Some folks are going to say in response to that ^^^^…….”Well it’s the ones where folks are chasing them down for hundreds of yards that really look bad and yada,yada,yada……” But the reality of it is that part of it has very little bearing on the outcome or whether the deer’s mortally wounded or not, etc……In 99% of the cases, he’s either a dead deer walking or he's not and none of “the story” and how it unfolds really matter……That very same deer I just posted could have been 1000 yards from that swamp we were in and if that’s where he wanted to go then he would have stumbled and flopped his way to it and my story would have said “We ran him 1000 yards!!”…..with that mattering very little really.
I had one last year for a guy from Florida that had no choice but to leave that afternoon to go back home for the holidays……I chased one for over a mile and a half trying to recover it for him that was dragging his guts and had already laid for 7 hrs before we got there….Its just the way it unfolds sometimes…….Most of the stories about chasing them and the distance it goes just gets sensationalized and misconstrued. They’re either a dead deer walking or they aint…..If we recover them then 99 times out of 100 it’s the first option……
I don’t get why some guys want to take that 1 out of 100 and pick that as the hill you want to defend……especially when it’s a fellow tracker….Why??......I mean I get why the dog hunters would blow it out of proportion for their purposes……But why someone running one of the main pages in a tracking leadership role would do so and just give them more ammunition is beyond me……What do you think they we say now…..”Look, one of your very own is saying blah blah blah…..”…….Hell, it would be a little better if you were at least half way correct in what your putting out there but you’re giving them ammo with a 100% wrong opinion…….C’mon dawg.
