There wasn’t a whole lot to the first track from the call last night. The deer had bedded up about 250 yards away and the dogs led us straight to him. We were expecting to find an eat up deer but instead what we found was a live deer!.....Fortunately, he was too weak to run at this point and the hunter was able to slip in and put another arrow in him. He said that he had been getting pics of this deer for 3 years and felt like he was at least 5 ½ years old. He said he had much better younger bucks on the place and had been trying to take this guy out.

You can barely see the original shot hole just above Shelby’s head. The hunter did the right thing by backing out last night. Had he went stomping around the woods last night looking, he would have very likely ran the deer much, much farther than where we found him. It's very interesting too that the yote didn't find him.....maybe he just passed right by the scent line and never picked it up.