Will a Coyote Get the Deer You Shot?
A friend texted from camp in Oklahoma one day last October: Guy shot a nice buck, but coyotes found it before we did, meat half gone. Another text from him two days later: Coyotes got another buck, this one in less than an hour and during middle of day…just like on the blog. A month earlier here on my Big Deer website, I had blogged about how coyotes were seemingly finding and devouring bowshot deer at an alarming rate. I asked people to share any such predator stories they had. Hunters from North Carolina to New York to Kansas wrote and confirmed that the new coyote dilemma is very real. Two examples: ---a buddy of mine arrowed a 160 class [...]