Congrats man should be a lot of business with deep pockets at Enon
That actually wasn’t the end of the story
I figured I’d just break it up so it wasn’t so long winded. We actually tracked one more that afternoon after the filmed “gut shot” deer. It was a high backstrap shot that everyone knew was likely unrecoverable but they wanted me to check it out anyways. The hunter said he knew he had put a really bad shot on the deer right in no man’s land. All the sign pointed toward that being the case as well. The blood was very, very sparse and petered out within 40 yards.
I turned Otis loose not knowing how well he was going to work after having already tracked the other deer. He didn’t have quite as much spunk in him as normal but he still lit out on the track with good enthusiasm. It took us about 30 minutes but eventually we tracked up on the buck bedded down on a little drainage only a few hundred yards from the shot. I heard Otis cut loose in front of me “Yep! Yep! Yep!”…Just then the buck bolted out of the bushes and bounded over the hill top in front of me. I watched him running through the sedge for a couple hundred yards and it was obvious that he wasn’t hurt that bad. I toned Otis ….pulled him off the track and ended it there since we had verified what had happened. Those type shots are rarely recovered.
It was getting on into the afternoon by the time I finished up the second track and after shooting the breeze with the manager for a minute or two I headed back home. On the short ride home I started noticing deer everywhere out feeding early in the evening. Deer in this field….deer in that field…etc. I thought to myself….”Dammit! I need to go get in my stand!” By the time I could get home and run out the back door to head to my stand there were already 3 young bucks feeding in the back end of my field. They saw me and bounded off. I got to one of my ground blinds and it wasn’t 20 minutes later they came back along with eventually 11 other deer….one which I started to pull the trigger on. He looked older but had half his rack broke off and the side that was left was mostly just a big main beam. He must be a brawler.
It’s heating up here. Something is going to take a dirt nap soon.
