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Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? #1549487
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What is the farthest you’ve tracked a deer after the shot where you’ve ended up finding the deer in the end? This is without using a dog....just normal blood tracking. Where was the deer hit?


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Re: Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? [Re: CNC] #1549491
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A mile give or take


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About a mile or a little better. Bumped him up once, backed off waited about 4 hours and found him about 600 yards from where I bumped him

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Dad shot a small buck just as it jumped a ditch. The bullet sliced it's belly open and it ran off with its guts hanging out. Blood everywhere when he would jump a log his belly woukd hit leaving a big bloody circle. Finally caught up to him and jumped him no shot because the guns were left at the property line. He didn't go maybe 50 yards and laid down. Got up on him and held his rack while dad cut his throat then he jumped up ran a couple yards and bled out. A deers will to live is amazing. If someone shot the skin on the tip of my pinky finger off I'd hit the dirt and start rolling around.


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The only time I have ever shot at a deer with a bow and arrow I trailed her about a quarter mile thru an old cutover bottom before I found her. When I got the deer to the truck I gave up bow hunting and havn't been back.

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I'm with the about a mile club....but it wasn't from blood. My little sister gut shot a 6 point, and of all the ways to track a deer, we tracked him from the corn that was falling out of his guts. That's no lie!

Re: Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? [Re: CNC] #1549574
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Re: Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? [Re: CNC] #1549575
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Keep the stories coming but I’ll go ahead and explain why I’m asking this question in case anyone wants to elaborate on their answer. What I’m trying to get an idea of…. is when I’m tracking a deer with my dog Otis…..how far out is a reasonable distance to track and still have a good chance of finding the deer already dead from the initial shot? I’m already learning that these tracks can quickly go from 400 to 600….to 800…..to 1,000+ yards and farther. I have to believe that you pass a certain point where your odds of the deer being dead from the initial shot/reaction go way down and your odds are much more likely that the deer is still alive out in front of you. Most deer that are hit hard will bed down within a reasonable distance if not pushed. So as I’m tracking, the farther I go….the more I have to start altering my idea of how wounded the deer may be. At some distance you pass a threshold where the probability of finding the deer dead falls off a cliff. Where is that distance?

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Longest I have tracked one was probably about 100 yards. Most of mine have been probably 40 yards or less.


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Originally Posted By: JEM270
Longest I have tracked one was probably about 100 yards. Most of mine have been probably 40 yards or less.


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Re: Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? [Re: CNC] #1549641
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About 300 yards give or take. Shot a big doe at about 40 yards one morning. She ran out of the field with the other three. I waited a few minutes, and went to the edge of the field. Found pools of blood. I was thinking the deer was dead right out of sight, so I pushed on. I jumped her once, and backed out for an hour or so. Basically made a semi circle. Found her 2.5 hours later. Shot through the shoulder, and was dragging a leg when I jumped her. My fault for not giving her enough time, but I honestly thought she was dead.

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It's tough to judge thru terrain, but a mile or so I'd say without a dog. A lot further with a dog.

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My farthest to date is about 1/2 a mile maybe a bit more. I shot a buck about 6 years ago, and after walking off the distance (318 yds.), I realized it was farther than what I thought. I grazed his belly enough to allow the guts to start coming out. I trailed him by following pieces of gut and organs coming out. He eventually lost his stomach. I caught up with him next to a creek dying but very much alive. I put him down for good but felt bad that he had suffered as much as he had. I'm a bit more careful with shot placement now.


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1/4 mile on one of my best bow bucks.


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400 yards My best by bow. He took a few steps just as I touched off the trigger..


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Re: Farthest you’ve tracked a deer? [Re: CNC] #1549975
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to answer yer question.....in my experience once you pass 300 yards yer odds go down on finding that deer, and certainly after 500 yards the odds drop a LOT.

I have tracked a few deer over 500 and found them with a dog. A deer that can go 500+ isn't hit well at all and may not be recoverable...but as long as you have blood I'd keep tracking. Might be able to bay the deer and kill it. I tracked a buck prolly 600 yards before dog bayed a very much alive buck that decided to fight instead of run. It got ugly fast but the deer was shot again and dropped. It had been shot four times by the original hunter, but not in a fatal spot.


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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
to answer yer question.....in my experience once you pass 300 yards yer odds go down on finding that deer, and certainly after 500 yards the odds drop a LOT.


I agree. This will be a little different if it’s a gun or bow but another way of looking at it would be that once you pass lets say 100-125 yards on a gun shot….then you can pretty much cross of the list it being heart or lungs. Once you pass lets say 250 yards with a gun then you could probably write off it being liver or anywhere in that front cavity. Most deer that have been hardcore gut shot will bed up somewhere within 200-500 yards. I think once you pass the 500 yard mark then you have to start assuming that you’re dealing with a pretty marginal hit…..maybe really high or really low. Once you make it out to 750-1000+ then its very likely that your still dealing with a live deer that’s got a flesh wound or busted up leg. This is assuming that the deer hasn’t been heavily pushed just after the shot.

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I agree totally with Troy. I've tracked numerous deer over 500 yards and have only found one of em. One time I shot a big buck. Hit him low I think the first time, then slung another round at him when he was running which hit one of his tines and blew it off. I trailed blood for at least 700 yards before it dried up. Never found him.


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Originally Posted By: CNC
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
to answer yer question.....in my experience once you pass 300 yards yer odds go down on finding that deer, and certainly after 500 yards the odds drop a LOT.


I agree. This will be a little different if it’s a gun or bow but another way of looking at it would be that once you pass lets say 100-125 yards on a gun shot….then you can pretty much cross of the list it being heart or lungs. Once you pass lets say 250 yards with a gun then you could probably write off it being liver or anywhere in that front cavity. Most deer that have been hardcore gut shot will bed up somewhere within 200-500 yards. I think once you pass the 500 yard mark then you have to start assuming that you’re dealing with a pretty marginal hit…..maybe really high or really low. Once you make it out to 750-1000+ then its very likely that your still dealing with a live deer that’s got a flesh wound or busted up leg. This is assuming that the deer hasn’t been heavily pushed just after the shot.


I think you're pretty much spot on with this assessment.

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Originally Posted By: scrubbuck
I think you're pretty much spot on with this assessment.


This is all assuming that the deer hasn’t been pushed by an initial search. From my standpoint as a dog tracker, I may or may not know that from the info the hunter gives me. If someone has done very much searching, then its highly likely that a deer would be pushed at least once if it were inside that 500 yard mark while the searching was taking place. This would take that 300 yard gut shot out to 500-800 yards. In reality, were probably talking about a realistic search zone out to 800-900 yards maybe unless the hunter just got down and backed out before any extensive searching. In that situation, our 500 yard estimate may be more accurate.

I think once I pass 800 yards then I’m going to switch gears and assume that I’m no longer dealing with a dead deer and that its more likely to be a live deer situation. I think once I reach 1500+ yards then there should be real consideration given to calling off the search. Yes, there’s still a small chance that the deer might be able to be wore down by the dog past that point and bayed up…..but when you start talking about going on multiple tracks per week for the general public, then chasing those deer for 2-3 miles with a very low probability of recovering them becomes a lot of unnecessary wear and tear on the dog for no good reason. I have to start thinking about the next track and not wearing out or injuring my ace pitcher.

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