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

Thanks man! I've got some flyers I can print for you.....I pass by y'alls place a pretty good bit. I tracked one for some folks at the top end of your road last week but it was just grazed.

No doubt, if there and have nothing else lined up and the man wants it tracked. I was curious if he had bedded down and was jumped. I assume even in that short amount of time if lethally injured the dogs would be able to keep his attention until he could be finished. It sounds like he was long gone in that hour. Maybe he will make it if that's the case.

That’s what we were thinking….Maybe we would get lucky and he was hurt enough to bed down quickly close by and bay up when the dogs found him. I told them if we found him and he broke bay then we’d just back out. It never even came to that though….he never even checked up after the shot and most likely just had a sore shoulder. We compared the broken bolt to a new one and he didn’t get squat for penetration. The difference in the lengths of the bolts was about the length of your pinky or ring finger.

Hey Harold the deer you tracked on the island last year is still alive and well.

You can’t hit a deer much better than he hit that one. He only got a few inches of penetration though. I believe the mechanical broadhead failed.

Man, are you gonna have time to hunt Union Springs?!

Dr. B

Heck yeah man!....If ain't tracking then I'm likely hunting. I've slipped off down there for several hunts so far. Just went today.....saw a few does and a 7 pt.....

Took a few days off from tracking for Thanksgiving and to do a little hunting myself with family. We still went on a couple tracks close by to where I was hunting though and were able to recover a young boys first deer. I believe he was 7 years old his dad said. We didn’t get a chance to track it until 24 hrs after the shot and after close to an inch of rain. The yotes had already found it but I’m pretty sure from the description of things that it was a low gut shot. They had tracked it around 150 yards and lost blood. They said the last spot of blood was a decent little puddle….likely where the deer had stopped and stood…..but they couldn’t find any more after that. The issue was that the deer decided to go a different direction after he stopped that last time. Instead of continuing straight down the trail he was on…he took a hard right and bedded up another 150 yards away in some thick undergrowth. Awesome buck for someone’s first deer!

Just gave your number to a buddy in Hardaway. Maybe you can help him find his deer.

We found him......or what was left of him.

Man, y'all are on fire! Well done.

Glad you guys found him. How far had he gone?

I didn't even measure it but it wasn't too far. From the hit site maybe 200-250 yards. He knew he had gut shot it by its reaction. He gave it a couple of hours to look for him but jumped him up just off the edge of the food plot. He backed out and came back in this morning but didn't have much blood to track him by. He did some looping and grid searching but just looked in the wrong direction. The dogs ran right to him.




Thanks man!....

The coyotes have been eatin good.


Keep up the good work CNC. 👍

Thanks!.....I'm starting to wonder if hogs may be getting on some of them too....maybe....maybe not......A lot of these places are full of hogs as well though.

Harold, can you see a big difference in your dog's noses? Can Shelby track as old of a trail as otis?

It’s really hard to say right now…... I’m just now about to start running Shelby by herself. She’s 2 years old now and beginning to mature out of her wide open puppy stage. She’s really progressing this year and starting to get out in front of Otis and take the lead on some tracks. She’s just always been really timid and afraid to get out of my sight like she’s worried about losing me. She’ll start tracking it away from me and then stop to come back and make sure I’m there. That’s getting better and better as she matures though. We went on a 24 hr old track the other day and she didn’t seem to have any issues smelling it just like Otis was doing…She's never had any issues on overnight training tracks…If I had to guess I’d say that Otis could probably track an older ground scent than she could but if she can run them out to 18-24 hrs then that’s all I need her to do. One thing she does a lot more than Otis is air scenting. I see her putting her nose up and checking the air a good bit.

Dang coyotes can make short work of a carcass. Be interesting to watch. Congrats on the finds!

Dr. B

Thanks!...I wonder how many yotes it takes to eat a carcass like that. That's a lot of meat and organs to consume. I know it sure doesn't take them long to find a deer like this when its down. They must be some pretty dang good tracking dogs themselves.