it went for about 80 yards and he found a fresh fawn kill covered up under a mesquite bush. This was Monday morning, I got there Monday evening and we went out about 9:00 and the fawn was not there anymore.Can a bobcat drag a small deer that far?

Did your buddy see any tracks?

Yes a big bobcat could drag a this year fawn that far

no on the tracks, we both looked, seems the drag marks were erasing the tracks.

Bobcat could probably do it...lion could def. do it

most likely mountain lion or panther.

LOL they are one in the same.....

If it is a big cat, it will probably be gone but I am about to go buy an electronic caller and give it a try Tuesday.

big healthy bobcat would have no problems doing that. if it was a fawn like you speculated, a mt lion would have taken it much farther.

It could be either a lion or bobcat. I've seen them both kill and drag their pray a long way. I've also seen them kill and eat it right there. It just depends on how close cover is or where they feel safe. Next time leave the kill right where it is and get someone over with some cat hounds. The cat will usually revisit it that night and you'll have fresh tracks to run. Then you'll know for sure once you get it dead.

Or Game Camera.

I would say Mountain Lion.

bobcat

I bet it was black.

a fawn this time the year? yall should of sit up an hunted to see what came back to the kill.

had a coyote or a group of coyotes drag a nice 100# hog about 30 yards it kinda blew my mind...

Seems like a cat to me if it was covered up. Usually that's what a cat will do. We have seen this on our game cameras. Bobcat finds a deer carcass, drags it just inside the woodline and covers it up with brush. Pretty neat to see. Then, she lays and watches it all night. When something shows up to claim it she plays guard dog. I'm gonna go look for the pics right now.

Found two of the pictures...

Here's the cat getting ready for the drag.



The camera ran out of batteries and we changed them on the 11th. We saw it's drag line and the carcass covered up in the woods. We backed out very quickly and here's what happened. A couple of days later it is back to check/eat. You can still see it's drag line.



After that we had numerous pictures of animals coming in and checking the area. Everything including does, bunch of pigs, and about 10 different yotes. None of them actually went over to what it had covered up though. Maybe they smelled where it had marked it's meal or something. Still trying to find the pictures we have of it sitting in the woodline guarding the carcass.