This one turned out to be a pretty routine recovery at 350 yards from the hit site. The deer was hit just in front of the hindquarter. I think a possum or something got on him before we got there and is why you see gut hanging out. One thing to note about this track is that the first bed we found where the deer laid down was at the 100 yard mark. You could tell it had spent a lot of time in that bed too because the grass was really pressed down to the point of forming a very distinct bed.
Had the hunter started searching for this deer any at all then he would have surely jumped him out of that bed and pushed him a lot farther. As it was though, the deer likely laid there for hours before getting up and moving another couple hundred yards down into the creek bottom where we found him bedded up on the side of the creek branch. Give bad shots plenty of time before tracking them.
