Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Al Dogs The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou

Congrats! Y’all are on a roll!

As much as I see you tracking and see people looking for a dog on Facebook it's a wonder anyone ever makes a good shot

Thanks y'all.....


Beadlescomb……. Keep in mind that I’m covering 7-8 counties with these stories and the Facebook page covers the whole state. It’s probably not as bad as they may make it seem. People are just becoming more accustomed to using a dog on the bad shots and you're hearing more of the stories now. It's still a small fraction of the total killed.

Awesome story and pics, even though it was for a bunch of lousy dog runners Keep up the good work CNC...

Thanks man!.....


I gotta give those dog hunters credit...they sure did seem to be having a lot of fun.

Keep the stories coming! Love reading about those dogs! Curious question....were the deer dogs chasing when he shot it? Why were they not able to track it? Seems like if they could follow one before it was shot they’d keep following until they caught up to him.

I shot a nice deer this morning. He dropped like a sack and I immediately thought of this thread and cycled a second one thru his shoulders as he tried to crawl away on his front 2. The first shot likely had him down for good, but the thought of the backslap made me put the second one in him for extra safety.

I kinda wondered the same thing. It seemed a little ironic for a dog club to be having to call in a dog. I suppose though that your everyday deer running dog must not be able to blood track one or dog clubs would have already been doing it for years. The buck this guy shot wasn’t actually being run by the dogs, he was just moving out ahead of the commotion. The hunter said the dogs were on a pack of does.





I hear you man…..I feel the same way now. I’d rather put an extra round in him than to watch him get up and run off. That has to be a way worse feeling than just flat out missing one.

No doubt. I put what turned out to be 2 more unnecessary rounds into the 2nd buck I killed this year. I shot him until he quit twitching

I hunted in a dog club for several years in Colbert county. Red bones, blue ticks, black and tans and long legged beagles. The only dogs they even tried to track wounded deer with was the beagles. I never asked any of those guys why they wouldn't track.

Can’t imagine a dog club without one dog able to follow a blood trail.

You would think so. I guess maybe its hard to get deer dogs to focus on anything but a super hot track. They also may not understand how to discriminate between the wounded deer and the rest of the bunch. Blood tracking is a pretty specialized task for a dog.

Here’s a couple more pics I snapped to go along with that last story just to show what kind of nasty arse bottom we were chasing this deer around in. This flood water in the pic wasn’t too bad. The area around the creek itself was pretty dang deep though.

Merry Christmas Aldeer!....to be continued.

We kept deer dogs until I was 20 or so. We (couple of uncles and us) would have 25 dogs or so at any given time. Mostly walkers. Out of those at least two or three would cold blood trail. No training for them to do it. They just seemed to know. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago.

I don’t understand why you couldn’t put a whole pack of dogs on where the deer was running before he shot him and them be able to follow it just like they would if it hadn’t been shot?

I sure do enjoy reading this thread and keeping up with CNC, Otis and Shelby Lou!

Thanks Cuz…….

It should really get cranked up after this little Christmas break. The weather looks like its gonna be cold and I’m hearing a lot of stories about bucks on their feet looking frisky.

That’s the same thing I’m wondering too. All I can guess is that maybe they just won’t focus on that one line, especially if its say 30 minutes to an hour old. I imagine those dogs are just used to running through the woods until they hit any hot line. I don’t know though…..just guessing.

Just got caught up. Great stories!

I read two things that made me smile on that track...

1) Shelby was swimming around the buck (told you she'd make a heck of a duck dog) and
2) That picture of all those fellas standing around laughing and hanging out in that road. That looks like a good time there.

I bet you were grinning like a mule eatin' sawbriars every time they'd start up on that story of Otis and Shelby baying that buck.

Thanks for sharing!