Now these were hungry coyotes !

[Nomad]

My friends in Montana, knocked down three antelopes ie pronghorns this past weekend  . Anywho , one was shot at last light and left over night , this is what was left . Yikes most I’ve seen gone here on a deer was a chunk out of his a$$ .

[Hock3y24]

I’ve had a deer bones after 12 hours overnight 2 years ago

[mowin]

My cousin shot a nice 18" 8 pt several years ago. Had to wait till morning to look.  Found the same thing.  Thing was picked clean.   Was the easiest drag we ever had. 

[jperch]

They even ate the face, I have not seen that here.  They have probably learned there that a late rifle shot means dinner bell.

[Pygmy]

Nice buck...Too bad he lost the cape...

[Fletch]

I’ve had a buck here I shot once left 7 hours overnight and nothing left but hide and bones. 3-4-5 yotes can make quick work of a deer. Other times I’ve seen them take days or more. I put a cam over a winter kill and had a pair visit that carcass for weeks. They would dig down into the snow and eat off it and lay around. Then not return for days.


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[chrisw]

Same here, a few years ago I shot a doe opening night, wasn't sure where the hit was so decided to wait a bit. Well it started pouring shortly after. I decided just to wait til the morning and do a body search. The next morning it was still pouring, I looked for an hour or so through a bunch of thick stuff. I expanded out to the more open woods and I almost stepped on a leg, separated from the body, it was the entire front shoulder with a piece of hide hanging from it. I looked and looked and never did find the rest of the body. It does not take them long.

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[Zag]

I know if I leave a deer till morning it’s guaranteed to be picked clean. 

[ny hunter]

Looks to be a nice one...Too bad ...

 

[Marion]

Well...it WAS a nice antelope

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[Steve D]

I have also seen a carcass dragged away and picked clean in 24 hrs. but a rule it takes a couple of days or so to pick it clean.

 That could also be a wolf kill. I believe parts of Montana are having some problems with wolves

https://www.mtpr.org/post/hunters-trappers-take-aim-limiting-montanas-wolf-population

They also have a population of mountain lions and grizzlies.

 Could have been any of the above.

[The_Real_TCIII]

Did they rule out piranhas?


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[Gencountyzeek]

Mmm...id like to yote hunt there!

[Nomad]

52 minutes ago, Gencountyzeek said:

Mmm...id like to yote hunt there!

They know a guy who’s high school, aged son bought a new pick up off the money he got from one year of trapping them ( many years ago )  . They have a pic of what looks like a long wood fence lining a road, it’s really the pelts hanging on a wire fence .

[Swamp_bucks]

My buddy shot s doe couple years ago and we waited until morning to track.  They had it down to bones.  Only thing on the head that was touch was a chunk missing out of an ear.  It's insane they are that much of the face.    Are there wolves in Montana?  Maybe that's what got ahold of it.

[Nomad]

Interesting , I’ve only had one buck that had a few chunks out of it, and that was off Hard Rd in Webster , there’s a senior living complex there now .

[LET EM GROW]

wow thats insane.. Weve seen them munched on some but nothing even close to this.. and we have a steady coyote population as well 

[Zag]

He was one from a few years ago. I know waiting till morning isn’t an option for me. I always cringe when I hear those words.

[catskillkid]

Coyotes picking clean a deer overnight is very common  in my area of the Catskills. I've had a few deer that I had bow shot in evenings and found in the morning devoured by coyotes. I'm now reluctant to shoot a deer close to sun down.

[biggamefish]

Remember they have wolves in montana too. I heard them when we where there in sept.