Coyotes at work.

[Black_Wolf]

You would not want to watch if it was a cow giving birth.

Much more horrendous than this.

Watch the full slide show.

Mildly gory for those who are squeamish or have young children near.

Incredible Whitetail Deer Pictures: Coyotes Kill Buck | Deer & Deer Hunting | Whitetail Deer Advice and Instruction

 

[deadsquirrel]

WOW!

 

[singlesix]

Proof positive the nature is much kinder and gentler than hunting.

 

[Black_Wolf]

Proof positive the nature is much kinder and gentler than hunting.

Bingo!

You, Sir, are getting rep for this one.

Let the antis suck on that.

Now to shoot the coyotes too.

 

[selinoid44]

Seen that last week. That is some amazing pics and it all happened right in front of the camera. Suprise the buck didnt try to run off, but he was probably done running.

 

[kickbacked]

such is life in the woods

 

[1911Shooter]

Its a shame that such a nice deer was killed by those worthless muts. This is exactly why I shoot all coyotes. I dont care if it does screw up my entire hunt.

 

[Leadeye]

Watched a coyote ambush and kill a doe a few years back, couldn't get a shot off but I was surprised how fast it all took place.

 

[gus1989]

That was amazing to capture on the camera. It had probably started well before the camera started shooting (you can see the deer is wounded in the third pic). It lasted couple hours too. It's hard to watch and I don't want to see anything suffer, but that has always been the relationship between predator and pray.

 

[rw496]

unreal. I got a lot of coyotes by me. Had some big ones run through the yard where the kids were playing right before that.

 

[srad]

Ran into the after effects of the same in a small patch of squirrel woods near my house last year. Jumped a nice bodied 10 pointer while hunting; 2 days later I went to get a few more squirrels & came across his carcass. Looked like it happened the night before. Came back the next day to get the rack (after calling the CO office) and the yotes had eaten about half of him.

I've seen three yotes in this small patch of woods. Happily took one out with a .22lr right behind the ear at 25 yds.

 

[Mike H]

I shot one today deer hunting.

 

[deadsquirrel]

Think PETA will see this and start protesting coyotes?

 

[rtm]

Thanks for the post that was very interesting

 

[ATOMonkey]

Coyotes are supposed to be solitary animals and their diet historically has been small game and carion. It's very distrubing to see them operating more like a pack and growing larger as well.

They're turning into mini wolves.

 

[Black_Wolf]

Coyotes are supposed to be solitary animals and their diet historically has been small game and carion. It's very distrubing to see them operating more like a pack and growing larger as well.

They're turning into mini wolves.

Thats because many have wolf dna in them here in the east.

It is believed that coyotes made their way here over ice bridges or frozen sections of the both the Missouri and Mississippi rivers expanding their range from the west.

This was aeons ago, mind you.

Once here they interbred with now extinct smaller woods wolf subspecies effectively tainting not only their gene pools, but, those of the wolves and gradually cancelling those wolf subspecies out.

Maine has the country's biggest coyotes because of that fact and I myself have killed some monstrous ones back in NY.

We generally do not like to discuss these facts on the open forums for fear of the watchful anti hunting group asshats using this info to put moratroriums on hunting them, much like the volatile wolf battle they are having with them now in the western states.

They pretty much know this already, so, my loose lip talk so to speak is pretty much cast aside now.

Regardless of their DNA pool, coyotes are coyotes, they are a nuisance more so now than ever and need to be hunted and controlled.

Wolves too.

The antis will deny that, but, they are as wrong now as they have ever been.

 

[45calibre]

why were they eating/attacking the deers ass?

 

[CountryBoy19]

why were they eating/attacking the deers ass?

That's just how coyotes do it... for some reason they feed from the hind up... likely a carry-on of the way they take down large game. Because they aren't built to take down large game easily, they take it down from the rear, where the risk of injury is lessened. Once they've taken down an animal from the rear, it is likely related to the fact that the animal it already ripped opened and bleeding from the rear and that is where it is easiest to feast...

That's just an educated guess though, I do not know for sure why.

I do know one thing, they are dirty creatures and I wish that their was an easy way to get rid of them... hate them with a passion.

 

[buckstopshere]

Too bad that deer didn't arm himself!

Seriously, yotes are such dangerous animals. It looked to me like they were pretty skinny which is probably why they went after such big game. This is more to ATOMonkeys point. The more desperate they become, the more likely to go after big game. If they're hunting in packs more, who knows, they might start routinely attacking humans.

All the more reason to make sure you are armed when you're in the woods.

 

[45fan]

That's just how coyotes do it... for some reason they feed from the hind up... likely a carry-on of the way they take down large game. Because they aren't built to take down large game easily, they take it down from the rear, where the risk of injury is lessened. Once they've taken down an animal from the rear, it is likely related to the fact that the animal it already ripped opened and bleeding from the rear and that is where it is easiest to feast...

That's just an educated guess though, I do not know for sure why.

I do know one thing, they are dirty creatures and I wish that their was an easy way to get rid of them... hate them with a passion.

The reasoning that was explained to me was that the back side is softer, not as many bones in the way. Makes it easier to get more eaten faster.

The last deer kill that I came across like this was much more graphic. I could here it happening the night before, and when the sun came up, all that was left was a blood stained area that the tall grass had been smashed down in. not even a skull was left.