6 coyotes killing a buck!!

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SalemDawger

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Wow, I am watching Wild Extremes on the Men’s Channel right now and they just showed 5-6 coyotes surrounding and chasing a young (2.5 year old) white tail deer buck. The deer made a mad dash out onto a frozen lake and the coyotes chewed it up crippling but not killing it. The host, got a Conservation officer and they put it out of it’s misery. I think they must have scared off the coyotes or they would have killed it I am sure. Coyotes do kill deer, especially when they are packed up.
 
I see coyotes chasing deer all the time, year 'round. Never have seen them catch a deer, but why else would they chase them? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

Dan
 
I find deer kills on a regular basis in some places. It's interesting to read the sign sometimes. How they do it is a lesson in itself. Jimmie
 
I watched a pack of coyotes chasing a herd of cattle, they wound up tearing a tail off of a heifer and eating it! They will try anything.
Harvey7
 
Coyote pull down adult caribou up here in Newfoundland, and their calves are really taking a beating. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I saw the show too! I've seen this once on an adult doe. Six coyotes and they went about it in much the same way. My dad has seen the same thing on a different occasion. They're predators doing what predators do. Good footage on the show, wish I had recorded it.
 
I watch what I believe to be a coyote messing with a small herd of wild horses one time. The reason I say I believe it was is because of distance. I could not make out for sure whether it was a coyote or not. It was way to far away to be a ranch dog and was of similar size and shape. It seemed to be alone and was not really looking like it was attacking them, just running around them. The horses didn't seem too bothered but were aware of the dog with them. These are not ranch horses, they are in a wild horse area and have seen several of the herd that day before.

Since that day I have wondered, if it were a coyote for sure, why it was screwing around with those horses. If it were alone one could take it out and anytime they chose.

On a side note, my hunting parter went out alone one time and called one of the local wild stallions in with a distress call and the stallion seemed to want nothing other than to get after what ever it was causing the problem. I have called in deer before and would sure rather mess with one of them than a tesosterone filled wild horse.
 
Hymm, hopefully I will never be in a situation to watch such a thing. I am sorry but if I see a yote, I am going to shoot. I almost always pack a rifle with me, especialy when i am out and about.
 
A local lady and her husband were hunting deer in the mountains south of here that border Yellowstone Park and they observed a pack of wolves take down a deer across the canyon from them. By the time they got there all that was left was the ribcage and a nose. The deer and elk in the country around Yellowstone are just getting hammered. The hunters all see it and anyone that spends much time recreating around the Park see it. The only one that can't see it is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Can you imagine that?
 
What really breaks your heart is to see two coyotes take down a fawn with the doe trying to fight them off.
Definatly not a pretty sight. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
I seen a video where 5 or 6 yotes take a cub away from a mad momma black bear. I believe the video was called (Life of the coyote).
 
I watched two big yotes run a big Wt buck for about an hour one day,he kept stopping and kikin the crap out of em both so they finally ran off.The feds know exactly what the wolves are doin to the deer and elk herds,they just dont give a damn.The newest count shows the elk herds are down to half what they were in 94 when they released the wolves in yellowstone.
 
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Hymm, hopefully I will never be in a situation to watch such a thing. I am sorry but if I see a yote, I am going to shoot. I almost always pack a rifle with me, especialy when i am out and about.



Some interesting comments... when I saw the coyotes killing the doe I actually felt quite priveledged to see nature played out in front of me. I have witnessed first hand something that few will ever see. The day was very cold and the snow was deep. We were miles from anywhere in the deep forest. Took me back a couple hundred years in time... hard to explain. Sort of a spirtual thing I guess.
 
They for sure go after deer. I was bowhunting in Ohio during the peak of the rut. It was about 10:00 a.m and I had just made a few calls on the bleat can. No more than 2 minutes later, a yote can flying in and stopped right under my stand just looking around (for the deer I assume). I stuck him at 10 yards. He ran about 70 yards and went down, squirming and what not. I gave him an hour, got down out of my stand, and went over to where he went down. All I found was a pool of blood. I then hear a ruckus about 20 yards from me, he stood up in a thicket and took off with his tail between his legs. He was carrying the mail down into a creek bottom and up the other side. I then went home, figuring I'd give it longer to bleed out, and go back and get him. I went back to where I jumped him the first time around 3:00. I found a foot long section of his intestines (guess I had a gut shot). So he ran from that point without parts of his guts. Anyway, I followed the blood trail for about 100 yards and I lost it. I went up the other side where I had seen him run earlier that morning, but nothing. I looked for that thing til dark and never found him. I figure he crawled in a thicket and died. It wasn't for lack of trying though. I was upset I didn't find him.
That's my story.
I know one thing, I might give up on the can for deer hunting. Apparently I sound wounded.
 
I wonder why they chased off the coyotes and had a conservation offcier kill the deer? Did they take it home to eat it? If they didn't keep the meat they should have let the coyotes finish what mother nature had started.
 
Several years ago I watched a group of about 10 deer fending off a coyote. The group contained several does and fawns and a large buck. The deer were in a single column and they would take turns at heading the column and chasing the yote. The fawns stayed in the middle. Great fun watching the deer at the head of the column lower its head and charge the yote, then drop back and let another do the same.
 
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