Dang, I just found this thread and I'm tired just reading it. You guys need some cooler weather and everyone needs to aim real good for a couple of days for you and Otis to get rested up.
I hear you brother. It definitely won’t hurt my feelings if we don’t get any calls this evening. Otis could use the rest. He was still a little sore today but not as bad. If you’ve ever lifted weights and know what it feels like when you first start…..I think he has that same type soreness. That really long day we had took its toll on us.
This afternoons track was just a scratched-up deer. My best guess is that it was grazed across the brisket. The shooter was 7 years old and it was about a 125 yard shot. Grandad said she completely missed the first shot but on the second one the deer just bolted out of the field….no kick….no hop…..nothing of that sort. There was just a few specks of blood at the hit site and a little about waist high on some sedge where the deer went out of the field. We tracked it for about 600 yards before calling it off. We didn’t find anywhere where it tried to bed up or any more blood. We both agreed that the hit wasn’t as good as they hoped.
