I tracked a back whack deer earlier for a good friend. He is pretty much surrounded by houses and subdivision. Muzz struggled with it from the beginning but finally picked his head up and took off. I knew the deer had jumped up ahead of us by Muzzs reaction. He ran into a small triangle of hardwoods the ended at 231 hwy. I could see him 309 yards away and close to the highway so I toned him off. I hear something running and my buddy says it's my buck. Well he jumps a fence and lands 10 yards in front of us. He's looking back at Muzz and never noticed us. Shot looked to be 3 or 4 inches up from the base of the neck and barely missed completely going over the top. Had houses 40 yards away in the back ground and no way was I even considering shooting at him. He jumped 2 chain link fences and cut through a subdivision. Was still a pretty neat experience I guess

9 days later a piece of a tree bud from the stick in New Market popped out from behind my eye. What a relief

Ewwww damn......Probably lucky that didnt end up worse than it did. Sticks in the eye and stepping in stump holes seems to be two of the biggest hazards.

Yea, I'm usually pretty cautious about things like that but slipping on ice caught me off guard

That hurts just thinking about it!!

Dang Man! Hope you are getting immediate relief.

Scout was able to get on the track of an awesome double droptine buck Monday night. Not much of a story. 275-300 yd, simple 4 or 5 min track. Very little spots of blood for first 140 yds or so then none for 30-40 yds then it opened up. Shot with crossbow, quartered to with no exit.
The hunter and friend had spent 2.5-3 hours on hands and knees to get the 140 yds. They were like "dang next time we will just save our time and call".


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Awesome rack. Glad it didn't go to waste. Great job !

Indeed

Recovered a heck of nice 8 pt tonight……It was a gimmie track but we’ll take it…..The deer didn’t go 25 yards off of the powerline but veered off the main trail into the bushes and didn’t bleed a drop due to no exit hole. The hunters and searchers walked right by him and were looking in the woods way out past him.

Had another one today that I hope to get a call on tomorrow……Shot with a bow this morning around 7:30…..Shot was pretty low and back…..We tracked to him and jumped him around 3:45 this evening……He bayed up for the dogs several times but kept breaking and going farther before we could ever catch up…..He was headed for a paved road that stays pretty busy with logging trucks so we had to call it. He ended up skirting the edge of a big pond about 150 yards from the road and that’s where I toned the dogs off in hopes he beds up near the lake instead of jumping the road……The hunter is supposed to go back in the morning and check it out.

Loaded up another buck for a youth hunter this morning before the rain…..Pretty routine bay and dispatch on a leg hit

I've had enough of chasing scratched up deer. Dogs bayed him 900 yards from the shot site. Held him till I got 150 yards away and never slowed down again. It's been a rough season for us
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We didn’t have much better luck today……Went to a bow hunting club to try and help recover one stuck this morning but no luck…..Got to see some pretty deer woods though……

That’s a beautiful stand of timber.
I sure hope I live long enough to see my place look like that.
It was just planted in containerized Longleaf last week.

Recovered a nice 9 pt this morning that was leg shot yesterday evening……The coyotes beat us to this one and already had him bayed, dispatched, and eaten by the time we found him this morning roughly 700 yards from the hit site.

Yeah, that's some really pretty land......That kinda stuff really holds the deer too