As for another hunter covering the deer, not likely. It is my private property and I found the deer in the morning. I also don't know how the deer covered itself, I only know what I saw. I wish I had taken a picture of it. I was in such a hurry to get it gutted I didn't go back to get a camera. I stood 15 feet from the deer for 10 minutes before I saw it, and then it was only a speck of hair. Someone told me a cougar may have covered it. That''s possible but not likely. I really don't know.how she did it.