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Topic: deer carcasses
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Miss Chris
Member Posts: 294
From: Wimberley, Texas
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted January 06, 2009 08:56 AM
 
Did anyone else see the deer carcasses, strung up on the fence line, on RR12 this morning? There were 4-6, on the left hand side of the road, as you are going to San Marcos. Does anyone know why they would be there?
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starstruck
Member Posts: 588
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted January 06, 2009 06:40 PM
If the meat was gone and it was just the heads and skins it is the mark of a great and mighty hunter. Sort of like raising the biggest cucumber for the county fair.
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XIIthMan
Member Posts: 309
From: Wimberley, TX
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted January 06, 2009 07:55 PM
It really takes a mighty hunter to sit 25 yards from a corn feeder and wait for a deer to come by.
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XIIthMan
Member Posts: 309
From: Wimberley, TX
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted January 06, 2009 08:20 PM
Apparently they aren't deer, they're coyotes. I used to see this back in the 70's.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/hillcountry/entries/2009/01/06/dead_coyotes_along_fence_an_ol.html
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THE GAP
Member Posts: 63
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 06, 2009 08:53 PM
Can't pull up the article but read a couple of blogs that say the reasoning is to warn off other coyotes - wonder if that would work with armadillos  or to show the rancher/farmer you had done them a favor - by trespassing on their property? Anyway it gave me the creeps especially since the body farm is supposed to be in that area.
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starstruck
Member Posts: 588
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted January 06, 2009 10:53 PM
Ah Hah! The solution. I have placed some squashed fire ants all along my propery boundaries as a warning. That's the last of that problem.
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Mr Chievous
Member Posts: 122
From: Wimberley, TX USofA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted January 07, 2009 12:13 PM
Maybe we can come up with a similar idea to ward off developers.....
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XIIthMan
Member Posts: 309
From: Wimberley, TX
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted January 07, 2009 12:54 PM
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Ding, ding, ding! Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
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Reddog
Member Posts: 396
From: dripping springs, tx, usa
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted January 08, 2009 10:02 AM
Nah! Won't work with developers. Coyotes respect each other. Developers don't respect anything.
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Reddog
Member Posts: 396
From: dripping springs, tx, usa
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted January 08, 2009 03:06 PM
12th, do you know how hard it is to hit a 100# white tail at 25 yards with a .300 magnum sighted in at 200 yards?
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Miss Chris
Member Posts: 294
From: Wimberley, Texas
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted January 09, 2009 09:57 AM
San Marcos paper:
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_008113210.htmlI know the ranchers have to protect their livestock but the coyotes are trying feed their pups. What with the drought and humans urbanization, coyotes and other wild animals face more and more survival difficulties.
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kayh
Member Posts: 71
From: Wimberley Texas USA
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted April 14, 2010 06:40 AM
My father and uncle were both ranchers and they had to kill the coyotes otherwise the calves were killed. They would hang the carcasses on the fence to ward off others.
I agree with 12.....it doesn't take skill to sit just beyond the feeder and pick off a deer.
I live in a small "developement" and we have people who drive down the street and when a buck walks out into the road, they stop, grab the rifle, shoot it, load it and are gone in a matter of a minute! It happened several times during the winter months and now most of the beautiful, large buck we did have......are gone.
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