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Post by caveman on Dec 23, 2017 20:48:08 GMT -5
Last night I shot a big doe at 530. Walked back to the house to put the muzzloader away and grab a knife. Returned to spot of shot half an hour later and began to blood trail. She made it about 70 yards where I found her piled up just inside the woods. There was fur everywhere and yotes yipping and yapping downstream. Sure enough they had eaten her hind end around the anus. Probably 2 pounds of flesh gone. Within 45 minutes!!! I had no idea they would get on a kill so fast. Were the coyotes already stalking my deer? It was a herd of 15 deer. 3 bucks and 12 doe. Did they just smell the blood and come running to the table? Anyone else have experience with yotes getting on a kill within an hour?
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Post by stevein on Dec 23, 2017 21:17:51 GMT -5
I had a buddy that hunted elk out west in griz country. The outfitter told him that the Grizzlys would start their search as soon as they heard a shot. Could be the yotes have learned that there is at least a snack whenever someone shoots. Might be just a coincidence too.
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Post by swilk on Dec 23, 2017 21:38:18 GMT -5
Creatures of opportunity...the smell or the sound caught their attention and they took advantage of the situation.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 23, 2017 22:00:21 GMT -5
Not coyotes, but I had buzzards do that to a doe i shot this year. Within 30 minutes or so they were circling. By the time I got down they had eaten around the rear end and around the eyes.
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Post by darinfry on Dec 23, 2017 22:45:08 GMT -5
My brother shot a buck once by his house. He field dressed it and we loaded it up and went back to the house. As soon as we pulled in the driveway we could hear the coyotes on the gutpile. It had only been a three or four minute drive back to the house
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Post by raymar on Dec 23, 2017 23:11:03 GMT -5
They can follow the blood trail just as any dog would or just stumbled across it. Opportunity for any easy meal.
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Post by Pinoc on Dec 23, 2017 23:42:57 GMT -5
Makes a guy think twice about taking a nap in the woods.  |
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 23, 2017 23:56:42 GMT -5
Makes a guy think twice about taking a nap in the woods. If that’s the risk I run to get out of my house filled to the brim with females I’m willing to take it |
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Post by esshup on Dec 24, 2017 6:08:56 GMT -5
Sounds like there needs to be a coyote reduction plan put in place where you hunt.
I heard the same thing about Grizzlies in the wilderness areas of Wyoming. My cousin who lives there said that hunting in that area needs to be done in pairs. One guy field dresses, the other guy stands watch.
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Post by jimstc on Dec 24, 2017 6:47:57 GMT -5
Precisely the reason that during archery and muzzle loader I always have a 1911 on my belt.
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Post by beermaker on Dec 24, 2017 6:55:33 GMT -5
Not coyotes, but I had buzzards do that to a doe i shot this year. Within 30 minutes or so they were circling. By the time I got down they had eaten around the rear end and around the eyes. Same thing happened to me, but with crows. I already field dressed the deer and propped it up so blood would drain. I went to get the atv and came back to find several crows around the deer and both eyeballs missing. |
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Post by SFC (R) B on Dec 26, 2017 11:54:42 GMT -5
When I shot my bear this year in CO I had coyotes circling around in the woods within 15 minutes and they kept out there yipping until we got done skinning and left. A little creepy to be sure as there were probably at least 5 in the pack.
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Post by surveyor on Dec 26, 2017 12:35:46 GMT -5
Coyotes will come to the smell of fresh blood pretty quick if they are nearby. I had the hind end of a deer eaten a few years ago between loosing him around 10 am and finding him around 1 pm. Another time, I was tracking a wounded deer and a coyote popped out on the path right in front of me with his nose to the ground tracking the blood trail also. He took a slug to the chest! Another time I was skinning a coon down over a steep creek bank and a coyote came barreling down over the bank right beside me. I assume he was after the smell of fresh blood. Startled the crap out of me and the coyote once it realized I was there. That's one a guy will never forget!
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Post by 10point on Dec 26, 2017 15:52:27 GMT -5
Once had a coyote come about a minute or two after dropping a buck during archery season.
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