A Shame, is this common?

[AOD]

2 years ago a buddy of mine shot a nice 3 pt at last light. He stopped by my place for a hand hauling it out.  We got back to the deer about 45 minutes later and coyotes had ripped into the paunch and started in on the hind quarters. It sucks but its nature! When opportunity knocks...the coyotes do the same thing we do

[JackOfAllTrades]

For the record if you could see the canyon behind and to the right of this deer only a idiot would go in after dark and push a deer 

Good point, but one does not need to push a deer when camped on him. .. First yip from a doggy warrents a shot over the bow. Most times that will be enough to scare them away.

-Steve

[mrmoskillz]

My son shot his doe is eastern Wa this year and we had to leave it over night that same night a 13 year old lil girl also shot a deer and had to wait until morning to find it.  My son's deer was fine but hers was ate.  They ate everything but the front shoulder and even pissed on that so there was nothing to recover.  Sorry to hear about your deer

[400out]

For the record if you could see the canyon behind and to the right of this deer only a idiot would go in after dark and push a deer 

Good point, but one does not need to push a deer when camped on him. .. First yip from a doggy warrents a shot over the bow. Most times that will be enough to scare them away.

-Steve

It was right before dark and I tracked it for a bit then backed out and came back next morning! and what the picture doesn't show is the damn thing died not 5 feet from the den  I can't imagine what went through the yotes heads when they crowled out of the hole to go hunting for the night!

[h20hunter]

Nothing....it all went through their mouth!

Papa yote got up....headed out....saw your deer......started looking around thinking either I'm dead or bonanza!

[jaymark6655]

Don't know, but a chunk of lead is what should of gone through their head.

[THunt]

Do you have a pic of the deer? 

[JackOfAllTrades]

I can't imagine what went through the yotes heads when they crowled out of the hole to go hunting for the night!

Damn.. Sometimes you just can't win! That sux.

Every situation is different. A hunter needs to make decisions when darkness falls. Some for the better, some for the worse, some things are out of our control. Fortunately I've been quite lucky not to have needed to let a deer sit over night.

-Steve

[predatorpro]

Didnt kow where to post this but figured since it was a deer hunt this would work.

A friend recently shot a 4x5 whitetail with a bow near Manson. The shot was at last shooting light and after waiting 1.5 hours he went to find the animal. As it happens the deer was still alive and, though fatally wounded, was still able to get up and move off slowly. Thinking as we have learned to about wounded animals and letting them di, he pulled out for the night and intended to go back in the AM to pick up the trail and get his prize.

Early the next morn while scouting for the sign and looking for the dead deer, he found it. In the proceeding 10 hours it had been devoured by coyotes. All that was left was the rack and a skeleton with a little hide left.

My buddy was devestated, is this something common here?  What else could he have done differently to keep this from happening?

Regardless, it looks like we need to take the coyote population down a notch or three.

hell ya its common out here if you leave a deer overnight! ud be amazed how many coyotes were eating on that thing!! we seen some guys shoot a 2 point along time ago from a long ways out with binocs! couldnt ever get on em they were gettin out of dodge, well the next morning 7 coyotes jumped off it, nothing but bones and some fur they even ate all the skin,  nothing left on the bones!!

[Buckmark]

That is a bummer....
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Archery season or late archery hunt + Winter range + Spotlight + Rifle = 
Would have to be your personal protection weapon only on you, and still add a spotlight to the mix and a warden may not be to friendly, just sayin...

[Odell]

I did it once, last year with archery. I left it all night and it hadn't been touched and it ate just fine. In hindsight it was unnessasary and I should have gone after it in about an hour but I was trying to err on the safe side.

[JLS]

I'd say it was just bad luck.

I would never push an arrow shot buck after dark if I knew it was still up and moving.  Let it bed and die, and you have a chance of recovering it.  Push it and lose the blood trail and you won't recover it.

[D-Rock425]

This happened to my brother about 5 years ago with a blacktail.  The shot was a touch back (liver) and late in the evening.   After loosing blood that night we returned in the morning to recover the deer.  We found the deer but so did the yotes. they didn't have much time and only ripped out a small hole where the arrow had hit.  Meat was fine.

[400out]

Don't know, but a chunk of lead is what should of gone through their head.

it did the next day  wel I would call it his head 

[400out]

Do you have a pic of the deer?

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