Dead Deer...What Killed It?

[PatM]

I recently found a doe that didn't have any visible marks on her and looked totally healthy (apart from being dead).
 I went back the next day to get the sinew and she was untouched by Coyotes.
 A few days earlier I found one that had obviously been struck by a vehicle and when I went back the next day I was lucky that three of the legs were still there.
 Might have been just proximity to where the Coyotes have been hanging out.
 Oddly the one they tore into was practically in town. The other one was much more out in the country.

[soy]

Roo ga roo

[TRACY]

A spotlight and .22 sub sonic.

Bad shot if there are two holes

Hmmm....impaled on some yard art or feeder stake? Squatch


Tracy

[osage outlaw]

Derik, check its hooves to.  If they are funky that is a sign of disease.

[bowtarist]

I did Clint. I used them to flip her over and they seemed fine. I didn't get out the magnafyer or anything, but I touch them and looked at them.

[osage outlaw]

If they were bad you would know.  They would stink worse than the dead dear.

[Dharma]

The holes look too "perfect", so to speak, to be from an animal. I agree with what Mullet said. Probably a poacher and the deer got away but mortally wounded.

[bowtarist]

I live in a valley where you can hear a rooster crow for 1/2 a mile. I'd think a gun shot would have been heard. There are plenty of poachers around though. I probably won't be able to get down there again, I have to work late tonight and it's raining like crazy. Tomorrow night I night I have to pack up for the Classic. The question still stands and probably will for some time. thanks for the replies. dp

[4dog]

wont hear much if it was hit with a suppressed .22 round..through and through...the deer might have run awhile with that wound before dying.

[mullet]

My neighbors live within 30' on either side of me and can't hear my 10-22 with subsonics when I shoot in the back yard.

[Marc St Louis]

A .22 wouldn't leave a big hole like that and you would think that after the first shot she would be running like mad, hard to hit a deer that's running full out. 

[bowtarist]

I won't be able to get back there until after the Classic on Sunday or Monday. I took Monday off work too.  I'll take my kids metal detector back there and see what it says. I suspect it will be pretty ate up by then, but I'd like to see that the yotes got on it or not. I feel like if it was a cat, the yotes may not mess w/ it if it smells like a cat.  We definitely have bobcats, but I don't believe they would take down a full grown deer. I have some other pics of the body if anyone is interested in seeing them I can post them too. I don't think it's a gun shot wound either. Gotta go, dp 

[ErictheViking]

Manny's off the island! .....large caliber airgun would make the thump and the big hole.

[BOWMAN53]

A spotlight and .22 sub sonic.





that or an alien probe

and  bubby would know about alien probes lol

[Rick Wallace]

Bigfoot.