Coyotes at work.

[Smokepole]

Think PETA will see this and start protesting coyotes?

Yeah, we should see the news coverage any day now. I heard that the local group was planning on going into the woods dressed as deer.

 

[Smokepole]

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.

The pack thing could be a product of the ridiculously large numbers that exist around here anymore. Was reading recently that the estimated population is somewhere between 40 and 50K in the state. Almost time to hide the women and children.

 

[starbreather]

Deer is not much bigger than the coyote.

 

[buckstopshere]

The pack thing could be a product of the ridiculously large numbers that exist around here anymore. Was reading recently that the estimated population is somewhere between 40 and 50K in the state. Almost time to hide the women and children.

Holy crap

Wasn't there at some time in the 80s or 90s a bounty on yotes? I thought I heard somewhere that the state would pay like $10 or something for every dead coyote brought in. Was I misinformed?

 

[buckstopshere]

Deer is not much bigger than the coyote.

I would've taken him. I haven't gotten a buck yet with my bow and I am positive I wouldn't have passed on him.

 

[fullauto 45]

I killed a yote chasing a deer first day of bow season. Deer was MUCH bigger the that yote. I only saw one, but I bet more were around at the start.

 

[patience0830]

attack from the rear

The coyotes harry the deers rump because that isn't the pointy end. since they aren't large enough to kill a buck that size the way a cougar would with one bound and a bite they hamstring the animal so it can no longer run away. Its power to put up a fight and run away mostly comes from the hind quarters. Large artery and vein in each hind leg too. Once it can't run away they can pull it down easily.

Survival of the fittest. Not pretty but it's kept coyote eating for many moons.

 

[Smokepole]

Deer is not much bigger than the coyote.

A Fallow deer maybe.

 

[rao]

wow is right! personally, i think coyotes are over populating here in IN and I am happy to thin their numbers whenever I can do so legally. While everything has to eat...there has to be a balance and I've seen what happens when there is none. I took my nephew hunting last year and he got his first deer with a bow...there was another hunting party out there that day so there were like 8 guys hunting one section. Within an hour, coyotes had weaved their way through all those hunters and destroyed his first deer. They can be pretty bold....

 

[ATOMonkey]

When we're out hunting, if we see a coyote, it's going to be DRT. Deer will come back around after a shot, but not if there's a predator in the area.

Haven't seen any coyote prints in the field where we hunt. We're in a tree line looking out over a bean field, and rains have made the ground very soft. If there were any coyotes running through there, there tracks would be fairly easy to spot. So far, just deer tracks.