Who Did This?

Trojan

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Mar 20, 2009
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I have been asked about this and thought I would tap into the collective here!

This was found on the edge of Bath at the Scout campsite.

Any idea who would have killed a deer (I think it is) and not left anything else?

Thanks

Trojan
 

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Broch

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It's likely the deer is either road-kill or died naturally in some way and some carnivore has carried the leg off with it - could be fox, dog, badger or even possibly one of the larger carrion birds such as buzzard or raven. Nothing sinister about scattered herbivore remains; we get sheep bits scattered all over the hills here :)
 
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gonzo_the_great

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Nov 17, 2014
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Deer stalkers/shooters will often remove the head and lower legs, after doing a gralloch (removing the guts). And then they would take them away to dispose of.
But, a stalker would make a neat cut at the lower part of the knee joint. That looks more like an animal had been knawing.
 

Robson Valley

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Nov 24, 2014
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Nobody lives forever. Scavengers take dead animal remains apart very quickly.

Here, we don't bother to "dispose" of hunting gut piles. Pointless.
30 minutes to 24 hours and even the bloodied soil will be gone.
There's absolutely no logical reason to attempt to bury anything.
That deer leg bone could have been dragged for miles in the first night.
 

gonzo_the_great

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Unless it's near a path or watercourse, the gut gralloch will probbaly be left. But the head and legs tend to get taken away.
It's tidier and less risk of media fall out from a dog walker getting one presented to them by fido.
 

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