Wolfman got my deer ...

[LV2HUNT]

Usually with Yotes and Foxes there is a lot of hair all strewn about as well. I cannot see that in the photo either.

[Rick Butler]

My son shot a 5 point buck a few years ago so we gutted it and dragged it back to the cabin.  Went back 30 mins. later and there was not a trace of a gut pile left, nothing, you would never have known we cleaned out a deer in that spot.

[PhilNY]

We have plenty of coyotes around here and that is fairly common where I hunt. So many start howling sometimes once it gets dark that I get out of there as quick as I can. They make me nervous. Two years ago I had a deer stripped overnight like that but there were quite a few tracks and knaw marks on the carcass.

[highpoint forge]

I hung up a giant old Tom I shot last turkey season in a tree. His feet were 5 feet up in the air, and the next day his guts had vanished. He was clean as a whistle inside. Breast meat 100% intact. Not a drop of blood anywhere or a scrap of innards to be found.

Any ideas? sorry for the hijack......

[Keefer]

Dave,

  About 8 years ago my buddy arrowed 3 does up here on the Eastern Shore of Md.He brought one deer out that night that he found and decided to look next morning with myself as a helper tracking the other 2...I found his two arrows and we followed the other two blood trails and what a mess that was cause the deer were all shot out of the same stand that night and the deer crossed paths a few times...We went about 100 yards and I see this deer all tore up and I said Bruce there it is and He said no that is an old one someone else must of shot..He stayed on the blood trail and I walked over to look at it and Dave it looked like a Grizzly bear had an all you can eat buffet on that deer and as I looked around that blood trail lead right back to the one my buddy was following so it was his deer and it was a very fresh kill...He shot it about 5:30 that evening and we found it around 8:30 next day...All we could smell was Fox urine around there...We don't have wolves up here but some have seen a Coyote here and there but very rare...We laugthed and thought Man that Fox must of went and got his family and had an all you could eat buffet and probally sitting in a den with a toothpic saying "Hey dog" that was some good eats we had lastnight...        ...Your photo reminded me of the one he shot..Keefer's <><

I had the yotes go into the chest cavity of a doe I shot last monday afternoon. They ate the heart, the lungs, most of the right side rib cage, and about 1/2 of the right front shoulder. They did all that in under 2 hours! Luckily, I still got most of my deer.

Sorry they ate all yours.

Bisch

[Shedrock]

That can for sure happen with coyotes. Most are in their family groups yet, mom, dad, and an average of 6-8 pups,(which are adult size now), can finish up a deer in no time.

[stujay]

unbelieveable and all in one night. Now I really don't like them coyotes!!

[Hooper]

Wow, that is something. Sorry for your lose.

[NOMAD88]

Makes ya want to start exterminating...I mean hunting coyotes doesn't it?

[Jake Diebolt]

Coyotes are eminent scavengers. I'm not really surprised at all. I've got quite a few around here. I'm hoping I don't have the same problem if I get one...

[dave19113]

WTF......  :mad:

[imhntn]

We have lost one to coyotes this year too.  They just got the hindquarters out of this one.  Brother put a stick in the arrow entry to show me where the hit was when he found the deer.

[Big Ed]

Natural way of survival. It is unfortunate you did not recover the deer in time.

[hitman]

I shot a bear once in Maine and left him overnight. J ust got the front part of him.