I seem to learn a little something new on every track and this last one was no different. Had I approached trying to loop out ahead of the search area in a little different fashion….I might have saved Otis and I a lot of wasted time searching in the wrong area. I assumed the deer continued on in a straight line down the creek instead of approaching it from the standpoint that the deer could have very well went in any direction….even backwards. That was a mistake on my part. The next time we run into this scenario where the scent line gets muddled down in the search area…..I’m going to back up a little ways off of last blood and begin to make my circle nearly on a backtrack. Had I done this the other day we might have picked back up on the scent line right off the bat.

We’re gonna get this tracking thing figured out eventually.