Coyotes kill Healthy Adult Buck in GA

He may have been healthy, but he was a complete dumbass for letting 2 yotes slip up on him in broad daylight.

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Adult Buck

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1 1/2-year-old 6-pointer

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Ehh more like a teenager.

I killed a 7 year old buck that had a bite out of its hindquarter.

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I never truly realized how much danger a healthy adult deer is under until now.

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says the hunter who just got down from deer stand with his rifle.

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My favorite part is where two guys holding rifles watched a pair of coyotes eat a deer at 80 yards and didn’t shoot them.

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So you didn't read the article.

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The story is obvious bull shite from the GA version of LA sportsman, but even assuming it’s true the deer was a yearling.

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I think it is BS also. What is the antler size requirements in GA? It could be true, but I doubt it. Why isn’t there more blood if it was alive and fighting? Did he clean it to see if anything was wrong internally or disease? I would have gotten video of the bleats that is for sure. I probably wouldn’t have known what the hell it was.

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In the days of everyone having a video camera in their pocket, still more videos out there of UFOs and Bigfoot than of coyotes catching grown deer.

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trail cams would show it at feeders and foodplots.

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you might want to sit down for this, but coyotes have been killing deer ever since there were coyotes (and deer)

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Definitely the case.

The only thing I can add to this is that I talked to a professor at Auburn (I think he was in the engineering department) who said he had a colleague in wildlife or biology or whatever.

So according to this guy, Auburn has some long running ongoing study on coyote scat. And supposedly back in the late 80s when they started the study something like 5% of coyote scat had deer hair in it.

And then sometime in the 90s it became seasonal. There would be a spike in deer hair during the deer season. When lots of wounded and lost deer were available. And then again in the summer when fawns were dropping. But rarely other times of year.

But then at some point it became year round. And that basically coyotes (which weren't in the Eastern US until something like the 1960s) have basically learned how to hunt deer. And now may be hunting deer cooperatively like wolves.

Which if true, then good for them for all I care.

This may be nothing but campfire talk. But interesting nonetheless

nature finds a way
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