I Would Not Have Believed It...

[yomomma]

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

Eating a rabbit

 

[Donny Fenn1]

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 have a friend that guides hunters for all sorts of big game. Up front he tells them, it doesn't matter what we are hunting if a coyote shows up it's now a coyote hunt.

Re: the deer and others eating the gutpiles or remains of their buddies. There was a PhD student from UofA IIRC that did his or her whole thesis on gophers eating the remains of their dead friends. Al of my buddies that grew up with me shooting gophers were like, duh, common knowledge.

 

[the spank]

I have a friend that guides hunters for all sorts of big game. Up front he tells them, it doesn't matter what we are hunting if a coyote shows up it's now a coyote hunt.

Re: the deer and others eating the gutpiles or remains of their buddies. There was a PhD student from UofA IIRC that did his or her whole thesis on gophers eating the remains of their dead friends. Al of my buddies that grew up with me shooting gophers were like, duh, common knowledge.

Yes that's common knowledge if you live in gopher country. I shot 10 in a row one day making a single pile from the first kill. LOL