Had a call come in yesterday morning from a guy I’ve tracked for a couple times in the past. He told me upfront that he was pretty sure we wouldn’t find a dead deer on this one but it was a big 10 point he had been hunting and he wanted to do everything he could to make sure it wasn’t fatally hit. He had shot at the buck just at dark the evening before in a creek bottom. He found some hair and a few drops of blood but that was it. Also, there was a big chunk blown out of a log just below where the buck was standing that pointed toward him shooting under the deer and just grazing it. We got on the track and followed it pretty well for it to just be a grazing hit. I think the fact that it had been grazed on the underneath side of the deer was allowing scent to be wiped off on all the sage brush and gave the dogs something to follow. After about 800 yards we decided to call it off as it crossed over onto some other property. I feel pretty confident that this buck will be ok and will likely show back up where the hunter had been getting pics of him all season.
