Keep at it. Check any little weed patches that you think could hide a deer, and ditches through fields, etc. If you think he could hide there...CHECK IT! Good luck cubs!
Yeah , sometimes in this instance dogs are your best resort ......good luck , its gonna be in the mid 80's today if you find him later in the day just lop the rack off , i hated doing that when it happend to me once , i lost blood when he crossed a creek , i found him 2 days later by mistake not even close to the direction he was heading in .
so I decided to drive over to the only standing corn in sight that he seemed to b heading to. Checking every row for blood, got to the end and looked out in the cut beanfield. . Pics to come. Not as big as I thought but by far my biggest
Oh...he went over 1.5 miles. Coyotes ate the back end out a little and he stinks real bad...meat no good?
Alright Cubs! Too bad about the coyotes, but you did what you had to in order to recover him. Good work!
Good deal, way to stick it out. I know the feeling of coyotes, hunting Morgan county 2 years ago one got to my doe within 1 1/2 - 2 hours. But I got my revenge on one of them last year, which reminds me I need to check the drainage ditch to see if the skull cleaned up. They're thick here in west central IL Good to see the hunter persevere in one of these threads.
You can trim away the areas that the coyotes hit. I've salvaged meat from deer left over night in weather like this, it's far from ideal but it's doable.
