deer stolen

[Tom Leemans]

Some 2 legged yotes got to an 18 pt buck my brother shot a few years back. All we found was the body minus the head. After 2 days of looking, he had to head home. I spotted it at the back edge of a cut corn field while driving a nearby gravel road. He was close to finding it. He just needed to go another 1/4 mile. Now it's on some slob's wall.

[Zradix]

???
THIS IS WEIRD.

[reddogge]

I think hunter error here. Saw deer drop and went in and built arrows for an hour? No trailing? What gives?

[Zradix]

Not to throw stones here but....

Didn't the post say "went in for an hour to make arrows" earlier?

Now says 30 mins.

I might be wrong.
  :confused:

Either way it sucks

[Bldtrailer]

Unless I see the deer drop I always wait at least 30min (even if it's in sight) I've had deer jump up and run out of sight. I have pushed my share of (pooly hit, liver) deer way to far that would have died in the first bed if left them alone for a few hours.  It's not the part of bow hunting we like to addmit to but it happens.  I've also had to come back the next morning(that's how the coyotes got two of the three deer) I saw the one from my tree stand the next morning and was able to walk right up to what was left of the buck I had shot the night before(nothing left but the head/neck shoulder it was laying on skin & bones) we're in it for the fun, coyotes make a living at it (they wiil gorage themselves and stash it then come back to refill(amazing) stripping a kill faster than I can type this.  

[Keefer]

Jerome,
 I had to do a double take on that pic..I was like what broadhead did he use to do that kind of damage?  :eek:

[Stump73]

The only reason I would have left it after seeing it fall would be to go back to get the four wheeler or help to drag it out.

[hardtimes]

I was hoping he would come back and answer some of the questions.

I always wait 30 mins after the shot if I do not see the deer go down. If I see it go down it is gutting time. I have lost two bucks while hunting public land. Both times my tracking job ended at a gut pile with no deer.

[Ground Hunter]

???????????

[Pointer]

I doubt that was yotes at work....you'd have found parts of your deer if it was

[Thumper Dunker]

Coyotes would of ate it on the spot. And it would take a bunch of them to leave nothing.
Two legged coyote got it. Or it got up and ran off.

[Kentucky Jeff]

Yeah, Ain't no coyote I've ever shot gonna drag a huge doe anywhere.  Hell, there ain't three coyotes anywhere going to drag a 140# deer anywhere.  They WILL chow down on it where it lies.

The biggest coyote I've ever shot (out of maybe 70 dogs) MIGHT go 35 lbs soaking wet.

[Kenkel]

Sounds like it got up and ran off to me.

[Mike Most]

Interesting Thread to say the least......  

[Hit-or-Miss]

I would feel better about losing a deer to a Coyote than I would a 2-legged Varmint! There is an SOB in my neighborhood who steals people's styrofoam 3D Deer targets out of their yards at night. My cousin (just down the street from me),lost a nice one a few years back. Those are not cheap! Thats why I won't buy one, because I have a strong hunch it will end up missing. Don't you just love dishonest people?

[Ground Hunter]

How does he cook that Styrofoam?  Must use one of those flavor injectors.

[BradLantz]

wild hogs ate my Dad's deer a few years back - rolled up hide/bones/head was all that was left. unreal

[Cyclic-Rivers]

That stinks.

You always should learn from your mistakes, If you dont Darwin usually eventually prevails.

Better luck next time.

[Montanawidower]

Wow... you guys are roasting this new guy.  What happened to "benefit of the doubt".   Just sayin'

I was taught as a kid to wait 30 minutes regardless of how hard they fall.  Over the years I've learned the exceptions to that rule... but maybe Mopar thought he was being prudent?  

Jeff

[don_h]

I was told to wait as well, but if it fell over while I was watching it, I don't know that I would go down the road and get some grub just to wait as taught. But to each their own, live and learn.