Originally Posted by
falcon
Bow hunters lose many here, and elk too. Have tracked up a lot of wounded deer for folks: If the deer is not recovered the evening that it is shot, there is about a 75 percent chance that the coyotes will get it. Sometimes the hogs beat the coyotes to the carcass. i will sometimes set up on a deer carcass and zap some coyotes as they come in.
There are some abnormally large coyotes at our place in south central OK. Some easliy go 75 pounds. Some folks claim that those large coyotes have red wolf blood. Methinks they may be coydogs.
I wanted to do that once a couple years back at my aunt and uncles place. They have a lot of coyotes around there, and you can hear them howling most every evening. I took my ML to hunt deer, but I also brought my .22-250. The plan was that if I shot a deer with the ML, I'd then set up over the gut pile with the .22-250 and see if I could nail a coyote or two. But I didn't get a deer that year so that plan didn't work out.
Mike