Loren had received a call from a hunter yesterday that he had shot a deer, it had dropped, got over into some brush and laid there for a while before getting up and staggering off. Loren called and asked if I would want to help on the track and I reluctantly agreed.

I met up with the hunter, Loren and Rory and we hit the trail. At the shot site we noticed pieces of leg bone (I felt a little better about the track at this point). I turned Scout loose while Loren and Rory worked on lead. It wasn't long before I looked at the GPS and Scout was out 300 yds. She continued on to a point where she was about 600 yds from the shot site. She stopped for a second and I thought she had found the deer DOA. She then turned and come back to me and I told the hunter she had found him but he was still alive. With all the blood they had followed they felt there was no way the deer was still alive. We let Loren and Rory follow the trail and we got to the point the deer was bedded when Scout got up to him.

At this point the buck had crossed a wide open field and we felt he would be bedded not far into the woods. Loren and Rory worked that way as Scout and I stayed off to the side. Once they got to the wood line the buck jumped up and took off. We got after him and after crossing 3 creeks within a 100 yd stretch Scout and I were able to finish him off about 250 yds from where he was jumped.

The buck had traveled about 1100 yds from shot site.

Scout does not run them down alive like she used to before she got horned 3 times but she has taught me there are other ways to go about catching up with some of these leg shot deer, especially the ones that really will not make it.

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