I Shot a Deer, Mother Nature Took it Back

[jomama]

That really sucks.

[Huntrdfk]

We only have 2 days left in the season, and one of them will be snowstorm. I am content that I did what I needed to do......The coyotes just found him before I did. Bobman, there is snow on the ground here....There was nothing there but coyotes. I went back today and looked more. I found a portion of the hide from the rear end buried under a log. I looked for three hours trying to find remains.....nothing. Nothing but Coyote tracks, blood and hair. I do think that their is a chance that at least part of the carcass is in the stream.....Under ice. I will be looking there again in the spring as soon as the ice is out.
I keep coming back to this....I am amazed at what they were able to accomplish I a relatively short period of time.

David

[jtwalsh62]

God will feed them as well as he will feeds you. nothing goes to waste

[Sean B]

That's too bad David, at least you had the thrill of the hunt.  I had the same thing happen to me several times as well as a few friends.  You did the right thing by backing out.  I know how hard it can be for an opportunity up there.

[Guru]

That stinks bud!! Cool experience, but stinks!!!

[Roadkill]

Lost a doe antelope in September. Amazing how fast they reduce it to zip.  Left me a stomach, some hide, coup,e bones and a memory.  They gotta eat too, but, they are on my wanted list this year.  I have two full bodies waiting to mount the ones I find,

[tippit]

David,
The one that the coyotes eat of mine...it was like they buzz sawed her down the middle and left the down side shell.  I went back in the spring and found a small leg bone left over.  Made a knife out of it to skin a coyote if I ever shoot one.

Oh, it did stink...literally like a dog kennel that hadn't been cleaned in months!

[Mark Normand]

Sorry that happened to you. I sure wish we had about 75% less yotes, I could live with that. There's just too dang many now.

I shot a doe once out of a small group one morning and within seconds of the scattering deer two yotes came by under the stand. I couldn't get them to stop for a shot, they were on the hunt casting back and forth like a bird dog, caught the blood trail and took off at a dead run. Got down within seconds myself, jogged over about 75 yds, spotted dead deer, and they had pulled the tail off and started in. Musta ran off when heard me coming. And they never made a sound the whole time.

[elkken]

Years ago on a deer hunt in Idaho a buddy of mine shot a doe late in the day and it was a liver hit. I talked him into waiting until morning to retrieve it ... when we got there in the AM all we found was a red spot in the snow and a hide and bones. We never did find the head. It was amazing how cleaned up those coyotes had left that deer carcass. My buddy wanted to shoot me after that, luckily he shot a buck the next day.

[chall]

sorry they got it before you did.

In November I called in coyotes everyday with my deer calls. Which makes one really careful about what kind of a shot one would take at a deer. I am still frustraited that I did not get a clean shot at any of the coyotes. One day I saw two groups of about 12 coyotes in each group meet in a picked bean field, they did not like each other. It is no wonder that most of the deer moved out of that area.  Every sunset there are so many howling nearby that they are impossible to count.