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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!