I Would Not Have Believed It...

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If it wasn't captured on the trail camera I set out.

Hopefully this link works. I put out the carcass from a deer I shot after butchering it hoping to bait a coyote. I put the carcass out in a pasture Wednesday afternoon(23rd) around 4pm. Look at the times and date on the info-strip. At the end of the video is a short section taken during the daylight hours for clarity purposes.

https://clipchamp.com/watch/U3hzN5FLCGp
 
yomomma said:
I've shot a deer that was standing over the gut pile of the deer I shot that morning, nothing new
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I was told to field dress them away from my stand as it puts them out of the area but this kind of shows you can dress them where you drop them. Obviously I was told one of those old b.s tales that someone actually believes is gospel. I've yet to drag one away from where I've dropped it until after it was gutted. Why haul that extra weight around?!
 
Yes, deer do thing we do not expect them to do.
I shot a very nice muley in Salmon Arm in 1968.
The next day I shot his twin not 25 yards from
the gutpile of the other deer. Dave.
 
Yeah don't worry about the gut pile too much. Things die all the time out in the wild. I don't think they really care too much. Seen them walk through gut piles, around them, have had deer come by when field dressing another, etc. Nothing new or out of the ordinary in my experience
 
I have seen deer come up and eat the contents that spilled out of the stomach of a gut pile from a gut shot deer. Or at least sniff and lick them. Maybe not so much as continually feed of it. It wasn’t a harsh winter and in an area surrounded by alfalfa and crop land.
I mainly don’t like leaving gut piles that close to hunting areas so the yotes don’t come in. I’ll ruin my deer hunts to kill coyotes every time hahahaha
No gut pile lessens the chances of having to make that choice.
 
I've watched video of deer eating song birds, plucking them off of a live capture net put up by researchers and munching them down , feathers and all.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a deer foraging off of a carcass after watching them pound down those little birds. Google it, you'll see.
 
I'm disappointed in the video. I was expecting a clip of Sasquatch riding a tame polar bear and leading a string of pack unicorns in tow.
 
45ACPKING said:
I've watched video of deer eating song birds, plucking them off of a live capture net put up by researchers and munching them down , feathers and all.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a deer foraging off of a carcass after watching them pound down those little birds. Google it, you'll see.
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Interesting, I think :confused:

maple_leaf_eh said:
I'm disappointed in the video. I was expecting a clip of Sasquatch riding a tame polar bear and leading a string of pack unicorns in tow.
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Well stay tuned, lord knows what will show up next on the cameras?! ;)
 
I shot a doe a few years ago in a group of 4 and for the next few days one of the other does, i assume her fawn/yearling kept coming back to the area and hanging out around the gut pile.

I would the biggest thing that keeps them away from an area with a gut pile is when the coyotes and crows and such descend on it. The commotion and risk involved with that whole area will make them stay away for a bit.
 
45ACPKING said:
I've watched video of deer eating song birds, plucking them off of a live capture net put up by researchers and munching them down , feathers and all.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a deer foraging off of a carcass after watching them pound down those little birds. Google it, you'll see.
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I saw one where a deer was eating either eggs or chicks out of a songbirds nest in an alder patch. Protein is protein.
 
45ACPKING said:
I've watched video of deer eating song birds, plucking them off of a live capture net put up by researchers and munching them down , feathers and all.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to see a deer foraging off of a carcass after watching them pound down those little birds. Google it, you'll see.
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The video I recall best was one of a baby bird doing it's "Feed Me" routine, and the deer munching it down.

Nothing survives the hard times, if it isn't willing to use every resource available!
 
DU did a study by placing clay eggs in duck nests so they could identify predation by the teeth marks. Number 1 predator, whitetail deer.
 
I have watched deer eat the frozen fat off a gutpile and not.once, but many times. Having said that, I still don't gut near my stand unless I am done hunting for the year.
 
ya we started dragging them out whole in my blacktail deer spot where my treestand is. Just brings in the predators and screws things right up for the other friends who hunt my stand.
Predators were the reason I stopped hunting there in my ground spot and the treestand has been great. Some nice bears wander thru that spot and i might just shoot one .... one day maybe LOL

deer eating birds..... too fascinating just had to post it LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJopqdzKSNQ&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VR56r7V_bs&t=69s
 
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