Originally Posted by Backwoods cowboy
So answer me this, if deer bled good for 100 yards. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume deer would lay down after not being pressured? If so would I be wrong to expect at least , a half decent dog, would track it till it jumped it or at least beyond last place I found last blood. Neither of which happened with me. Neither dog really took track from the start. Which is why I think it was dog. But idk

From my experience dog hunting, no, a deer will not lay down after a short distance with a flesh wound. I have put my dogs on deer that people shot with only a few specs of blood. It will be a damn half mile before they catch up to it. I won’t the do it anymore. Unless I either have them on a leash or there are people on the other side to stop the dogs.