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first heard the ravens on nov 30 (last day of the rifle season) but didn't investigate. yesterday was out wandering again and decided to check it out, found this guy, upslope there was a few puddles of blood showing through the snow under a tree, but no gore on the snow and no trail leading there, i suspect he laid down there as it started to snow and the coyotes found him after he froze. more snow today, but went out again and took some photos.
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whenever i have "missed" a deer in the past, i have always gone back in the days following and listened for the birds, so far have always been lucky and can say i truly did miss.

ravens,magpies, and camp robbers can be very useful. they often find downed game very quickly, i have had them coming around while field dressing game that i saw fall.
 
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Bone is right, be careful what you wish for when you see ravens in some areas.

This is what might be waiting for you:
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I have first hand experience ;) :runaway:
 
i had my 22 hornet with me so was loaded for bear.

in the past my dog put a blackie up a tree probably 30 yards from where i took that photo.

it has been probably 15 years since i have seen a grizzly in the area.
 
The ravens sense of smell is simply fantastic. They can smell dead from far away. I believe the chemistry and the odour of a dead animal is different than a live one, as well as they can smell of blood from a wound. I have seen ravens find a dead elk in very dense forest. Sometimes the ravens get to my downed animal before I do. I have watched ravens land around a wounded deer that have been injured by a car.


In the wise Viking God, Odin, was always followed by two ravens.
 
I once had a raven lead me to a wounded deer that I was tracking. It was one of the most significant events that I've had while hunting. It really made me feel "connected".
After trailing a badly wounded deer from 9AM to mid-afternoon one December day, I noticed a raven was following me with great curiosity. When I was well on the track, it just observed. Whenever I temporarily lost the track, I noticed it would fly ahead, then he'd start calling, dipping & diving, then come back to me, and calling. I finally realized he was telling me where the deer was. With the raven's assistance, I jumped the deer twice but was unable to put in a finishing shot. At 3Pm he landed in a tall aspen, looked down and called, looked me in the eye and called to me as if to say - he's right here! And he was. He did not spook at the shot and waited in the tree as I did the field dressing. I was glad to leave him the liver and heart, as an extra reward for the help.
 
Longwalker said:
I once had a raven lead me to a wounded deer that I was tracking. It was one of the most significant events that I've had while hunting. It really made me feel "connected".
After trailing a badly wounded deer from 9AM to mid-afternoon one December day, I noticed a raven was following me with great curiosity. When I was well on the track, it just observed. Whenever I temporarily lost the track, I noticed it would fly ahead, then he'd start calling, dipping & diving, then come back to me, and calling. I finally realized he was telling me where the deer was. With the raven's assistance, I jumped the deer twice but was unable to put in a finishing shot. At 3Pm he landed in a tall aspen, looked down and called, looked me in the eye and called to me as if to say - he's right here! And he was. He did not spook at the shot and waited in the tree as I did the field dressing. I was glad to leave him the liver and heart, as an extra reward for the help.
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i've heard of this before, never seen it though. i have had birds find downed game within minutes of shooting it though.

ravens are smart, i am sure they are more than smart enough to realize that they can't do much to a fresh carcass, but once it is gutted they have their choice of the soft bits.

this fall i was sitting waiting for a deer or elk to come by and on two or three occasions had a raven come and perch in a nearby tree, like he was waiting for dinner.

i'm not one of those people that think there's a bear behind every bush, but caution is well advised, i could see where the deer was from ~150 yards away and glassed the area before moving in. there are many black bears around, i rarely see them but often see their overturned rocks and logs.
 
woodchopper said:
found 2 that other hunters shot and did not find this fall by following the birds.

not good
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i am sure that is what happened to the small buck that i posted, cannot be sure of the circumstances though, my hunch is that somebody was hunting my fence line and shot him, and when he didn't drop to the shot, did not follow up. found some 270 shells along there a day or so before it snowed.

the bigger buck though, he was in velvet still when he has his bad luck (whatever it was).
 
MiG25 said:
my hunch is that somebody was hunting my fence line and shot him, and when he didn't drop to the shot, did not follow up. found some 270 shells along there a day or so before it snowed.
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Probably the same guy that was driving around and around your spot earlier this fall :rolleyes:
 
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