Camera over Deer Carcass - what to expect?
03-30-2007, 08:49 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Camera over Deer Carcass - what to expect?
Okay, I think I've officially crossed the threshold of sanity. Yesterday a co-worker stopped by my land because he was in the area and checked on things and happened to mention that there was a deer that had been killed by a car just 3/4 of a mile from my property.
So I zipped down there last night, threw the carcass in the bed of the truck, dove to the land and plopped it down about 10 feet away from one of my trail cameras.
What should I expect to find on the camera in a week when I go to check on it? I've read that coyotes aren't really into eating things that are already dead, what about bobcats? I wonder if the pigs will come eat it? I figure it will for sure attract some vultures. Hopefully they will do a good job eating it in the next week and it won't be a rotting stinking mess when I go back and check on it.
Anyone else done something like this? Am I completely insane?
So I zipped down there last night, threw the carcass in the bed of the truck, dove to the land and plopped it down about 10 feet away from one of my trail cameras.
What should I expect to find on the camera in a week when I go to check on it? I've read that coyotes aren't really into eating things that are already dead, what about bobcats? I wonder if the pigs will come eat it? I figure it will for sure attract some vultures. Hopefully they will do a good job eating it in the next week and it won't be a rotting stinking mess when I go back and check on it.
Anyone else done something like this? Am I completely insane?
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03-30-2007, 10:45 AM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Camera over Deer Carcass - what to expect?
Not insane at all. I had camera out all winter on skinned beaver carcasses. You get tons of pics of birds. I got pics of skunks, coyotes, cats, dogs, owls like picking at things too. I would love to have had a deer carcass, its illegal for me to pick up roadkill and take it. God knows why. F&G would rather it rot in the ditch I guess.
Don't know why someone would say coyotes dont eat dead stuff. They love dead stuff, the stinkier the better.
Don't know why someone would say coyotes dont eat dead stuff. They love dead stuff, the stinkier the better.
03-30-2007, 11:06 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Camera over Deer Carcass - what to expect?
I didn'tthink about it being illegal to move the road kill. I'll have to check on that! [&:]
I would have to guess this had been dead for about a day already. It had plenty of flies on it and was starting to stink. It looks like one of this years fawns because it was pretty small. I didn't check it out too closely, I was wearing gloves and holding my breath for the most part!
Hopefully I'll get some decent pictures of something!
I would have to guess this had been dead for about a day already. It had plenty of flies on it and was starting to stink. It looks like one of this years fawns because it was pretty small. I didn't check it out too closely, I was wearing gloves and holding my breath for the most part!
Hopefully I'll get some decent pictures of something!
04-01-2007, 08:48 PM
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RE: Camera over Deer Carcass - what to expect?
I tried it once, a few years ago with a 35 mm camera, and the first pic was a coyote, but the noise of the camera scared it, and after that nothing except deer, I did get some pics of deer coming up to it and checking it out. This winter, we butchered a steer, and hauled the carcass back into the woods, and I hung my cuddeback on it, I got several pics of a huge chicken hawk, and a few crows, some deer passing by, and several awesome coyote pics up close and personal. Oh and one red fox, it was pretty cool to get pics of different stuff. Heres a couple pics.
