That's seems pretty brave/aggressive. Guess it's a tough time to be coyote?
Way to go retrieverman! Great way to kick off the 2022 deer thread. We all have a high bar to meet now lol.
Ugh I hate that. I lost a buck one year to coyotes. It’s been pay back ever since.
I’m afraid it’s going to be a rough winter for the deer herd up here, because this buck had about a third of the fat layer on a buck his size in a normal year.
It is, this drought is making it tough for everything.
I skinned/quartered her out by the gate, left the head, hide, lower legs.
A few hours later you couldn't find a trace of her.
I dumped the carcass last night within sight of one of my rifle stands, and I’m hoping to coyote hunt this evening. They may have already cleaned it up though. I’ll go check later.
I’m fixing to cook a head now.
I’m fixing to cook a head now.
Ok, I’m going to confess some dumbassery on my part. When I was attempting to blood trail the deer in the dark last night, I pulled out the Fenix light I bought specifically to carry in my pack, and it was really dim. I thought the batteries were bad, so I drove 5 miles round trip on the Ranger back to my house to get my old faithful flashlight and found the deer with 30 seconds of getting back to my stand. It ended up I had shined the dim light right on the deers belly but thought it was a dead tree, so I didn’t go look.
I was just changing the batteries on the Fenix and discovered it has a button to change the brightness settings.
I say all that to say this. Know your equipment before getting in the field and needing it. I spend a lot of time on stands, knives, and whatever weapon I’m hunting with, but until now, I haven’t given any thought to my flashlight other than having one. The one I normally carry is just the on/off kind, and I hadn’t played with the Fenix enough to know it was different.
I was just changing the batteries on the Fenix and discovered it has a button to change the brightness settings.
I say all that to say this. Know your equipment before getting in the field and needing it. I spend a lot of time on stands, knives, and whatever weapon I’m hunting with, but until now, I haven’t given any thought to my flashlight other than having one. The one I normally carry is just the on/off kind, and I hadn’t played with the Fenix enough to know it was different.
Congrats @retrieverman ! Beautiful buck!
That happens fast sometimes. I was walking up to my cousins stand and was within 75 yds when I pushed a little buck to him. He hit it with his 7 mag and it ran to his left, leaving a heck of a blood trail. I walked up, he climbed down, we chatted for about 10 mins then went to retrieve his deer. You didn’t have to search for blood because it was everywhere. The deer ran through an old fence where we found some intestines hanging on the barbed wire. Another 50 yds and we found the deer in a cedar thicket, already ripped up by coyotes. His 7 mag hit at such an angle that it laid the opposing side of the deers belly open, spilling guts out. I don’t know if he ran into where the coyotes were bedded or what but there was enough damage that he didn’t salvage anything but one shoulder.
It’s done. I don’t have any peroxide here, so it’s not really white white yet.
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