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700 yard bay/dispatch on a doe that was hit in a hindquarter. Ended it in a creek with my knife

C’mon now…..big bucks….big bucks…..no shoulder shots…….anddddd………

If any hunters are reading this, PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THE SHOULDER!!!!! PLEASE! It had been a rough start already for us... New pup seems to be doing great and leads the way and gets to the deer just to bark a few times and off they go. No catching up with them. My veteran dog starts telling me about 250 yds in that it is not worth pursuing. I may learn to listen to her one day.

Get em' hitek !

Get some videos of those dogs baying this season!! Tired of all the pics of the dead ones! Hope yall are safe and successful

Tracked a big 9pt lastnight around Hollytree. Man those mountains are tough. Found one last speck of blood around the 800 yard mark. Made it around 1.25 miles and the hunter asked if I'd mind doing one restart. Back up the mountain we go. We stop to catch our breath and Muzz drags a skunk out of a hole just a few feet away from us and slings it everywhere. We restart and Muzz takes us right back to the same spot. He goes another 300 yards jumps the deer and the deer runs off and leaves him. I was driving home across the river bridge in Lacey Springs and a car with one headlight is coming straight towards me. They jerked it over into the left lane and kept on driving. Had enough time to takes a shower and come to work. Everything smells like a skunk including my house. Wife's not very pleased and I need a nap.

You might stink but you're a Rockstar !

Damn!! .........Killed my very first buck in Hollytree on top of the mountain behind the store.....I dont see how you do it in those mountains.

I'm in good shape by the end of season

Next call just came in……Older gentleman said he shot the biggest deer of his life this evening…….Said he had a green slime arrow with no blood on the ground…….Gonna meet up just after daylight in the morning to see if we can find him….I got a feeling this one may be a good one……

Got him!.......Solid 8 pt.......Pretty routine recovery....

He needed killin' .

Got a call last night to help track a big buck a hunter had shot…..At first he didn’t have any blood or arrow and didn’t know where the deer was hit so he decided to back out until this morning. They called back a short while later and said they looked a little more and had found blood and thought he would be able to find it this morning……

Hunter came back in this morning and found what he says is pools of blood before jumping the buck a couple hundred yards from the hit site…..Said he looked hurt bad but he’s gonna need some help….We’ve given him a couple more hours to lay back down…..Sometimes getting them up like that jostles things around and they expire after laying down again….We’re about to go see what we can do with him here in another hour or so.

Well, that one did not play out as we hoped it would…….We found the arrow about 50 yards into the track and from the looks of it the hunter only got about 2-3 inches of penetration…..He said he found something that he thought for sure was a piece of liver so we suspect he my have just punctured his body cavity enough to lacerate the liver…..He wasn’t bleeding as good as originally described and he didn’t bleed any at all past the bed where he was jumped…..We tracked him for about 700 yards in really tough dry conditions but never caught up to him….I don’t think he was hurt quite as bad as the hunter thought……He may eventually succumb from his injuries though if he does indeed have a lacerated liver.

Here's the arrow showing the minimal penetration…..Sorry for the out of focus pic.....It was completely clean other than the little bit you see….I believe his setup just failed him…….Sucks too because this buck had a double main beam and was a pretty dang good one.

Postimage isn't working for me today. Been on a few shoulder shot deer that have smoked the dogs. Tracked on in Guntersville yesterday that was 32hrs old. Weird track. Alittle blood 100 yards or so from the shot site. We found a small puddle of blood around 800 yards where he stood for awhile. Found another spot of blood where he had stood around the 1,300 yard mark and then we cut out through a thick overgrown pasture a couple of creeks and had to call the track pushing two miles with zero beds. Was a really slow hard track but I enjoyed watching Muzz work it. Found a 5pt for a young man in Elkmont yesterday. Was his first deer with a bow. Headed to New Market after that. It was 10hrs after the shot and pushing a mile before the trail got hot. Dogs never even barked so they never laid eyes on him he had just jumped up infront of us and stayed ahead. Found a few specs of blood along the way but the dogs just came back and laid down after covering a 1.75 mile half circle trying to catch up. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Its gonna be tough until it rains again......I was surprised out how hard Otis had to dig to track this one today.

It is very slow hard tracking right now

I’ll probably try and avoid any more midday tracking until it rains again…..I got zapped by static electricity a couple times earlier today to the point I saw a blue spark fly off the end of my finger the second time…..When that starts happening the air is dryyyy