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Started by Hognutz, November 20, 2011, 10:35:00 AM
QuoteMade me sick as well. I don't know why the buck didn't just run away. He wasn't leaving that area for some reason unless he was sick or something wrong with him.
Quote from: Gobble Nole on November 21, 2011, 05:29:03 PMWelcome to nature fellas. It appears to me that the buck was potentially wounded or sick, maybe an errant shot with a bow or something to weaken the animal. I can tell you this, nature is rough. You can shoot all the coyotes that can be called in and bated, and this will still happen on a daily basis throughout the country. No matter what you do, nature will always be there and natural selection will reign, it cannot be stopped. It isn't easy to watch but it is an important lesson to hunters. Make good clean kill shots, do a good job tracking if necessary, and recover the animal. Wounded and weakened animals are easy pray for coyotes, even a mature buck like this.I can promise that this sort of predator related death has been going on long before any of us got here and it will continue long after we are gone.