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Deer hunting update.
Coo-wah-chobee:
...................................David, Ya need ta find the animals yer wound , period. Dont matter whether its a deer or coyote or what. Personal likes and dislikes have nothing ta do with it and the landowner has nothing ta do with it. You owe it to the animal, beautiful er not in yer eyes. It shows respect fer the animal and yourself. Ifn ya dont know how ta track an animal learn BEFORE you go out next time and wound or kill something......bob
cowboy:
Any thought's on tracking? I was wondering about that the other day - I have followed sign to a dead animal before, and a lot of that was knowing what direction they were headed (which helps a lot), and blood. But what if thier is no blood, what do ya look for - other than tracks, broken twigs, bent over foliage, and what not?
Suppose you could do the ever broadening circle thing till you find it or don't - what works for everyone?
mullet:
I caught some flak on PP for the three hogs that we didn't recover.I pride myself on good blood trailing and tracking.We were trying to blood trail in rain coming straight down and crawling along hog trails in thorn and palmetto thickets.In those kind of conditions I try to find an established trail that the animal seems to want to be on.Then I try to leap ahead after dropping a piece of toliet paper at the last blood spot so I have a reference point.I always carry paper with me so when the blood trail gets weak .Then I drop a small piece at every spot so I can get a pattern.The time Chris and I were hunting,we had to push them fast and not give them a chance to lay down,as the rain was washing the blood away.And with one,as soon as it bit the arrow off,The fat closed the hole and the blood trail quit.Normally,if I had time,I would put a dog on it.
Coo-wah-chobee:
Tryin' ya best is all that anyone can do . Some foks are better at this than others. Ya need ta know the difference between deer an hawg tracks here down south as well as others canine, etc. Givin' up because ya tired and dont like the animal bothers me. Too bad dont shoot next time. Huntin' is NOT killin' they are too different things.This is a public forum and hunters dont need this nor is it indictative of the large majority of traditional hunters. That being said, I blood trail. Ifn theres is no blood I use tracks. Palmetto thickets, thorn bushes, sometimes rattlers, heat and bugs are part of it. Smell plays a big part fer me. Have tracked fer 4 hours many times in the past. I dont give up until I cant see in the dark. In am it starts over until I find the animal er figure I have exhausted all possibilities. Many times I have started over from the shot site and did it again and again. Fortunately most times I have been rewarded. I dont care ifn its hot, rainy , buggy er whatever. Ifn ya kill it ya gonna eat it end of story. Think about that before ya shoot.....bob
mullet:
I agree with Bob.You have to do everything possible to find your game.Nothing worse than some hiker finding it at the picnic table with your arrow stuck in it.Unfortunatly on pay hunts ,when your time is up,it's up.
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