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If Otis ever gets scared or nervous while we’re here at home, he’ll run and hide behind my recliner. I guess that’s just where he feels safe and secure. I don’t think deer are much different. They have a core area that they can go to where they feel safe and secure just like Otis does. This is not just going off of my experience but what I’ve been told by other trackers as well….but many of these tracks end up leading in a circular pattern if you track the deer far enough. The deer often times may exit the hit area in one direction only to get out there a few hundred yards and begin to loop back to where they originally came from. They’re heading back to that safe spot to get behind the recliner. It’s pretty common also for there to be an abrupt change of direction….even backtracking along the deer’s original trail. I bet this is where many blood trails are lost. Its seems like as human trackers we are always trying to proceed in a straight line in front of us.

On my next tracks I need to work on making a cleaner more deliberate loop out around the search area to find the clean scent line. I’ve been way to sporadic with how I went about it….looping out to areas where I assumed the deer to go rather than just using the GPS to start at last blood and draw a clean circle on the screen. I’ve been doing a pattern that looked more like a turkey fan out ahead of last blood. I think this simpler pattern will also make it easier to click in Otis’s head and him realize how he can work this puzzle on his own. I think the sporadic search pattern I’ve been doing may just be confusing him a little. This is his biggest hurdle to get over right now. He runs the search area maze a little bit and then becomes uncertain what to do. Let's try this a little differently on the next run and see what happens.