Well, no recovery on this one. I think the deer was just grazed real good either under the armpit or on the brisket. The hunter was on the side of a ridge shooting down at the deer at a steep angle. He was probably a good 40 ft above the deer. We actually talked a little more about the deer’s reaction and he said the deer stopped and looked back after the shot before walking/trotting off. That leads me to believe that he wasn’t slammed in the body too hard.
We tracked the deer very well in a light rain out to 900 yards before the track went hot at the big creek. I let Otis take it hot for a few hundred yards before calling him off as the sky opened up and went from a light rain to a down pour. We headed back toward the truck but it was too late by then. We got soaked from neck to nuts. That spare change of clothes in the truck came in handy today.
The deer was quartered away and he was shooting down on it at a pretty steep angle. I figure he hit the deer something like this and why the deer bucked up a little when he shot.
