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Thanks Ike!.....Good anatomy lesson.....


We were able to recover two nice deer over the last couple days. One was for a bow hunter and the other for a youth gun hunter.

The gun hunter was a youth hunter who had shot one yesterday evening….They said the deer jumped up in the air and then crashed down on the ground before taking off. They couldn’t find any blood but thought they heard a deer take off when they were searching. We tracked to it and found it still alive at just over 300 yards this morning. I pulled the dogs off and the little boy was able to finish him off. It turned out to be a low shot that took both front legs out. It still amazes me how these dogs area able to smell the scent after it's rained. It had rained just about all night and was still lightly raining when we tracked the deer. We really just caught a slight break between heavier showers.


The bow hunter knew he had hit too far back and decided to give the deer overnight. It made for a pretty straight forward 250 yard track right to the deer yesterday morning. We actually ran a coyote off of this one when we found it. We saw it take off from the thicket up ahead of us as the dogs approached....