I HATE COYOTES!!!

[stik]

the only reason i ever started deer hunting was because somebody fed me some. i shot a buck just before dark friday evening. in the fading light, i could find no sign of a hit. i returned this morning and hunted until about 10 and went to verify that i had missed. after finding a clump of hair, i trailed scuffed up leaves right to this:

 

[JAD]

Buy a half dozen traps, get a .22, and have at them after deer season closes. I do it every year.

 

[DntBrnDPig]

What do you do with the carcasses? I'm not sure its worth trying to skin them out.

 

[stik]

What do you do with the carcasses? I'm not sure its worth trying to skin them out.

nothing left to skin out but the neck. i disposed of it in the woods(private property with permission)

 

[JAD]

Bobcats I give to someone who skins them, but most of the coyotes I toss. Their pelts have little value. I wish I could find someone who wanted them all. I don't feel great about just disposing of them, but I look at it as pest control/maintenance.

 

[bigdoc]

I hate to see that, I also trap a few after deer season. I give mine to people that have them soft tanned and hang them up.

 

[MattZ9]

Man that sucks

 

[stik]

have them soft tanned and hang them up.

that's what i want to do with the one i shot last week. any recommendations on somebody to do it?

 

[redblood]

In their defense, they were just scavenging not killing. they were like you, once their mama fed them some deer, they can't give it up!

 

[wsm]

Hate that for you.

 

[catman529]

That sucks stik, at least you went back and found him though.


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[nick2720]

There's a guy with a ad on Facebook says pays 60$ a pelt for coyotes. Located in il somewhere

 

[ROVERBOY]

You still got a buck with a nice rack. Sorry about the meat. Looks like a big bodied deer too.

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

Nice buck to go to waste.you did all you could do

 

[southernhunter]

Same thing happened to me last year. You did all you could do. I know it sucks though. Most guys would just assume they missed.

 

[megalomaniac]

Wow, sooo sorry about losing all that meat. Just stinks when you are hunting for the meat, and 1/2 buck tags are used for just 3lbs of the neck meat only. Coyotes are vicious predators as well as scavengers. I honestly believe they do more damage to the deer population than we as hunters do.

 

[Planking]

Ugh! Time for some traps.

 

[Fleet Fox]

Doubt it makes much difference, because they probably got him last night, but if I thought there was any chance I hit a deer I wouldn't be hunting the next morning until 10. I would be looking for the deer I thought I hit the night before. Like someone else said, you had to completely waste a tag on a deer you got very little use out of.

 

[AllOutdoors]

Hate it happened to you. We lost one to coyotes last year.

 

[stik]

Doubt it makes much difference, because they probably got him last night, but if I thought there was any chance I hit a deer I wouldn't be hunting the next morning until 10. I would be looking for the deer I thought I hit the night before. Like someone else said, you had to completely waste a tag on a deer you got very little use out of.

i looked for over an hour in the dark for some sign of a hit and found nothing. i had missed a coyote just an hour before and after thinking i also missed the deer, i suspected my gun was off. the only sign i found of a hit deer the next morning when i could see was a little hair and scuffed up leaves 15 yds from where the deer was laying. i was sure i had missed that deer but being the legal/ethical hunter that i am, i had to look to make sure when i had some light.