When traditional tracking skills are combined with new blood-detection and tracking products, lost game can become a thing of the past.
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When traditional tracking skills are combined with new blood-detection and tracking products, lost game can become a thing of the past.
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Nothing will beat a tracking dog! (I am biased)
Not even close.
For sure. I think the article is for people without access to a tracking dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marker
There's also the issue of the deer mixing it up with other deer - that can cause a tracking dog problems.
Yes, dogs like to follow the hottest trail but cross track training will resolve that, its usually only a problem with new dogs, when they figure out the game cross tracks are not a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
Great article.....thanks for sharing
Great article-thank You for sharing.
There is never enough education how to track wounded game.
After all-there are always new members in the hunting fraternity, and they need all the education and support they can get.
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my lab she almost 2 years old now is doing an amazing job. It is if the wounded deer give off a different sent as she has had no issues. last year when she was 10 months she track my deer 100yds with no blood for first 50. This year she was on my 1st deer almost before I could even mark the first spot of blood, heart shot so didn't go to far. Then my 2nd deer it was in a cut corn field and I watched it go almost 300yds. I brought her to the bush the next day, it rained most of the night and 16hrs later. Got to the spot where I shot it and told her to find the deer, she tracked it right to the gut pile. I will put her on every deer I get just for practice, one day I might actually need her help or someone I know.
Incorrect, you will most likely have to track less. Deer can go hundreds of yards with complete pass through lung shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfoldivandor
The reason now I only take anchoring shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
What's that? Blow both shoulders out with 30.06? LolQuote:
Originally Posted by canadaman30
I hear ya though, I want to anchor them right there or I keep banging. Last 2 deer I shot they took off like I missed. Blew the first ones heart in half and double lunged the second. They ran threw a bunch of golden rod and blood was minimal the first 20 yards, Good thing I had a view of which way they ran or else you almost think you missed.
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you are so right Fox it happened to me lol.
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Originally Posted by SongDog
oh dont say that, i shot at a buck like 20 yards with a gun this year. put the scope in the boiler room and pulled the trigger. didnt bother to shoot again because i was so sure i hit him. watched him saunter into the bush and then no trace of him. we searched all day and no blood no nothing so we assumed i missed. i pray i missed but i feel like i wacked him good :(
High shoulder or neck below skull, so far all have dirt napped where shot using rifleQuote:
Originally Posted by SongDog
That's the ticket to success !!Quote:
Originally Posted by canadaman30
Double lunging is the best way to go in archery, ethically too- and saves great amount of meat compared to some other ,equally lethal hits(except perhaps neck shot with a gun).
Almost always the animal will run off ,and will have about 15 sec to live.
Depends on the speed and terrain ,15 sec equals 100-250 yards ,in great majority of cases.
No dog and if not enough blood will make finding the animal very difficult.
The more the trackers know about tracking wounded game ,the better for the outcome.
Then we throw in poor shots , animals making a move at the last second-tracking is a way of life for many.
The least amount of dragging an animal out of the woods to the trail is success...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
Hardest one we ever tracked was a buck. Decent blood trail but he couldn’t get over down trees and would back track to find easier path. Made for different recovery
The high shoulder shot will drop him in his tracks. I’ll take a neck shot if the deer is close enough and standing still. The white throat patch makes for a good target. Not a lot of room for error though so it’s mandatory that your sites are dead on.Quote:
Originally Posted by canadaman30
shot one of my bigs bucks couple years ago at 20yd with Xbow. He run in a cut corn field for 300yds the whole time I was looking at my bolt than back to the deer as it ran. was sure I missed but how. No blood for until i got almost to him. if he had run into the bush I would have assumed i missed. Through and through both lungs.
Not true. Ive shot two deer that went 100+ metres with "boiler room" shots. One had no exit wound and was shot in a place with literally hundreds of deer tracks, so nothing else to go on. A very frustrating tracking situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfoldivandor
Do you hunt with dog near by or go home to bring the dog with you next day?Quote:
Originally Posted by sabmgb
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My girl stays in my jeep, just I case I need her, but would have to give it lots of time or you would push deer further away. My 2nd one this year I did leave her at home, but deer was in field and ran 300yds further into field. I took her back the next morning to see how she would do. I rained all night and 16hr after the shot. She had no trouble finding the pile where I cleaned it. the other 2 she has tracked down she was with me in jeep. I came out talked with the property owner and had a coffee, unloaded quad before I went back for them, so probably good hour. They were both hit hard, but if not hit hard would give it longer or the next day for sure.
tracking discussion turned shot placement...
In Germany it's illegal to hunt w/o access to a trained and licensed dog.
We're not quite there in terms of regulation, but it's a good idea to know someone with a dog, if you don't have one yourself.
I recall there was a group offering tracking in ON...
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Originally Posted by vom Dufenshmirtz
Yes, they are the Big Game Blood Trackers Ontario:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BGBTO/
More tips from OOD:
https://oodmag.com/getting-started-blood-tracking/