Black bear have been spotted in our area but it's rare. The little research I've done just now says that coyotes tend to eat a deer's internal organs first and then the other parts of the deer. I know for a fact we have a pack of coyotes that run around our area.
Was doing some work on our neighborhood retention pond yesterday evening and stumbled upon this along the tree line. I'm suspecting it's a coyote kill and it was very fresh. Had to have been killed early yesterday morning. Looked like they only went after the organs. This is in Sugar Hill.
So my body is used to a 6:30 AM "BM". When I am hunting, I try to "force" a 4:00 AM "BM" and am usually successful with it. Why is it that without fail as soon as I get up into my stand around 6:15 AM nature starts calling...:painkiller:
I feel your pain. I took a shot at a moving buck and just grazed him. The thing ran (more trotted) into some thick stuff and stood there for 10 minutes mocking me. Couldn't get a follow up shot. I found a couple drops of blood where he was standing and nothing more.
Just took a shot at a spike about 20 minutes ago. He just walked about 20 yards into thick brush where I could barely see his head and just stood there about 10 minutes after I fired then took a few slow steps out of view. I'm going to give him another 10 min or so before I go looking.
In my stand now. Heard a few when I was walking in. About ten minutes later heard one coming towards me right before sun up but then nothing. Squirrels are active.