Originally Posted by mackesr

I did not see anything on Sat. morning except a medium sized coon. I changed to a different stand for the evening hunt and had a doe and six pointer come out of the hardwoods. I shot the six pointer and when the deer wheeled around to go back the way they had come, I noticed another buck was in the rear and was a four pointer. I waited a half hour then went looking for my arrow but could not find it. Saw a little blood and then quite a bit, but after 70 yards it tickled down to nothing. I came back early the next morning with a friend and trailed it to about 300 yards from where I shot it. Something found the buck before I did and ate one whole hind quarter and half the tendorloin on one side and half the hind quarter on the other side. That was about fifty pounds of raw venison in one sitting. Whatever ate that deer ate the hide and all. There was no hair pulled out at all and not a lot of sign to indicate dogs. Might have been a bear, not sure. The arrow did not come out as it angled up into the body cavity and the other half had broken off. Some tough tracking ony to find half a buck!!!