Deer vs Coyote warning, not pretty

[eyeguy 54]

Got this email today

[muskiemanAD]

That buck had to have been wounded before hand or something, seems a healthy buck that size could fight off that thing!

[ozzie]

It had to have been injured previously. look at the back left leg and it looks to bent in alot further than the right...maybe i am off but something happened to that deer prior to meeting those yotes

[tunrevir]

Those yotes looked mighty thin. I have to believe they wouldn't be able to take on a healthy buck of that size but you just never know. I am surprised there was as much left of it as there was after the feast. Those darn things can really do a number on a deer overnight. Usually not much left but skin, bones, maybe a lower front leg and the skull after a night of feeding.

Tunrevir~

[eyeguy 54]

who knows if injured or not. I know they are weaker that time of the year. looks like maybe just 2 smaller yotes. 5 or 6 healthy full grown yotes and it would have pretty much dissappeared. bummer for the buck anyways.

[Gordie]

Thats life and death in the woods .. Dogs gotta eat

sad but it happens

[Jameson]

If you do a search of "Incredible Whitetail Deer Pictures: Coyotes Kill Buck" you'll find a slide show with many more pics. I'd post a link, but that sight also has a forum, so it's against this forum's policy.

Also, listening recently to an area park's Wildlife Manager some coyote packs figure out how to take down healthy adult deer.

[leech~~]

There's real APR, QDM, in practise for you!

[laker1]

Usually a mature buck or any deer that time of year could out run or fend a coyote and you video experts tell me why it all took place in front of a trail camera,that makes it more weird yet. Is this for real? Lot of fake cougar pictures were floating around last year with numerous cats in one photo.

http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/coyote-kill

[88fan]

I get many pictures of coyotes on my camera and I will gets pics of deer less than 1/2 hour after the coyotes were there. It seems like the deer don't even care about the coyotes in my area.

[eyeguy 54]

who knows why it took place right in front of the camera laker1. maybe fake, maybe real. just got the pics today and thought wow, pretty cool. I'm sure stuff like this happens more than we know in the great outdoors. The earth is Not my mother but she sure can be cruel. LOL

[Gordie]

one thing I do notice is the eyes of the yote that are all lite up and yet the deer's are not

Just sayin

[harvey lee]

Look again Gordy, the buck does have lit up eyes.

[Black_Bay]

To me it looks like the buck has a wound on each side just in front of the hind legs. They could be from the coyotes but they look smaller than bites.

[Gordie]

Look again Gordy, the buck does have lit up eyes.

guess I was just looking at the last couple pics Tom

I'm sure this sort of thing happen more than we would like to imagine but thats how it works with nature

[swamptiger]

Quote:

I'm sure this sort of thing happen more than we would like to imagine but thats how it works with nature

+1. Sometimes our pre-conceived notions of the way things "should be", don't really fit with what happens in the real world.

[leech~~]

To me it looks like the buck has a wound on each side just in front of the hind legs. They could be from the coyotes but they look smaller than bites.

Yots and Wolves will slowly wear down their prey by taking turns biting at their hind quarters during the chase. They also take turns during the chase so others can rest to keep up the attack on their prey wearing it down so it cannot rest. That is why the back end is so chewed up, it's the very end of the chase.

[Boar]

coulda run the buck to exhaustion then its easy pikings, just kinda odd that its so play by play from begining to end all in front of the cammera

[Boar]

wel not beginning, didnt see the chase but, to end up right in front of the camera,wat r the odds, He gona have anice rack to pick up

[eyeguy 54]

over 200 pics in the whole deal. I watched them all. pretty crazy.

[harvey lee]

Kinda cool with this on the trail camera but I would say not for the buck. Mother nature at work I guess.

I am sure a pack of coyotes could take a deer down and even a nicer buck.

If they worked on him long enough, there is no doubt in my mond they could wear him down.

I had some pics of 7 yotes in one photo on the trail camera. Could not believe I got that many in one shot but the angle must have been perfect. I might guess there could have been 5-6 after that buck.

[B. Amish]

the deer is from southern oklahoma so it could be all of 120-140 pounds.

[Musky Buck]

If true, "if" true, then no deer is safe really and then for those saying a wolf will "only" take out weak or sick deer..............Truth is I have a ton of coyotes in the area and this was the worst fawn crop I've ever seen in 30 years, actually not seen or tcamed. Whenever you get an e-mail like this though you must wonder why didn't you get it back in August, it's 4 months old already.

[TruthWalleyes]

Ah,

The beauty of Nature and Numbers.

Even the 7th grade football team could beat the vikings if the 7th graders put 100ppl on the field, well maybe the 7th graders would only need 12ppl to win.

[bigbucks]

Don't any of you guys get Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine? It's in the double issue that was in my mailbox on Thursday or Friday I think. I believe there were 41 pics in the magazine.

The guy that submitted the pics said his theory was they chased it a long ways & the spot where the camera was is the only somewhat open area in that immediate area where the brush isn't super thick. He figured it maybe stopped there to fight back as it couldn't out run them or was too tired whatever. If one dog stays on the same deer all day it can walk it to death. A person can too, if they can stay on it, but usually it gives them the slip. The guy figures there's for sure at least 4 different coyotes. I think one of the pics had two coyotes & two more sets of eyes out in the dark.