Coyote eating fawn

okeytrapper

okeytrapper

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Wanted to share my bow hunting experience from yesterday.
Went out after some freezer meat on one of my favorite spots. I had actually missed a 25 yard shot on a deer! It started to heat up so I thought I would hunt my way back along a ridge that overlooks a very productive valley. I came up to the top and was looking down on a pond and saw something in the tall grass along the pond edge. I looked through my binocs and saw that it was a coyote. I could tell he was eating on something, but could not tell what it was. I watched for a second then I saw him pull on one of the legs, I realized it was a fawn deer that he had killed!
I decide to try to put the stalk on him. I had to cover a open hill side to get to him. I had some trees and brush at the pond edge on my side to put between me and the 'yote. I stalked to within 10 yards of him and could hear the bones crunching. I tried to get myself around the brush to get a shot and wouldn't you know it He spotted me! He crossed at the back of the pond and came over on my side , I tried to get low and draw but he got nervous and ran. I tried to stop him but he didn't want to hang around. I thought that he might circle downwind to find out what that wierd blob in the weeds was. So I got back up on the ridge and watched.In abot ten minutes he came in exactly downwind of the bushes I had been hiding in. He was prety nervous but not alarmed. The landowner had his tractor stuck in the mud where the creek ran into the pond. Just as I was really getting into this coyotes behaviour, I heard a truck coming, sure enough he did too and sceedaddled! It was the farmer coming to get his tractor out. I know I didn't get a shot or any exciting tale to tell you, I thought that this observation may come in handy someday though. Thanks for listening. - Okeytrapper.
 
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I realized it was a fawn deer that he had killed!




He may have killed it, but no way to know for sure. My point? Just because you see a coyote eating something, you can't assume he killed it.

That is why ranchers hate coyotes and buzzards. Every time they see one or the other eating a calf, they assume they killed it.
 
The blood was still coming out of the leg he was chewing on and I could see the wounds were it had been bitten to take it down. I can assure you, he killed it.
 
New York States' D.E.C. biologists have finally admitted that a primary source of food for coyotes is whitetail fawns.Especially true in the spring of the year.Hunters have tried to tell the D.E.C. biologists that for 25 years;they wouldn't listen. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I guarantee coyotes devestate whitetail fawns, and twice in the last ten years, I have seen coyotes cross the road with a fawn in its mouth.

That sounds like nothing, but if I see that in the road, imagine what is going on in the woods.

Its left thousands of Western Massachusettes hunters saying " where have all the deer gone?" Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif And now the coyotes have come in thick in the Northeast, it won't be long 'till deer hunters in NY and Pa are cryin' the blues also.

A good woodsman will still collect his venison, but the days of easy deer hunting is long over here. And obviously the amount of fellas buying licenses and hunting has taken a nose dive also. The state of course denies the drop in deer populations, and pads the deer kill numbers to hope to keep fellas hunting.

Rediculously, the state continues to offer doe permits to "keep the deer herd under control", when in actuallity we need zero doe permits issued to try to restore the herd in Western Massachusettes. Guess its just all about money..........

As much as I dig coyote hunting, I do miss the big deer population.............. guess you can't have it all.
 
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