Really interesting to follow the track. Cool sketch. Like the football analysts use on tv. Appreciate you sharing information with us. Neat stuff
Thanks!.....I think posting up this info will be mutually beneficial for all of us. I think folks will get a better idea of how deer are actually tracked with a dog, what is possible, and what can be done to improve the odds of finding their deer. In turn, it will make my job of finding these deer for you a lot simpler when you already know a little about dog tracking ahead of time. Something that I would really like folks to think about is that if you shoot that coveted buck you spent so much time hunting and really want to find him……be very conservative with how you approach your initial search for the deer. You can ask my buddy bwhunter who saw Otis run right to the gut shot buck at his club. Without the scent trail being muddled up, it becomes nothing more than following the dog. When the scent trail become muddled up really bad then it becomes a puzzle that we have to solve. Weigh your options. If you just shot that buck of a lifetime…..is it worth paying someone $100 bucks or so to bring a dog out to help improve your odds of recovering him? Look, I know that everyone is going to want to do an initial search but just keep it in the back of your mind….If all you did was shoot the deer and walk back to camp, a good dog will likely be able to track right to that deer 90% of the time, be it dead or still alive. It’s the actions of the hunter after the shot the decreases that percentage.
