point . Thanks for posting .

[13BVET]

If there was no obvious wounds, I'd be concentrating on decimating the coyote population. The hind quarters being torn up, is a sure sign of coyotes.

[132 eight pointer]

Can coyotes take down a healthy buck like that ? Or would a hind end wound followed by animals scavenging on the carcass be more likely ? I know coyotes can kill a wounded deer but I didn't think an adult healthy deer would be killed by coyotes.

[Woodsman20]

There was another post flying around where a large buck on trail cam was attacked by some coyotes. I think every situation is a little different as I have aso seen deer avoid coyotes quite easily.

[13BVET]

Can coyotes take down a healthy buck like that ? Or would a hind end wound followed by animals scavenging on the carcass be more likely ? I know coyotes can kill a wounded deer but I didn't think an adult healthy deer would be killed by coyotes.

If a deer is surrounded by them, I would imagine that it's definitely possible. There's no question that coyotes would go for the rear end, rather than risk getting gored by the antlers. I've found deer torn up by coyotes, that definitely were young, healthy deer.

[sampotter]

There isn't enough of this deer that has been eaten for it to have been coyotes.

[13BVET]

When I lived in Fishkill, I literally watched a coyote kill a fawn. He/she ate a portion of the hind quarters, and actually drug it underneath the steps where I lived, and I assume, stored it for future use. At least that's been my experience.

[TreeGuy]

I think I saw more suspicions pickups than deer this year ! Maybe his wife hit it and he went back to collect so he could tell his buddy's he shot it.... ?

I've found 5 coyote killed deer so far since season started, and there is usually just a pile of bones and fur, but I'm no expert

[First-light]

Here is a 6 pt that I found. Coyote tracks everywhere. The deer wasn't laying there more than a week.

[13BVET]

I'm not stating one way, or the other. When the episode was posted on the site, however, when the buck was killed by coyotes, at the end, where the coyotes were gone, only a portion of the hind quarters were eaten. Obviously, it would depend upon how long the deer was there. I just don't see how a cotote, or even 2 coyotes, are going to eat a whole deer in a short time. I know that I shot a doe on Ridgefield Farm in Fishkill one year, and ended up having to search for it the next morning. The coyotes had gotten to it overnight, as there were tracks in the snow around it. They only took a little bit of the hind quarters, and that was it. As to why they constantly target the hind quarters-who knows?

[Lawdwaz]

Might be a good place for the DEC Dudes to hang out one of the deer decoys??

To catch a thief......................................