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Not sure. It smelled like a gut shot....stinky.

Thanks fellas!

Just as I was leaving the first call, I got a text from a hunter I tracked for several weeks ago. He wanted to let me that he had finally killed the buck we tracked. He also sent me a pic of the original wound……..

The second track was a super cool one to go on. Can anyone guess where? I let it linger until tomorrow to see if anyone knows………..

Parker Island bow hunting preserve.

A call came in a little while ago for tomorrow morning....

The hunter reported shooting a really nice buck this evening. He said it jumped really high in the air off all four feet but they can't find any blood or hair or anything. That's all I have to go on.

To be continued....

Damn that didn't linger long.

The back glass sticker and a quick google gave it away lol

Parker island

Yep, that’s it. I thought it was really cool just to get to track there and see the place. There's a lot of Alabama Indian history associated with that area. We actually tracked the buck right across an old Indian mound. The track was unsuccessful but I’m about 95% sure this buck is still alive and will show back up on camera. If he were to die it’ll take awhile. The hunter only got a few inches of penetration. All I can figure is that his mechanical broadhead just didn't deploy correctly and/or he hit farther forward than he thought and caught too much of the shoulder.

Parker Island. I saw on fb where they were looking for a dog yesterday.

This buck was clipped low in the guts. What was kind of odd is that there wasn’t any sign at all at the hit site on this one. You would have thought it would’ve blown out some hair. We tracked it a little over 100 yards and found where it had laid down. That’s where we found a decent bit of white hair. Unfortunately, it looked like the searchers had jumped him up. When he went to take off his stomach contents dumped out on the ground. I thought we would get this one for sure…..but instead we took him from the bed another 350-400 yards where we hit the property line and had to stop. The other property where the buck ran was a fresh clear cut. It had some tree tops and stuff in it but I could see all the way across it and didn’t see any buzzards or the deer. The hunter is gonna attempt to make contact with the neighbors this afternoon and see if they can get permission to go in and look for him in the next day or so. I believe he’s definitely gonna die. This one really sucked to have to leave in the woods.

I ain’t gonna lie fellas……I’m getting fatigued, my arse is chaffed, and I’ve got saw briar scratches on my arms and legs that looks like I’ve been in a fight with a bobcat. I’m not sure if I’m gonna make it another 17 days.

Where the buck had laid down……..

Parker Island is a cool place I'm told by buddies who have hunted it. I've circled it in my boat.

We tracked through some beautiful cypress swamps. It was just really cool to me to be able to walk through areas like that where you just knew that some Indian used to sit on the same hill and hunt in the same swamps.

The guy that had parkers prior to the newells I assume dug countless mounds on the Island. Made me sick as I saw his house with skeletons under glass. He had 100s of more caches then States history museum. Always figured some Indian voodoo karma got back as that entire house burnt to the ground.

Call just came in from the morning hunt.....

Not a whole lot of info on this one. They say they've found good blood for 50 yards and then nothing....no bone, no hair. I didn't ask a whole lot of other questions over the phone. I'll just see what we've got when I get there. Gonna give it until lunch time just to make sure it's at least been given 4 hours

To be continued....

That was a geat track for my confidence in Otis. Don't get me wrong, I have confidence in him at this point..... but we go on a lot of different tracks that for whatever reason end up without a recovery. Not knowing for sure what happened leaves you questioning things in your mind. Did they just not hit it well or did Otis mess up somehow????

We got to the hit site on this one and the hunter started saying….”He was standing somewhere around in here and he went……....well, he went right where Otis is going……..Damn!...He’s gone!!.....

…..and he was too. Otis lit out on this deer’s track and took it from the start like he was running the deer. After about 1000 yards I toned him back to me in order to let the hunter and other two guys catch up and regroup. I told them I thought we were on a live deer and it would just be a matter of how bad he was hurt. While we were stopped, one of the guys who was with us said he was gonna head back to the barn and meet us when we were done. We said ok and he left heading back.

After giving the dogs some water and resting a few minutes, I sent them back after the buck. We had just got back after him good when the guy heading back to the barn calls the hunter…..He tells him “I just saw the buck run out into the big field and then cut back in the woods….he’s favoring his leg but still moving good.” We went ahead and pushed him for a little ways further but he eventually went across a paved road and that’s where we called it.....he just wasn't hit well.

Call just came in for tomorrow morning……….

Hunter shot what he says is a stud of a buck this evening. The buck bowed up and took off. He can only find blood for about 100 yards. The hunter feels like its probably lung blood though so this should be an easy find……….

To be continued……….

CNC.have you ever kept track of how many miles you travel in a week,month etc., making these tracks? Id guess it keeps you in shape.