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Deer and Coyotes Question

Buckman23

Buckman23

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What is your experience with coyotes and deer? For example, this evening I set my buck decoy out and a few minutes before it was time to stop a deer came running at my decoy( I thought). It was the buck that I have been after and I thought for sure it was coming to investigate my decoy, but no it kept running. It ran right to me and right under my stand, but like I said it kept going. After it went by I noticed a coyote chasing it. This is where I am a little confused. I have been hunting for 15 years and have seen coyotes in the field before, but this is the first time I have ever seen them chasing a healthy big buck. I usually see them going after the weak or injured. I have also seem them go after small does and bucks. Is the coyote that hungry to challenge a mature buck? I guess I just never thought I would see one coyote chasing a big buck that had nothing wrong with it. Also, I have always read that coyotes prey on the weak. Have any of you ever seen a coyote chasing a mature buck?
 
A friend on opening day last year saw a yote take down a mature doe by leaping and taking it at the throat. This was in Illinois just north of Peoria. I've seen deer nervous with a coyote around but never actually being chased by one.
 
The yotes are thick where I hunt and I haven't seen them try and take a mature buck. I have watched them chase a ton of mature does and smaller bucks and have even found smaller bucks they have caught. I think if a yote is hungry he will take a stab at anything. Watched one try and grab a turkey out of the air once when the turkey started to take off to get away from him he launched himself about six feet in the air and almost got him.
 
Between a coyote and a mature, healthy tom, I'd be tempted to put my money on the tom. Anyone who's picked up one of those suckers with a little life still in it knows what I'm talking about.
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I'm just guessing but I'd be shocked if coyotes were as numerous there as here. I've never seen them chase a deer but I know they'll take them down, I find the odd one that was obviously a kill. I'm guessing sick or weak ones. It seems they get bucks in the winter, maybe wore down and a little slower.
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Well, went out this morning and found out the buck that was being chased by the coyote was not the big boy. I had a buck (around 125) come in limping with a wide spread. I think this is the one that was being chased yesterday. Since he was limping,I debated about shooting him. I dont want him to suffer and get taken down by coyotes, but he is not the caliber of buck that I am looking for. You never know, he might survive so I do not know what to do. What would you do?
 
Let him walk. If he's a nice 125" typical this year he will more than likely be a great nontypical next year. Besides, he already proved he can get away from the yote!
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I'm just guessing but I'd be shocked if coyotes were as numerous there as here.

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The coyotes are thick in the areas I hunt. When the sun sets and they start howling, a person is literally surrounded. Kind of creepy yet neat in a way. I haven't seen them chasing deer, but if you wound a deer and leave it until morning, odds are the yotes will find it during the night.
 
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Kind of creepy yet neat in a way.

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I hear alot of coyotes in a season. Not always after dark, I hear alot of pups starting to hunt. Most the time they are within a 1/2mile and more often they are with 1/4mile.
Creepy neat is a good way to explain it.

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I've seen yotes twice running deer. I wouldn't be surprised that they could take down an adult deer. Many years ago a friend was rebuilding some terraces for a farmer and he dug up a coyote den in the terrace. He said they dug out dozens and dozens of fawn bones.
 
About once a year I have one chase a doe by one of my stands.One spring had two sneek up on my turkey decoys and must have caught my scent and took off.Most of my spots are close to the interstate so the guys thst hunt yotes with dogs stop so they don't chase into the road.Every night when I get out of my stand there are several groups starting to howl,talk about creepy and makes you alittle nervous!
 
I've seen 'yotes chase deer a couple of times - always 2-3 'yotes and a lone deer. Never actually saw if they caught it or not (doe in both cases). The deer looked healthy too - at least no obvious injuries.
 
Down in the Ammunition PLant I have seen only one fawn with a doe this year so far. I have talked to others also and they have seen no fawns at all with does. I think the yotes are so bad down there they are killing all the fawns. I noticed they were getting thicker in there.
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I'm just guessing but I'd be shocked if coyotes were as numerous there as here.

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They are thicker then hair on a dogs back around here!
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They wake me up at night a yiping and howling outside my window.

I see them all the time while hunting but so far I have never seen one chasing deer, however with all my switchgrass and heavy cover, it's hard hunting.

They like a little shorter cover when hunting for mice...which seem to keep them well fed around here.

Rabbit population is very high also so I can't see them wasting to much effort on chasing deer .
 
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Maybe after season we should have a Yote Harvest Thread similar to the Doe Harvest Thread!

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Sounds like a good idea!
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If you can get a shot off at a coyote out of a stand, you can do it on a deer. Those things are alert! I finally just started shooting a few a couple of years ago, they're getting really thick down this way too. The coyote hunters should be hitting the roads before too long with a vengence and that always seems to help some. I've already had deer busted three times by coyotes, they (the deer) must not be too scared though, they're always back in a couple of minutes.
 
If they're that numerous surely there is a market for them. I don't know what the regulations are for firearms and predator hunting but I know a few people here who kill as many as 200 yotes each between Jan. and March. That's not a full time job either, evenings and weekends. I also hear them every night. If I go a day without seeing a couple something is strange.
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They are thick enough around my area that I've had them come up to my back yard fence trying to get to my Brit while she was in heat. Early summer is always a pain when the pups start to yelp and howl, my brit and lab both howl back, usually at 2 or 3 in the morning.
On a side note, last year my brit was yipping at about 3 in the morning like she does when she is on a rabbit. I went out to yell at her and she's chasing a damn fox around the backyard. I thought she was fast but that fox was flying! It managed to escape through a spot in the fence a little to small for my brit.
 
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