No recovery on this one. I feel like the deer may be hit where I circled in the pic below. It was a broadside shot as the buck walked out into a food plot at about 125 yards. The hunter’s dad reported that it had came up in the front end off its feet as it wheeled around and bolted back into the woods. There was two small spots of blood about the size of a tennis ball or so at 50 yards and 80 yards where it looked like the deer stopped before bolting out of the area. There was also a few decent drips between the two spots. Nothing from that point on that we could find. I think the deer wheeled around, ran 50 yards and stopped to see what happened.....walked another 30 yards and stopped again....then took off as the hunters came in for the recovery.
We tracked it for about 800 yards before calling it off. I never could find a bed in this one spot but we came across an area where I feel like the deer bedded up just due to Otis’s behavior. He tracked a bee line for about 350-400 yards before circling a little thick area numerous times before taking the track on. I feel like there’s a good chance this deer is just grazed real hard. This is just my best guess after putting all the clues together.
