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Something else worth mentioning again on this track…..This buck had originally bedded about 150 yards from the hit site. It plays out time and time again fellas….If you hit a deer hard, he’s gonna want to bed up pretty quickly…..It was only after being bumped and pushed that the deer went another 500+ yards…….Patience…….Patience.

Nice job so far CNC!!

Hopefully we don't need your services this year,but if we do,I'll be in touch.

Thanks man!....Call us if you need us.

Just now catching up, great job on that last track where the hunters muck it all up. I'm all for using a dog every single time I shoot one just to watch the dog work, whether it's lost or not. Glad we finally got bowtarist locally, so if he's available, I'm gonna put him to work!

I may retire from huntin just to make sure I don't miss a call!

Thanks!......

Bowtarist is gonna make y’all a good tracker. Jackson Co needs someone too as many deer as gets shot just in that one county.





Yeah, I know what you mean. I’d much rather go tracking than hunting now…..it’s not even close. For me it's like a whole new chess game to play.

Call just came in.......

Deer was shot yesterday morning, so we're already approaching 24 hrs. It sounds like a gut shot maybe. Got a pass through.....tracked the deer 200 yards.....found a bed but can't track it any farther. It's in a thick 3 year old cutover. Supposed to be a 140 inch buck.

To be continued......

I passed your info along for the deer you are going after. I do not know the hunter personally but a buddy called looking for a dog so I suggested you.

Thanks man...I appreciate that. We got him. Story to come.....

hurry

It's gonna be a minute. Got a second call, waiting on the hunter now. Sounds iffy.

Waiting is so painful!

Was it a real/legit 140" or did some significant ground shrinkage occur prior to recovery.

There ain’t nothing a tracker likes better than a good ol’ gut shot. The hunter had hit the deer in a good spot but the deer was angled to him pretty hard. The entry was not far behind the shoulder but it exited out the bottom of the belly just in front of its pecker. The ruffed up hair you see sticking out just back from the shoulder is the entry. He was only a couple hundred more yards ahead of where they found his first bed. He had also bedded at least one more time that we found in between there and where we finally located him.

This is the oldest track to date that we’ve run if I’m not mistaken at around 26 hrs old. Otis ran it without any issues other than the thick undergrowth slowing him down a little. The deer had probably wiped gut scent on every bush and piece of sedge grass along his path......so even though it was an old track, it was pretty simple for him to follow. Yep, he had a lot of ground shrinkage .... but it’s all good. This was the hunter’s first buck with a bow.

Second story still to come………..

Good job!

The second call came in while I was on the way back from the first one. It was a unique track to say the least. For privacy sake, I can’t tell the location but let’s just say this buck didn’t have to go very fer to get a Big Mac.

The hunter had stuck him yesterday evening and was pretty positive he had hit the deer really high…. with the arrow staying in him. He was way the hell up in a tree, shooting down on the deer at about 25 yards. They gave the buck several hours before tracking but still ended up jumping him late last night at around the 500 yard mark.

We picked back up on the trail today at around lunch and didn’t go but a few hundred more yards before jumping him again. He was still really lively though. I called Otis off of the initial jump but then allowed him to follow behind the deer for a few hundred yards just to see if he was weakened down yet. We called it off as the buck circled back and headed right back into his bedding area. We’re hoping maybe he lays down and eventually dies. He may actually make it…..hard to say. The shot was probably a single lung hit I'm guessing.

Amazing

Call just came in for tomorrow morning……..

Hunter said that a good buck came in about an hour before dark. He shot it at twenty yards with a rage broadhead. He thought he got a good hit and could hear the buck wheezing as it ran off but he’s afraid he may have caught too much of the shoulder. The arrow broke off at around 6 inches. He’s only a found a little bit of blood and after looking for a little while with no luck, the hunter decided to back out and give the deer overnight. We’re supposed to have some rain move in tonight but I don’t think that’ll give us too much trouble. Just hoping this deer lays down and dies…..

To be continued………

Lol minus 40"