I picked up the blood trail in the snow again this morning, just after sunrise. Found him laying not more than 75 yards from where I stopped tracking him last night. He ended up bleeding out right in the middle of the bedding area. As I approached the thicket I assumed I was jumping deer out of there, but it ended up being two german shepherds & a black lab. The lab & one of the shepherds ran off a ways but the other stayed tight to the carcass of my deer that they & Im guessing coyotes utterly destroyed during the night. The shepherd was acting pretty mean & kept growling & posturing as if to attack me but after a barking & yelling match between the two of us, I finally ran him off far enough to check the scene. These mother ****ers had eaten so much of this buck that if I hadnt tracked him there myself, I wouldnt have believed that it was my deer. You can see by the pictures below that they really did a number on him. They tore his legs off & two of them I couldnt find, so Im assuming there were more dogs working on him than the three that remained as I got there.The thing that makes me sick & also something that Ive never seen before is that the bucks antlers were broke off at the skull. Ive never seen a buck have his antlers broken off from coyotes or dogs. Im assuming they broke them off while pulling & ripping him up. I searched the area for over three hours looking for the broken antlers but with the snow cover, I never found them. Those three dogs barked at me the entire time I was there & Im pretty sure that the neighbors a couple miles off could probably hear me cussing & yelling all the way out there. Im so ****ing pissed about the whole thing. Come the end of season, Ill be killing a coyote pack & if I see those three dogs on our place again, Ill be killing them too. Im wishing now that I had just shot all three of them this morning.

Here are the pics. You can see where they pulled his antlers off & ate his face. They devoured most of his back half as well. Looked to me that they drug alot of him off with them as they left the area because I couldnt find most of his body any where in the area & as I said, I searched the area for hours.







Anyways, Im not going to be back out until friday now, & since my #2 hit lister is now gone, Ill put some points on the board with one of the smaller bucks we’ve been passing on. I may be down, but Im definitely not out, & I am as pissed off as a rattlesnake in a pentecostal church.