Something Odd

[cecil30-30]

While doing some scouting today,I was walking a big creek bottom,and noticed a dead deer about 50yds in front of me,as I walked towards it,the deer came alieve or I thought.LOL There was a coyote laying on the other side of it with its head buried in the deer chest cavity.I was about 20 yds away when it took off.Scared the crap out of me,I immediatly pulled my 40cal walther,but he was long gone by the time it was un holstered,he was getting some gone!!! Anyway,turned out to be a spike.I cut its head off,and continued on to my trail camera.Pulled my camera,got home and found these pics.I belive it is the same spike,if so he was alieve Friday,the 26th.If you zoom in on the picture it looks like his face/snout area is sunken in.Not sure though,coyotes had him ate up so much i couldn't tell if he had been shot or not. I have another picture of him,and his whole body,but the sun is blurring it out too much.If someone thinks they might be able to clear it up let me know and i'll upload it also.I'd like to see his whole body to see if he had been shot or something.

 

[Football Hunter]

looks like the same deer to me,too bad you didnt get the yote

 

[wayers]

looks like same deer to me to

 

[cecil30-30]

Here's the kicker.THe deer was full of magots and stunk to high heaven. If it was alieve friday,then how would it get full of maggots and already be stinking by this afternoon? It stayed in the 40's all day here today,and yesterday it didn't get above 55.

 

[BSK]

So many spikes have similar shaped antlers that telling them apart can be very difficult.

I would bet heavily on the coyote scavenging an already dead deer. Coyotes have been documented killing adult deer, but it is fairly rare. Coyotes are more fawn killers than adult deer killers.

 

[BigD_625]

Probably a different deer.

 

[travle]

When a body dies outdoors, blowflies arrive within 10 minutes of death. A female will lay about 300 eggs while she feeds on decaying flesh. It takes eight to 20 hours for maggots to hatch from their eggs, and they are about 2 mm long when they emerge. The maggots produce metabolic heat from bacterial digestion of the flesh, which enables them to develop while stored in a cold location. Maggot masses tend to move to thicker parts of the body that decrease in temperature more slowly. This is sufficient to continue maggot development. Here's is an answer to ur maggot question if it is the same deer.

 

[RAFI]

I would think its a different deer

 

[cecil30-30]

I would think its a different deer

About has to be a different deer. I mean,if it was the same deer,and it was alieve Friday even. It didn't get above 55 on saturday,and didn't get out of the 40's yesterday (sunday) theres no way it could have smelled like it did or be so full of maggots so quick.Im convinced its a different deer.

 

[RAFI]

I would think its a different deer

About has to be a different deer. I mean,if it was the same deer,and it was alieve Friday even. It didn't get above 55 on saturday,and didn't get out of the 40's yesterday (sunday) theres no way it could have smelled like it did or be so full of maggots so quick.Im convinced its a different deer.

The spike in the trail cam pic even looks like the antlers are a little smaller to me also than the dead deer