Originally Posted by Backwoods cowboy
If deer only puts out scent when it's mortally wounded, how would one acquire that scent to train with , without a mortally wounded deer? I know there has to be more to it because I have also witnessed dog "blood trailing" without blood. Never really thought of it till this happened but has really got me curious on what these dogs are smelling when they are tracking a deer

Get a processor to save feet off that deer that run a lil bit and make a tracking stick and get the goo from the gland and smear it it on the foot and go fo a walk