Was deer hunting the last week. So we drive out a swamp and I watch my cousin shoot a deer(doe). It drops and gets up and hobbles back into the swamp where I jumped it. So we find it still alive and put it down and drag it out. He rolls it over to gut it and we notice the whole underside of the hinds are chewed up and scabbed over and the tail is stripped off and only the bone is left. Its all infected and pussed. it was a yearling and was running with three mature deer we didint get a shot at. I figured coyotes got at it and the older deer probably drove them off or it hunkered down in that swamp to get away. The meat in both hinds was pretty bad so we drug it back and left it for the scavengers. The next day the whole thing was gone, drug off by one of the bears that roams the place I figure.
What say you? I have seen and heard coyotes in the area but wasnt sure if they preyed on grown deer?