Blood trailing in Coyote country

[wvbearhunter]

I lost a huge black bear in Manitoba several years ago with a recurve. I hit him a little high and he bolted into the scrub. It got dark so we came back in the morning and the coyotes had eaten darn near the entire bear overnight. We estimated a live weight of nearly 600#

 

[Rosebud]

I lost a huge black bear in Manitoba several years ago with a recurve. I hit him a little high and he bolted into the scrub. It got dark so we came back in the morning and the coyotes had eaten darn near the entire bear overnight. We estimated a live weight of nearly 600#

Man that sucked. Great big bear with a recurve and loose it to coyotes. Was bear hunting in Minnesota about ten years ago, we're loading guns and stuff on the ATVs after a evening set when they lit up all around us. Must have been six or eight of them. Usually not afraid of them, but this time we unpacked the rifles.

 

[billflangjr813]

Wow. It may be time to take me on the first coyote hunt to thin the numbers. That is quick

Thanks

Buck

I have killed 9 this hunting season!!

 

[sp6x6]

Wish I had picture.But a friend arrowed a nice whiptail buck local farmland type area.He went to retrieve in morning as he thought he was back a bit.You could pick whole skeleton up by horns and it was picked clean to bone, just crazy looking.

 

[Bucklowery]

I have killed 9 this hunting season!!

Wow. I hear some now and again but rarely see one in daylight maybe once every 10 years

Thanks

Buck

 

[WYO300RUM]

Wish I had picture.But a friend arrowed a nice whiptail buck local farmland type area.He went to retrieve in morning as he thought he was back a bit.You could pick whole skeleton up by horns and it was picked clean to bone, just crazy looking.

Like this ? Found 2 days later. I tagged him anyways.

 

[sp6x6]

It was picked white pink clean ,almost no fur and he was holding it up all intact, was crazy.Must been a good sized group of them

 

[birddog 68]

I lost a doe this year while archery hunting.
The shot was back a bit so waited a hour and half and recruited a couple friends. We followed sporadic blood for 200 yards and lost it in tall grass. The next morning I found pieces of hide where she bedded and lost her trail. The following day my buddy seen crow's gathered in the area and found the skeleton picked clean about 150 yards from her last bed.
I will be trying to thin the coyotes in the next month or two because I hunt to feed my family not the coyotes.

 

[str8meat]

Same thing happened to myself 4 years ago on a cow elk. Shot was 50 yards with archery equipment. Shot was a touch forward but she was broadside. I waited 20 minutes before finding blood and plenty of it, jumped her from her bed and backed out as she was really close to crossing onto private property. Left her over night only to find that the coyotes found her first eating 90 % of a cow elk overnight. Not a fun feeling to have.

 

[cajun]

When we dump a deer carcass in the evening there is usually nothing left for the buzzards by morning.

 

[Creedmoor shooter]

Helping do my part this morning

 

[Rosebud]

Two years ago myself and another friend hunted a huge Ag. field bordered by a twenty yard wide ,but deep creek. Other side was a big $$$ hunting lease. They didn't shoot does to the Ag fields owners request.
We were asked to eliminate them. Which we did, on a wholesale basis. In five weeks we killed 43 deer. Mostly does, with a couple of good bucks thrown in.
All this being said the coyotes knew when they heard shots coming from our side of the creek ment gut piles. They would show up when we were gutting them. Shine a light out in the field and they were setting and waiting for us to pack up and leave. Sometimes as many eight of them, just setting on the butts watching from twenty yards away.
The lease owners were not pleased with us in the least. Game wardens were called more than once. But after they checked us out those calls went in answered afterwards. I miss that place.