Ready for a long story? You'll hear all sorts of crap about a deer that big but this was a free range wild, Worth Co., Ga. deer, killed and recovered 100% legally, on Wed. Here's what happened. I have tracked for this hunter and his buddy several times before and last year in archery season Annie found a big bowkill for him. I was in N. Fla. tracking earlier this year and ran into him in a store. Well, last Wed. he called early afternoon and told me he had shot a monster and wanted no one but Annie to track it. I had to tell him about Annie being killed by the gator about 3 weeks ago. But I told him I had a lot of confidence in my new Lab, Reba, as she has found 8 this year already. I also told him I would get my friend Taylor Farrow to show up with his Drahthaar, Aggie. Aggie and Reba work well together and they will both catch. We showed up in an hour within one minute of each other, good timing. Before the hunter called me, his buddy had gone up the creek to shoot the deer if the hunter jumped it. Sure enough he had a quick shot at it's rear end. Starting here instead of the original hit site, we found a tiny piece of skin with hair attached and 3_4 drops of blood along the trail. The deer had been shot 3 times with 00 buck & once with a 308. After trailing with both dogs on lead, things just didn't look good or add up, blood petered out & no dead or bedded deer. Taylor and the hunters buddy went back to the original hit site while the hunter and I kept tracking the deer. Taylor's Drahthaar, Aggie finally found the buck not far from where it had been shot. We had been tracking a different wounded buck the whole time and I am pretty sure it was only lightly grazed.
