Originally Posted By: Bigbamaboy
Originally Posted By: Deadwood
They are also the same ones that "back out" and leave a shot deer for in the morning because they don't know how to blood trail on a crappy hit.


I don't care one way or another, but I disagree with you on this. Sometimes the best thing to do is leave a deer laying till it dies instead of pushing it off into a gulf or cutover where it will never be retrieved.

My BinL once shot a deer that made a figure 8 and went off in a deep holler. We crawled for about a half mile tracking that deer in the dark. When we found the second place it bedded down we stopped. Went back the next morning and it wasn't 50 yards from the last place we jumped it. It was headed off in a cove where we would have lost it for good.

Part of being a good tracker is knowing when to stop.


I agree BBB, if you shoot one right at dark with a bad hit , worst thing you can do is chase it all over the woods at night. No way to prove it , but I'd bet there have been way more deer lost pushing them than waiting.



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