Found him today, he would have been a huge Buck in the coming years.

Whatever got him jumped on him while he was bedded, found the bed with hair and followed a struggle trail and the struggle only went 15 yards.... quick kill.

My instinct tells me Lion, as what looks like the paunch is sitting outside of the carcass uneaten. Mountain Lions always pull the guts out of Big game animals and do not eat them so I have heard. Also the carcass is neat and intact, legs still attatched no pieces of carcass here and there.

I spent a ton of time here when the season closed and we had big snow depths (for here) last winter to try and learn more about these Deer and their travelling. Never saw one cat track, but would be naive to think they weren't around. Seen lot's of Bear and Coyotes.

What are your thoughts? Lion or Coyote or.....

Here he is last month on T-cam