Got a call this evening to help find another youth hunters first deer…..Buck was shot with a youth model .243 right before dark……I think he may have hit it back in the liver/gut area……We tracked right to him at 300 yards from the hit site but he got up and eased off before we could dispatch him. He let us get right up on him probably 20 yards away before he got up so I think he’s pretty hurt…..There was a small puddle of real dark blood in the bed. I just decided to call the track right there and pick back up on it in the morning hoping to find him dead a couple hundred yards away….He looked to be a pretty dang good buck best I could tell. He was in a young pine thicket so I didn’t get to look at him for very long.

To be continued hopefully with pics........

Last edited by CNC; 11/11/23 10:32 PM.