Sorry to hear about your misfortune Cardeer. You sound angry and frustrated and who can blame you. Sometimes the only luck we get is bad luck. Believe me, I know. I hope things turn around for you.

Look on the bright side cardeer,

You didn' t fall and break all your ribs and get knocked unconscious like last year. You weren' t beaten up by anti-crossbow people. No one shot 20 holes in your blind with a rifle. The neighborhood didn' t self-destruct on you and blow into 100 pieces. No hot air balloons landed on the deer.....................

Sounds like one of your better days this year

You took the words right out of my mouth again, Rack...

i hate to hear that cardeer, hopefully you' ll have better luck in the future, it sounds like you have one heck of a place to hunt,

by the way, thanks again for the necklace, hopefully i' ll get a nice one this year! i' ll keep you posted, good luck to you with the rest of your season.

Those yotes are starting to become a problem in my area as well. My hunting parner gut shot a doe 2 weeks ago. He watched her bed form his stand, and waited until dark to climb down. We walked back to the trucks to drop some gear and get ready for the drag out, when we heard the yotes yelping. It was less than 10 min from the time he left her till the yotes were on her. We never did find that doe.

BTW: many of his chickens, and ducks have started to come up missing, so they are really starting to encroach onto developed property.

Sorry to hear that CD. I know how you feel--I lost the back half of a large doe a couple years ago to yotes. Everything behind the shoulders was down to bone. And the day before, I had lost part of the hindquarters of a different deer in a completely different area!

I cant answer for cardeer , but I sure as hell wouldn' t waste my tag on a half eaten carcass!

Your luck will change soon cardeer!! I can feel it!

Car if i was you id be cuttin some horns off and be tellin those people they can kiss my @$$ stupid yotes[:@]

Ok here it goes.If I tag it I could get another tag from the PGC.Still would have to give up the antlers.No big deal. If I dont tag it I still have a tag just like if they gave me another one. So whats the point???? Either way I have a tag. If your point is that aint fair cause I get to hunt 2 buck,dont see the point.They PGC would do the same thing with tainted meat.A deer eatin up by yotes is tainted.How would like to eat meat after all that bacteria from the yotes mouth was on it??? That is what is called Infectous control sense. If that makes me bad by not tagging a tainted eat up deer,then I guess in your eyes I' m a bad guy. The antlers aint that important to me.And at 10.00 a point,which is what the PGC charges, 60.00 is better spent for the next deers butcher bill.

Bad luck car. There' s a coyote problem on the farm I hunt in Venango county too. Total man hours spent on stand...Around 50. Total deer seen...2. Coyotes seen...5 That' s pretty bad man. When a guy is seeing more yotes than deer something is out of whack. This area has been very good to me in the past but right now, I have zero confidence in the stand. I' m positive the coyotes have the deer run off. Used to see lot' s of deer on the farm. Would see them every time out. Now...forget it.[:' (] Heck, if I was a deer I would certainly find a better place to bed and travel through to get where I have to go. Certainly not bedding down amongst all the coyote stench. I say carry the magnum in your pack regardless of the PGC. Do they want the woods overrun by coyotes or not? Sometimes the PGC has their heads wedged on certain issues. Jim