Coyotes kill deer?

The guy that I hunt with has a video of a pair of coyotes chasing a young buck out onto a pond and then killing it. Unfortunately he was not home and the only thing his wife did was video tape it. By the time he got home the young deer was dead. I will try to get the video of it and get a clip of it on here. On the same farm we both have seen bobcats chasing deer. So I wouldnt just believe that only coyotes kill deer.

NYHunter26
 
After reading all this, I think we are lucky we have any deer left. The hard part to understand is this.

Coyotes were here long before man ever set foot on this land, so were the wolves, Mt lions, grizzlys, black bears etc.

Then man comes on the seen and kills deer with his pickem up trucks and cars, then he shoots the hell out of em. how is it we still have deer left /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif NO...I'm not an anti, just looking for an answer lol. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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If the state govts hadnt stepped in and applied seasons and limits lon ago we wouldnt have any,they would have gone the way of the buffalo.
 
Probably a thousand years ago in an Outdoor Life or Field and Stream. I was looking at the newest Field and Stream just a couple of days ago and they had clips from articles printed back in the mid-50's (yes I was alive back then). One clip mentioned that on a cold night while camping it is OK to put a qlowing ember in your tent to warm the inside as you are going to bed. Go figure. Where did I read it? I am a college graduate in Biology, and I easily could have read it while in Animal Physiology class.
I think with eye-wittnes accounts like you have some science books can be rewritten. Heck some people still believe that we did not land on the moon, and they have a video to prove it. Thanks for your response and good hunting.
JB
 
BTK,
Ah, a good question. Much of the wildlife in this country was extripated (killed off) by wanton waste, over harvest and market hunting at the turn of the last century. Also, habitat was being converted to farmland at a remarkable rate. A few conservationist (almost all hunters including Teddy Roosevelt) enacted laws to prevent the endless slaughter of wildlife and also set aside large areas of land for conservation. Eventually most of the wildlife came back, but a few didn't (passenger pigeon). A lot of effort has gone into transplanting and reintroducing wildlife to it's former range as well. Through all this effort,almost entirely funded by sportman, wildlife has made a tremendous comeback in our country. Now, we are faced with a different dilemma, too much wildlife in some instances. For example, canada geese. I actually helped with transplanting them in Oklahoma many years ago, now they're like flying rats. Everywhere. The same can be said for deer populations in many states. Once hardly any deer, now too many. Wildlife has a way of occupying a niche if given half a chance.
 
Usually there is a lot more wildlife in farming areas than pure wilderness. Deer do well in agricultural areas. There is more feed in a 100 acre corn field than in probably 10 square miles of mature woods.

Cutover woodlots are better than mature woods too.

But I recall reading about the very first explorers into the west. There was so much wildlife it looked like the African plains. At any given time there would be hundreds of big game animals in sight. Not just buffalo, but herds of elk, antelope, and deer. They would commonly see several bears at one time. A hundred years ago a hunter in Alaska would easily see 30 moose in a day.

I'd love to live back then just to see it.
 
jbordy, you're not the only old one around here. I was at Disneyland the week it opened. Hell, I was around when FDR was president. I think I'm becoming extinct /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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I once witnessed from my pick-up truck a coyote chasing a mature wt doe that appeared to be perfectly healthy. The doe was not limping, or had no visible injuries. This was in the middle of the day in Dec., in a remote location.

It is not uncommon to hear stories from deer hunters where I live who have called coyotes to their stand with a distressed fawn call or grunt call. I've done this myself on one occassion.

I whole-heartily agree with Gunz on his comment about "common sense", but then again that's too simple compared to a theory of grandeur on coyote behavior.

I doubt very seriously if the coyote I saw that day was out getting some cardio exercise.
 
Saw a lone coyote take down a yearling doe while bow hunting one time. Looked like he had been harassing the doe for quite a while when I came on it. He had both hind legs hamstrung. I heard them long befor I saw them. She was balling just about like a fawn bleating tape.
 


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