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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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10/22/14 03:46 AM
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rifleman
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I've seen it. Coyotes and yearling buck met up at a food plot and the chase was on. The buck lived. Also busted a few mule deer off a rock ledge and they ran by a cpl bedded coyotes and they just had to chase them, kind of like a dog chasing a car going by. Yesterdau I saw a single coyote running a speed goat (and losing ground in a hurry), he no work here no more.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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10/22/14 04:42 AM
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B Razorback
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One time, we were walking up on a pond to check for ducks and we stumbled across a nice buck. As we turned around we realized that there were also about 10 hogs in the bushes that were charging my friend so we all unloaded on the hogs. After about 30 seconds we witnessed that same group of hogs chase that same buck and bring it down together. Wish I would have snagged a video but my phone was in the car. The weirdest thing I have ever seen in our area. I have heard hogs will eat anything but never heard of them chasing and eating a deer
You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas! -Davy Crocket This is duck hunting...shirts and shoes are optional
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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10/22/14 04:46 AM
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crapicat
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I was sitting having coffee by the camp fire one morning several years ago...suddenly a buck emerged from the forest and trotted within 50 yards of me stopped and turned around...then I heard the strangest commotion...suddenly a fawn came running flat out behind the buck, with a coyote in hot pursuit with a doe in hot pursuit of the coyote! I set my coffee down and grabbed for my rifle that was leaning up next to me. As the fawn passed up the buck (coming straight for me) the doe managed to turn the coyote and ran him off into the woods while the fawn came within 15 yards and stopped (again looking back.) As the doe came back to the rest of the group (full of pride, no doubt) she suddenly recognized a human was close, whereupon she started stomping and snorting then they all trotted off in the opposite direction from the coyote. Amused, I leaned my rifle back up against the tree and picked up my coffee. As I was looking around marveling at what I just witnessed, out pops two coyotes trailing the path the doe took. Only one lived to see another day...thanks for reminding me of the reason I get outdoors!
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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10/22/14 05:45 PM
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RossCravens
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Interesting read...I have been very fortunate in my 30 years of going to my ranch to have only seen one yote. This was probably close to 15 years ago and he was moving so quick I didn't get a shot off. I know they are close to our place since we can hear them howling sometimes, but we don't see any sign of them or catch them on cameras. We have even tried calling for them a few times and never seen a thing. I hope it stays that way!!!
Gig 'Em
Ross Cravens Class of '10
"From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it."
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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10/23/14 01:13 AM
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Javelin225ho
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those are some awesome videos….those wolves are apex predators and sure do some damage. if its alive, they will make a turd of it.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/21/15 02:03 AM
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blackcoal
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The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/21/15 10:30 PM
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titan2232
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Coyote can wipe out fawn crops. I have had less than 20% crop last year and this year is not much better. I have tons of grass and weed cover. Same on Mule Deer in West Texas on our lease. Our group of 8 hunters hunted the full Mule Deer season a few years ago and we only saw 1 fawn on 70,000 acres. I don't recall EVER seeing a MD fawn on the West Texas place I hunt. Never really thought about it until I read your post. We've seen mountain lions and bears, but never a coyote.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/22/15 04:13 PM
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We have seen coyotes chase deer through a set multiple times in the past few years.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/22/15 04:24 PM
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redchevy
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In the past I never would have thought coyotes could or would attack grown deer, but I feel otherwise now.
Last weekend we were hunting dad had 3 deer and coyotes ran them off the feeder, but he ccouldnt get a shot. I had 5 deer out feeding a buck doe and twin fawns and 3 coyotes chased them off (same morning) mine weren't so luck I got one of them. Im thinking we will do some calling after season is over.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/23/15 03:56 AM
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bp3
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Friends have a huge ranch in Brewster and coyotes are very hard on the fawn crop. While hunting there you will hear 4-5 different groups howling. We hunt them at night and kill some but in that big country they get trappers to try to control them.The lion population has increased a bunch in the last few years since their ranch is close to the park where there protected.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/23/15 08:15 PM
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Herron
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Our family land is close by a feedlot and since the feedlot opened several years ago, our coyote numbers have exploded. That said, I've yet to see the coyotes show any interest in the deer or the deer show much concern for coyotes. Quite often, I'll jump both deer and coyotes bedded fairly close together.
In our case, I think the coyotes are more than satisfied with dead feedlot calves that they dine on nightly which are easier fare than chasing a deer. Under normal circumstances, I could see where hungry yotes might pack up to kill a deer. But, again, on our place they really don't pay much attention to each other.
The feedlot is a magnet to the yotes. We probably kill at least 50 a year, and, yet, there are always plenty of them around. I get the feeling that for every yote I shoot, I'm just making room for another at the feedlot deadpile cafe.
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Re: Coyote chasing a Buck
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01/25/15 12:27 PM
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Ketchn
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years ago a bud of mine watched a group of 5 take turns running a mature buck up and down the field 2 would lay down on one end and let the other 3 run the deer to them when they got up to chase the others would lay down and wait 3 of those dies that day ..... I was rattling one time in a river bottom below that field myself and rattled up a large pack ....I only got one of them word is they know the bucks will be tired ,distracted and or hurt and easy targets don't know about that but I can say for sure they came right to my rattling like they was on a string slipping in real fast and kinda low like a bunch a cats
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