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I thought you were going to tell us you in fact did poop in your pants.  We can’t be telling EVERYTHING now 3FF.  That reminds me of a joke. You ever heard the one about the ol’ boy standing up in church to testify and the preacher a hollerin out……“Tell it all!!! Tell it all!!! “
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So they was this ol’ boy stood up in church one Sunday morning and told the preacher that he needed to testify and get some things right with the Lord…..and the preacher said “Alright son, tell it all.” So the ol’ boy started out saying…”Preacher, I’ve been staying out late at night instead of coming home to my wife and kids”…….and the preacher raises his hand in the air and says…..”Tell it all son!...Tell it all!!” So the ol’ boy continues on.....……”and preacher, I’ve been spending up all of my money drankin and gambling instead of paying the bills.”……The preacher gets a little more excited and replies….”Tell it all!!! Tell it all!!!” .... “and preacher, I’ve been laying out of work and not going to my job like I should.”…..The preacher takes out his handkerchief and wipes off his forehead and in a louder voice this time talking to the whole church says….”Hallelujah! Tell it all!!!” And then they ol’ boy says…..”and preacher, I’ve been a runnin around and sleeping with my wife’s sister!”……The preacher puts his handkerchief down….looks at the ol’ boy and says…… “Damn son!!!………..I don’t know if I’d told that!!!!!”
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Dang, can't let this thread just die.......You don't know Gary do you?????
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Dang, can't let this thread just die.......You don't know Gary do you????? I think it's been long enough now that someone needs to take a trip to the Chattanooga Bass Pro Shop......spice things up around here. It's kinda slow since hunting season ended.
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We didn’t go on too many tracks this year that fooled us and just left us stumped…..but if you recall, we had one for bamaeyedoc’s hunting club that left us scratching our heads pretty hard. I tried to go back and find the story to repost but there’s just too much to sift through. Well, Bamaeyedoc sent me a text yesterday saying that he had just located the deer and you’ll never believe where he found it. It was floating in a small pond……50 yards from where the hunter was sitting!! Here’s the crazy part about it. We tracked the deer, with lots of blood, for 300 ish yards…..in the complete opposite direction.  I drew a rough sketch of the situation in the pic below. I show this so y’all can see what kind of crazy things these wounded deer can do. The hunter in this story was convinced that this deer was lung shot and that we just couldn’t locate it in the thick stuff where the blood trail ended and we found the beds. Knowing what we know now…..I really feel like the deer was probably clipped low in the guts and doubled back through the search area like I had originally suspected. The search area is the pink “S” lines. What really hurts is that Otis had originally tried to loop us back in that direction but after not finding any more blood we went back to the bed area and restarted. This deer was putting out a decent amount of blood before it bedded up so me and the hunter both were expecting to find some more spots along the trail but never found anything for several hundred yards. We should have just trusted Otis even if things didn’t “add up” to us. I’ve said that a few times now. The old adage is proving true to just trust your dog. It probably wouldn’t have done us any good on this one at the time anyways though. This was only about 5 hrs after the shot and I’m betting this deer wasn’t even dead yet when we were there. I don't think he ran and got in the pond immediately. I think he probably did that later in the dying process as he started feeling hot. A very interesting track to say the least. Always check the water holes fellas. 
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This little future tracker tells it like it is……”Always trust ye’ heart and always trust ye’ dog.” https://www.facebook.com/kasey.l.logan/videos/2764907248969/
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We didn’t go on too many tracks this year that fooled us and just left us stumped…..but if you recall, we had one for bamaeyedoc’s hunting club that left us scratching our heads pretty hard. I tried to go back and find the story to repost but there’s just too much to sift through. Well, Bamaeyedoc sent me a text yesterday saying that he had just located the deer and you’ll never believe where he found it. It was floating in a small pond……50 yards from where the hunter was sitting!! Here’s the crazy part about it. We tracked the deer, with lots of blood, for 300 ish yards…..in the complete opposite direction. I drew a rough sketch of the situation in the pic below. I show this so y’all can see what kind of crazy things these wounded deer can do. The hunter in this story was convinced that this deer was lung shot and that we just couldn’t locate it in the thick stuff where the blood trail ended and we found the beds. Knowing what we know now…..I really feel like the deer was probably clipped low in the guts and doubled back through the search area like I had originally suspected. The search area is the pink “S” lines. What really hurts is that Otis had originally tried to loop us back in that direction but after not finding any more blood we went back to the bed area and restarted. This deer was putting out a decent amount of blood before it bedded up so me and the hunter both were expecting to find some more spots along the trail but never found anything for several hundred yards. We should have just trusted Otis even if things didn’t “add up” to us. I’ve said that a few times now. The old adage is proving true to just trust your dog. It probably wouldn’t have done us any good on this one at the time anyways though. This was only about 5 hrs after the shot and I’m betting this deer wasn’t even dead yet when we were there. I don't think he ran and got in the pond immediately. I think he probably did that later in the dying process as he started feeling hot. A very interesting track to say the least. Always check the water holes fellas. yeah. That was the craziest thing. There was a brisk wind on Friday coming from the south and I got to smelling something close to the barn and coming from the pond and I knew it had to be a deer. I gotta tell you though, I was pretty shocked when I got to the pond and saw his rack sticking up. And I'll tell you something else, a deer laying in the water for about a month will make a buzzard gag. To paraphrase the late, great Paul Harvey, "Now we know...the rest of the story." Dr. B
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Here’s the pics of the buck…….Sorry for the huge picture size. It's just the way my phone does for some reason.  
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yeah. That was the craziest thing. There was a brisk wind on Friday coming from the south and I got to smelling something close to the barn and coming from the pond and I knew it had to be a deer. I gotta tell you though, I was pretty shocked when I got to the pond and saw his rack sticking up. And I'll tell you something else, a deer laying in the water for about a month will make a buzzard gag.
To paraphrase the late, great Paul Harvey, "Now we know...the rest of the story."
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Yep, I’m glad y’all finally found that one. That’s a really nice buck. This is really a telling track too in a lot of ways that we can all learn from. It shows how much that just seeing blood can fool you into believing you’ve smoked a deer. The hunter that day firmly believed that the deer was smoked because of “all the blood” we found. This was also one of those “bubbles in the blood” tracks. The hunter felt like the blood was coming out of the deer’s nose because he saw bubbles in it. I don’t say any of that to hack on the hunter in any way…..but rather just to show how our brains often want to perceive things as the best possible scenario when other clues are still telling us otherwise. I see it in most tracks we go on. The fact that the deer went 300 yards, bedded, and then got up and left was a sure sign this wasn’t a smoked deer. It would be really interesting to know exactly how the buck ended up in the pond and how long it took him to get there. Something else this track show us is how a marginally wounded deer like this has the potential to end up anywhere no matter which way you originally saw him run. I often hear people tell stories on here and assume that the deer couldn’t do this or wouldn’t have done that…..but these wounded deer can do pretty dang much anything and go in any direction. Alrighty…….who’s ready to go do some shooting practice this summer.
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When I was a kid, I was bow hunting on bogue chitto creek in Dallas County. If anyone knows this creek, they know how it looks. High soapstone banks and very shallow. I heard some dogs off in the distance and they were getting closer. Next thing you know, here comes a small buck trotting down into the creek. He ran up the creek about 40 or 50 yards and out of it, then turned around and ran back down the creek until I lost sight of him. When the dogs finally caught up with him, they ran up the creek then lost interest. Pretty cool watching that deer try to throw his scent all over.
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When I was a kid, I was bow hunting on bogue chitto creek in Dallas County. If anyone knows this creek, they know how it looks. High soapstone banks and very shallow. I heard some dogs off in the distance and they were getting closer. Next thing you know, here comes a small buck trotting down into the creek. He ran up the creek about 40 or 50 yards and out of it, then turned around and ran back down the creek until I lost sight of him. When the dogs finally caught up with him, they ran up the creek then lost interest. Pretty cool watching that deer try to throw his scent all over. One of the coolest things I've seen a deer do was on a fishing trip one day. My buddy and me were headed to go fishing when we crossed a bridge than ran across a small creek. My buddy says…”Hey man turn around, I’m pretty sure there was a deer swimming up that creek.” Sure enough we turned around and saw a doe swimming down the middle of the creek toward us. She swam in under the bridge and then when she got to the other side, she tucked herself up in under an over hanging bank. No sooner than she did that, we looked back and here came some dogs running up the creek bank with dogs on both sides. They couldn’t figure out what happened and eventually went on. I walked over to the banks edge directly above the deer and she never moved. She looked like she was give out and tired.
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A friend of mine almost called you on Feb 8 to try and find a monster 10 point, but the buck ran straight into a beaver pond swamp that was logged thru about 10 years ago. Nothing but briars, water and thicket. I think Otis might have put in for his retirement if you sicked him in there.
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A friend of mine almost called you on Feb 8 to try and find a monster 10 point, but the buck ran straight into a beaver pond swamp that was logged thru about 10 years ago. Nothing but briars, water and thicket. I think Otis might have put in for his retirement if you sicked him in there. He should have called us. Stuff like that is about par for the course when you go out on tracks. If you’ve got an area on your property that’s thick and swampy….you can just about rest assured that we’re gonna end up going through it. Otis actually gets through most of it pretty well. It’s me and the hunter that are usually fighting our way through it all. I don't see how anyone tracks in this stuff using an "on lead" method.
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Did it for years, H. I got the scars to prove it. lol
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Anyone care for a deer liver smoothie??? I hear they're really high in iron.  
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I ran another training line with Shelby yesterday off lead. She did horrible. It was a little disappointing after the improvement she has shown on the last couple tracks. She just couldn’t slow down on this one enough to efficiently track. Oh, she was wanting to find it bad….but she was just running around in circles just randomly hitting the line. I just sat there and let her run until she got so tired that she didn’t have much choice but to throttle back. She eventually got geared down enough to be able to follow the line in a real sloppy manner to the deer leg. We’re definitely going back on lead for the next few training tracks.
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I was watching some of those European hog drives with dogs last night on Youtube and it seemed about half of the dogs were some of Otis's kinfolks.
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I was watching some of those European hog drives with dogs last night on Youtube and it seemed about half of the dogs were some of Otis's kinfolks. Yeah, some of those are pretty cool videos. I saw one with Kopovs running a big red stag. There’s places over there in Europe where Kopovs are really popular. I think you’ll eventually see more of them over here. They’re a great little hunting dog with a real good nose and super intelligent. Otis is celebrating his 3rd birthday in another week or two. I’m excited about the upcoming season. This is supposed to be the year when most dogs start maturing and beginning to reach their full potential. Shelby just had her first birthday. She’s been doing a lot better on the last few practice tracks. It’s all a matter of slowing down for her. As soon as she matures enough to throttle down and track like a grown dog…. she’s gonna be like a deer tracking terminator. She’s got a combination of insane work drive combined with a really active nose. The awesome thing I see her doing is both sticking her nose straight up in the air and gluing it to the ground…..with no trouble knowing she has the ability to do both.
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How are the pups doing cnc? I bet they're chomping at the bit to get on a track.
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