CNC - what kind of folks you give these guys when they tell you he ought to be dead right over this hill. Shot was right where it needed to be. Everything felt good. Then you track it for half a mile and it’s right through the guts, hams, or anywhere else but where it needed to be.
It’s funny how our perception of what happened is often times so bad off. The only tracks that get awkward though is when the hunter doesn’t want to accept that he missed. The old man yesterday morning was adamant that he had hit the deer right behind the shoulder where he was aiming. He just couldn’t figure out why there was no blood and why the deer wasn’t just laying right there. When I told him that the dogs weren’t indicating it was a hit he said…..”Oh, I know I hit it, he was only 75 yards!”…..even though none of the evidence suggested such. It’s all good though, it’s just part of it.
Got a call late last night to track a backslapped buck…….I advised the hunter that there was a really low chance of recovery but he said it was the biggest buck he had ever shot at so he wanted to make sure……so were about to head out and go check it for him. To be continued……
