Well this last rut here in Ohio I put an arrow in a small what I thought was a 6 pointer, nothing huge but what have been my first buck EVER! After the shot we searched the woods to where he ran for Hours and even the next morning and found nothing, went to take my stand down today and long behold I found the skeleton of a small five point buck 60 yards from my stand the opposite direct from where he ran but exactly where h came from! I'm mind blow ! That deer wasn't there beginning season. And I never thought to check the tree line he came from its a small five point bones looked picked dry but almost line the deer was bedded and died in the thick thorn patch? Give me your thoughts please c hold this be my FIRST BUCK!?! Mike4christ
Coyotes are strong but I doubt a coyote could drag a deer any distance nor would they. They would just eat it where it fell. A deer would be 3 times times or more than the weight of a coyote.
There is so much conventional wisdom when it comes to blood trailing deer and most is pretty solid. However an individual deer is going to do what it wants after they have been hit with an arrow and it is wise to do some grid searches when you lose the trail of a shot deer. I wish I could say I have found every deer I shot in 40 years, but that is not the reality of my experience. I have had deer I thought I hit marginally end up being great shots and a quick kill. Conversely, I have had deer I thought I nailed perfectly go a long distance and be a bugger to recover. A few have done unconventional things and disappeared, much to my chagrin and angst. Last fall I shot a big doe that headed east after the shot into a very nasty thick area where we lost blood and her. Two weeks later there was a bad odor coming from the cornfield in the opposite direction and I follow the smell to a dead doe that was hit in the same spot as I shot the missing deer. Apparently she reversed course and doubled back to the corn before dying and I had no idea whatsoever. I actually walked out that day about 75 yards from her but with 7' standing corn it was like looking into a jungle, plus I had no idea she was there. Of course I have found way more than I have lost and most are pretty textbook, but the odd ones stick with you.......
Actually had coyotes drag a deer hit by a car near my parents nearly drug it 100 yards it was probably 100 to 120 pounds Sent from my SM-G920V using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
A few weeks ago I found a fresh doe killed by wolves/coyotes, so fresh I touched it to see if it was still warm. THEN I looked around incase they were still there. It was a large, old doe. You could easily see where it was killed, lots of blood/hair/tissue pieces. They dragged it at least 50 yards. My guess is while ripping fresh/tugging. Once a part (hind quarter etc) comes off they could drag that a long ways. Even take it hundreds of yards to the den. I have see deer bones "scattered" in a large area. They don't have to drag the whole deer.
I would agree with your logic but they moved it 3 different times. Not sure why. Other then trying to get it to the woods. Sent from my SM-G920V using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
I have found if you stick a deer to sit very still for at least a half hour and listen. If you do not see it crash then set still and listen. Deer will often circle back around and come see what spooked them then die. I have lost track the number of deer I have recovered that circled around. Last fall I found one for some guys in west Kansas that had circled back around and was down wind only 40 yards from the stand. He had shot it about 15 minutes before dark and started trailing before he lost light. Then they went back and looked till their batteries went dead. Sad thing was the coyotes found it first. Had he stayed in the stand he would have heard it crash.
Well I can promise you that I searched that whole property especially that spot preseason for a stand location and that bucks was not there and when I went to take my stand down it was all piled up in some thick brush right on the edge of the field. Definitely Bentley not 2 years dead my friend. Mike4christ
Your funny! Or a DumbA**!........Bahahahahahahaha! Your last line in your original post says..........."Give me your thoughts please c hold this be my FIRST BUCK!?! I gave you my thoughts! Didn't know you wanted your thoughts, not our thoughts! LOL! Glad to hear you shot a buck, never looked hard enough in that spot to recover it, but did a few months later....... Sorry to see it picked so clean, missing skull pieces and bleached out in only a few months after shooting it.......... That happens all the time!
Wow so I got on here to kinda see what people thought, I can't tell if you joking around or just another prick hunter that likes to run his mouth. Thank you to all for the positive feed back, the honest hunters the helping hunters. The ones who do it for the love of the sport and not just the rack and pride. Mike4christ
Nope, don't joke around. You wanted to kinda hear what people thought? No you didn't! Gave you my honest opinion on the question YOU asked, on what appears to me, to be a buck that has laid dead for more than 2 years. If you want to believe its the one you shot, Has been picked clean inside briar bushes and bleached white under cover in just a few short months since hunting season...............congrats, on finding a dead deer!
