strange buddies - The Hull Truth

Kevin Desselle · 10-02-2009, 06:13 PM

Last year after deer season I saw a button buck in a food plot with a coyote eating some deer pellets I put out. I have seen this coyote many times eating deer pellets and even corn but have never seen a deer stand along side and feed with it. In fact every time I saw this coyote come in, the other deer run off snorting like normal. I thought the young buck would end up a easy meal one day until I started putting out game cams a few months ago as season is getting near. I have countless pics of these two feeding together in different places every night. You will see other deer in the pics then all the sudden they run off and guess who shows up. Yes they both come in together and leave together when there done feeding. I have been thinking maybe they just happen to show up at the same feed spots together and have gotten use to each other.
Yesterday afternoon I sat in a stand to check out some nice bucks I was seeing on the cams. Three bucks were standing together eating a pile of feed and all the sudden they ran off blowing. Well here comes a crazy sight. The odd couple for sure! Coyote running in with the deer on its tail. I watched them till dark with the coyote wanting to eat corn and the deer mostly wanting to play . If you ever watched two young year and a half old bucks playing with each other while they are trying to feed, this is just how they acted. The coyote in the end just wanted the deer to leave it alone and ran off with the deer in pursuit. Very funny to watch. I will be sure to bring my video cam with me this year on every hunt for now on. I have been hunting for over 35 years now and what I saw yesterday was a first. On one of these game cams the month is wrong. The month says 3 when it should be a 9 (Sept). You can see clearly that it’s the same lil buck in the other cam. These pics were just taken days ago about a ½ mile apart. I have plenty of game cam pics of just these two together.

day shot of the coyote

Hollywood9s · 10-02-2009, 06:47 PM

Strange for sure, but i have seen my own share of strange in a deer stand.
I was always under the impression that fawns were a target for foxes until i watched a pair of fawns and 3 foxes interact a couple years ago.
I was hunting on a lease that our hunting club had rented at the time, it was October blackpowder season i believe. I was in my stand overlooking a woods road and a small grassy field that was in between some timber and a pine thicket, when 3 good size foxes came out into the road in front of me. They were making some really wierd high pitch screetching noises. Soon after a pair of young fawns came out in the road area feeding with the foxes. To my amazement the fawns acted curious over the foxes and walked up and attempted to sniff them, the foxes would just kind of run around them and not let them get too close. The foxes never acted aggressive towards the fawns, and the fawns never acted the least bit scared.
Complete contradiction to everything i had always heard.

Anyway, good story you shared, that's the kind of stuff that non hunters will never see, and it's really what makes being in a deer stand so great.

Menzies · 10-02-2009, 06:55 PM

Coyote be getting some strange.

davepen · 10-03-2009, 02:37 AM

Shoot the coyote. Leave the deer.

Evil little bastards, and I'm an animal lover...

BestMate · 10-03-2009, 11:23 AM

I guess you could say that you keep your friends close but your enemies even closer...

Kevin Desselle · 10-03-2009, 11:50 AM

Hollywood, Interesting story about the foxes and fawns. Just goes to show you that nature doesn't follow a rule book. Your right, I wish everyone could see what we sometimes see from spending long hours in deer stands.

I have killed my share of coyotes but I hope this coyote doesn't get himself killed. Kinda fun to watch the two. They were on a game cam again last night.

ziess21 · 10-03-2009, 01:39 PM

Deer seem to be pretty playful. Check out this wild one playing with a dog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDMaD...layer_embedded

rocksandblues · 10-03-2009, 07:39 PM

here in va the cOyotes are rebounding. They now say every coyote kills up to 5 deer per year. Deer are still way over populated here. Neighbor shot 12 coyotes last year all out of one field.

billfishnfool · 10-03-2009, 07:51 PM

Kevin,North American Whitetail Television would love to hear your story and video would be awesome!