what a friggin day !
was driving early this AM for work (in NH) and come around a corner , i see 2 coyotes in the road and on the bank.
Then i catch eyes out of the corner of my eye on the opposite side of the road by the guardrails. I notice its a deer and lock up the brakes thinking its gonna jump in the road , but it doesn't and i end up stopped right beside it at 5 yards and realize its a nice buck !
So i roll down the window and it just stands there !
I pick up my jaw and realize not only is this a beauty of a buck but its injured. The buck was hobbling and fell over the guardrails , i grab a light and walk over the bank just in time to see it fall a few times and see that its whole rear end is covered in blood !
I go up and down the road thinking it was hit by a car but couldn't find any sign of it what-so-ever , and the coyotes were following this deer close !
By the looks of him i knew he wasn't going to make it long so i went and finished up some work and came back thinking i could at least salvage the horns
The whole time i was thinking "what a way to go , death by coyotes"
I went back a couple hours later and cut the blood trail and tracks and started tracking it (coyote tracks everywhere !), then i see movement and realize its a dam coyote !
Big blonde female , she see me and started pacing back and forth and then sat down ...
I figured he must be close and sure enough , there he was laying in the brook STILL ALIVE !
They had been trying to finish him but couldn't get at him because most of his body was in the water . He was not doing good and i sat there and watched while he took his last breathes :'(
-I would go a year without a buck if it meant i never had to see that again , IT SUCKED !
sad thing to see for sure , such an majestic animal die like that ....-
i pulled him from the river and checked him over pretty good and couldn't find anything but bite marks and his hind quarters had been hit by the yotes pretty hard , i would say almost positively the coyotes were 100% to blame for his death...
There was only a few inches of snow and this deer was a big bodied buck but was pretty run down and old ...
He was probably 180-190 pounds today but i would say 250 in August , he had the biggest feet of any buck i v ever seen !
definitely sucky situation ...
anybody that doesn't believe that coyotes kill deer are ignorant
I was only half-a$$ hunting for them this year and mostly fishing but i think its time to kills some coyotes !
was driving early this AM for work (in NH) and come around a corner , i see 2 coyotes in the road and on the bank.
Then i catch eyes out of the corner of my eye on the opposite side of the road by the guardrails. I notice its a deer and lock up the brakes thinking its gonna jump in the road , but it doesn't and i end up stopped right beside it at 5 yards and realize its a nice buck !
So i roll down the window and it just stands there !
I pick up my jaw and realize not only is this a beauty of a buck but its injured. The buck was hobbling and fell over the guardrails , i grab a light and walk over the bank just in time to see it fall a few times and see that its whole rear end is covered in blood !
I go up and down the road thinking it was hit by a car but couldn't find any sign of it what-so-ever , and the coyotes were following this deer close !
By the looks of him i knew he wasn't going to make it long so i went and finished up some work and came back thinking i could at least salvage the horns
The whole time i was thinking "what a way to go , death by coyotes"
I went back a couple hours later and cut the blood trail and tracks and started tracking it (coyote tracks everywhere !), then i see movement and realize its a dam coyote !
Big blonde female , she see me and started pacing back and forth and then sat down ...
I figured he must be close and sure enough , there he was laying in the brook STILL ALIVE !
They had been trying to finish him but couldn't get at him because most of his body was in the water . He was not doing good and i sat there and watched while he took his last breathes :'(
-I would go a year without a buck if it meant i never had to see that again , IT SUCKED !
sad thing to see for sure , such an majestic animal die like that ....-
i pulled him from the river and checked him over pretty good and couldn't find anything but bite marks and his hind quarters had been hit by the yotes pretty hard , i would say almost positively the coyotes were 100% to blame for his death...
There was only a few inches of snow and this deer was a big bodied buck but was pretty run down and old ...
He was probably 180-190 pounds today but i would say 250 in August , he had the biggest feet of any buck i v ever seen !
definitely sucky situation ...
anybody that doesn't believe that coyotes kill deer are ignorant
I was only half-a$$ hunting for them this year and mostly fishing but i think its time to kills some coyotes !
