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Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby checkerfred » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:53 am

Come across this deer hair all over the place. I thought someone killed a deer at first but no bones, no blood, no guts, no disturbed ground like someone dragged it or anything. Thoughts? Could it be from a buck fight? Do deer get mange? Rut sex? Lol


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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby Tufrthnails » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:03 am

No I don't ever remember coming across anything like that without evidence of a fight/kill.
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby wmahunter » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:25 am

more like coyotes attacked and left hair behind.
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby treeroot » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:09 am

I've seen that where people dump the skin and butchered carcase. Carcase usually gets dragged off a ways by the coyotes.

Or you found where Bigfoot scratches his back.
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Unread postby checkerfred » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:49 pm

treeroot wrote:I've seen that where people dump the skin and butchered carcase. Carcase usually gets dragged off a ways by the coyotes.

Or you found where Bigfoot scratches his back.


Maybe that’s it. The carcass not Bigfoot lol...I don’t wanna have to worry about him walking in or out in the dark :lol:
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby checkerfred » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:49 pm

burkhart wrote:Could be other small game like rabbit or a coon



It’s def deer hair
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby headgear » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:16 pm

You can find a ton of hair in the spring/shedding but not this time of year, could be a fight as mentioned, I can't come up with anything else.
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby Kraftd » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:33 pm

What area? Wolves will clean a
Kill site up pretty darn well. Mountain lions will lick hair off and then could have dragged it off and buried it. Not sure if either is a possibility or not.
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Unread postby elk yinzer » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:43 pm

That deer is dead somewhere, you just didn't find the carcass.
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Unread postby Boogieman1 » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:34 pm

I've never seen nothing like that! But did one time hear a drag out buck fight and when I went to the scene of the crime if was nothing like that, looked like a bulldozer hit the ridge with blood and kicked up dirt and broke small trees. That looks like a deer died and decomposed and rotted remains dragged off after the fact to me.
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby checkerfred » Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:53 pm

Kraftd wrote:What area? Wolves will clean a
Kill site up pretty darn well. Mountain lions will lick hair off and then could have dragged it off and buried it. Not sure if either is a possibility or not.


It’s alabama so no wolves that I know of. The state says we don’t have mt lions but people have seen them and we used to a long time ago so who knows
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby checkerfred » Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:54 pm

Boogieman1 wrote:I've never seen nothing like that! But did one time hear a drag out buck fight and when I went to the scene of the crime if was nothing like that, looked like a bulldozer hit the ridge with blood and kicked up dirt and broke small trees. That looks like a deer died and decomposed and rotted remains dragged off after the fact to me.


There was no disturbed ground that would suggest anything was dragged. Definitely odd. I’ve heard two big bucks fighting before too and from the sound of it there would have to be turf all kicked up.
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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:28 am

headgear wrote:You can find a ton of hair in the spring/shedding but not this time of year, could be a fight as mentioned, I can't come up with anything else.

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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby Kraftd » Tue Dec 19, 2017 1:13 am

checkerfred wrote:
Kraftd wrote:What area? Wolves will clean a
Kill site up pretty darn well. Mountain lions will lick hair off and then could have dragged it off and buried it. Not sure if either is a possibility or not.


It’s alabama so no wolves that I know of. The state says we don’t have mt lions but people have seen them and we used to a long time ago so who knows


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Re: Ever seen anything like this?

Unread postby BA-IV » Tue Dec 19, 2017 2:28 am

I when I first glanced at the picture, it looks like a hawk or owl got a hold of a cat squirrel. I've seen it a time or two of a deer stand, and both times they de-furred (can't call it skinning :lol: but close) that squirrel quick like before they ever went to eating it.


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