Keeping coyotes off your deer

[wmihunter]

So some of the spots I'm hunting are remote and/or rugged. If I shoot a big one I'm gonna run into town and buy a game cart. Coyotes are real thick here. Any ways to keep them at bay until I come back with a cart (approximately 1 hours later)? I was thinking of putting my hunting clothes over the deer and/or peeing around it.

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[Southern Man]

I've always heard if you take a jacket or a shirt that has your scent on it and lay it over the deer, they won't touch it. I don't know if that's true or not, have never tried it. But I haven't had the need to either.

[James]

I had to leave a buck overnight because he died on a steep slope and we need a come along to pull him up, but it wasn't so steep that coyotes wouldn't touch him. I dragged the gut pile down a ways, wrapped a shirt around his back straps and hung my headlamp on his antlers with it set to strobe mode, it's an led so it lasted all night. When we came back in the morning there was a red tailed hawk on the gut pile but the buck was untouched.

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[dan]

Yup... What James said... Not sure your urine will do anything, but jacket and light would. We put a jacket over a friends buck in early season that we could not get out of a remote area on a hunt that had a gate that closes at 10 PM... Lots of yotes, but they did not touch the deer.
And to add to James statement, hawks, vultures, and small critters can wreck a cape really fast too...

[PeteJ]

I like the head lamp James ,will have to try that if it comes to that.

[wmihunter]

Thanks for the info guys!

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[Stanley]

Coveralls draped over the buck. A hat has lots of human scent also.

[solocam88]

Any piece of clothing will keep them away.

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[wibow]

I had to leave a buck overnight because he died on a steep slope and we need a come along to pull him up, but it wasn't so steep that coyotes wouldn't touch him. I dragged the gut pile down a ways, wrapped a shirt around his back straps and hung my headlamp on his antlers with it set to strobe mode, it's an led so it lasted all night. When we came back in the morning there was a red tailed hawk on the gut pile but the buck was untouched.

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Awesome!

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[Dewey]

I threw my jacket over a buck I killed in the northwoods. It was mid-day and by the time I got back to him about an hour later one hind quarter was already half gone. The coyotes pulled the jacket off and it didn't seem to phase them. So much for that theory!

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[Chasman]

Buy the game cart now and you can to the buck much faster. Depending on terrain, a sled works even better than a cart. I have a cart and unless you are in somewhat open woods, logging road, or dyke the cart stinks. Marsh grass, CRP, cattails the sled is your ticket.

[Edcyclopedia]

String it up a tree...

[Jackson Marsh]

I threw my jacket over a buck I killed in the northwoods. It was mid-day and by the time I got back to him about an hour later one hind quarter was already half gone. The coyotes pulled the jacket off and it didn't seem to phase them. So much for that theory!

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You just don't stink enough

[3dpinwheeler]

My buddy hunts Elk. They always leave some clothing and sprinkle baby powder all around the area. Separate the guts and the carcass and baby powder both. They said they never have issue's bear or coyote.

[muddy]

I agree, but the cart now. I have mine chained up in the back of the truck for when I need it. Hopefully I'll need it soon.

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