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Tracking a buck after being shot
Posted on 1/4/14 at 12:56 am
Posted on 1/4/14 at 12:56 am
Is there a worse feeling for someone shooting their first buck and not finding it?
Someone in our club shot his first buck tonight. We tracked it for nearly 200 yards in some thick shite. We would find a drop of blood then go 30 yards and not see a drop. Keep crawling and find another drop the size of a pencil eraser. Finally, we jumped him up and he ran off looking like he was perfectly fine. Wondering what the chances are this buck makes it...I know the guy is pretty upset about it. Hopefully the guy will make it through whatever injury he does have
Someone in our club shot his first buck tonight. We tracked it for nearly 200 yards in some thick shite. We would find a drop of blood then go 30 yards and not see a drop. Keep crawling and find another drop the size of a pencil eraser. Finally, we jumped him up and he ran off looking like he was perfectly fine. Wondering what the chances are this buck makes it...I know the guy is pretty upset about it. Hopefully the guy will make it through whatever injury he does have
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Posted on 1/4/14 at 1:01 am to slapahoe
We tracked a buck last week for 4 hrs and went maybe 300 yds with barely finding any blood. Went back 2 days later and found him 30 yds from where we stopped tracking. He died from that wound even though we didn't think he was hit good. Try again in the morning, hopefully you find him 
Posted on 1/4/14 at 1:17 am to slapahoe
Probably a gut shot, Go back at day time & probably find him not far from where you jumped him. Maybe even still alive so work slow & keep a look out
On another note I shot one this year & found a shite load of hair & one drop of blood, He was back on camera a few days later & I still don't know what happened
On another note I shot one this year & found a shite load of hair & one drop of blood, He was back on camera a few days later & I still don't know what happened
Posted on 1/4/14 at 1:42 am to slapahoe
Head back and fix a drink with someone you trust. You'll find him
Posted on 1/4/14 at 1:56 am to slapahoe
Plan B- fix another drink and call someone with a dog
Posted on 1/4/14 at 5:46 am to slapahoe
Where are y'all hunting at? I have a blood dog.
Posted on 1/4/14 at 6:17 am to slapahoe
Always get a dog if possible. A person will jump a deer but a dog will just bay it up and you can almost walk up there and cut their throat.
Sounds like the deer will die. Wait till after morning hunt and try again
Sounds like the deer will die. Wait till after morning hunt and try again
Posted on 1/4/14 at 7:27 am to slapahoe
What part of the world are you in?
Posted on 1/4/14 at 8:10 am to slapahoe
What's your twenty? There's some posters around that have dogs that need work.
Posted on 1/4/14 at 9:25 am to slapahoe
How long did y'all wait before tracking him?
If you kept jumping him, you should have backed out and gone in the next day. Especially if it was a nice buck
If you kept jumping him, you should have backed out and gone in the next day. Especially if it was a nice buck
Posted on 1/4/14 at 11:23 am to slapahoe
slapahoe,
Too late for y'all now, but the key is to handle it differently next time (and there WILL be a next time) you're encountered w/ a deer that has a marginal hit. A deer w/ a marginal hit may well die Just lie your buddy's deer may well die), but not immediately. If one doesn't find a good blood trail or LUNG blood near where the deer was standing at the shot, the hunter should back off the trail for at least a couple of hours (depending on time of day) just like some earlier posters said.
W/ or W/o a trailing dog, there's still a very good chance you'll find the deer today IF it was gut/liver shot. If not, you probably won't find it, even w/ a dog.
Too late for y'all now, but the key is to handle it differently next time (and there WILL be a next time) you're encountered w/ a deer that has a marginal hit. A deer w/ a marginal hit may well die Just lie your buddy's deer may well die), but not immediately. If one doesn't find a good blood trail or LUNG blood near where the deer was standing at the shot, the hunter should back off the trail for at least a couple of hours (depending on time of day) just like some earlier posters said.
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Without a dog, y'all should of backed off at that point and waited till morning. If he was bedding down, he is hit bad enough that he will not make it. Never push a deer unless you have a good tracking dog.
W/ or W/o a trailing dog, there's still a very good chance you'll find the deer today IF it was gut/liver shot. If not, you probably won't find it, even w/ a dog.
Posted on 1/4/14 at 11:43 am to slapahoe
damn slap, all these guys wanting to help and you don't check back? why post at all
Posted on 1/4/14 at 2:28 pm to slapahoe
I've only had to track one that far. It was this November and I had put a bad shot on a 9 pt. He was quartering towards and I shot the rear section of ribs. It hit Diaphragm, guts and hind quarter.
The blood trail was sparse, but I kept circling wider and wider around either the last blood trail or jump spot for over an hour; jumped him several times but never in an area where I could see well enough to shoot.
He was still breathing when I finally found him. He just laid there 15 feet away and I had to finish him.
Persistence can pay off.
The blood trail was sparse, but I kept circling wider and wider around either the last blood trail or jump spot for over an hour; jumped him several times but never in an area where I could see well enough to shoot.
He was still breathing when I finally found him. He just laid there 15 feet away and I had to finish him.
Persistence can pay off.
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