The hunter must have zipped this one right under the deer’s belly and just barely caught it in the guts or something. We talked a little more about it…. and he said the deer jumped straight up in the air, which is pretty common for that type hit. We tracked it and got it up at around 300 yards. We caught up to him one time at around 700 yards but he took off again before we could get any kind of shot on him. He still looked pretty lively but slower than normal. At around 900 yards he crossed the back road and went into some chest high pines on another piece of property. We backed out on him there in hopes that the hunter can get in touch with those landowners tonight and we can go back in tomorrow at lunch. If he’s mortally wounded he should stop and bed in that stand of young pines. Maybe they’ll call me back tonight with permission to continue pursuing him.
