Got permission to keep going but it was just like the never ending track. Eventually just called it and decided the deer wasn�t dead. It was a pretty hard quartering away shot as the hunter described it. My best guess is that he buried it up in the back of the front side shoulder�..kinda like in the armpit area but catching a lot of meat on the leg to impede penetration. It appeared like the deer was going 50-100 yards and stopping�.going 50-100 yards and stopping, etc��

Folks look at you crazy sometimes when you tell them that the deer will likely live and will likely show right back up���But, but�.I knocked him clean off his feet and he was falling down when he ran off!!�

This is one of the back slaps I tracked a couple weeks ago. Another family member killed it yesterday evening. This deer was actually back slapped twice. I think somebody�s gun may be chootin a little high.

Yeah looks like somebody needs to go back to the range. Was the backstrap ruined

looks like someone didn't have their head down on the stock on those shots

There doesn�t appear to be much left of them. From the best I can tell though, it looks like the wounds are healing pretty well. That back one looks like it's beginning to scab over.

Call just came in for tomorrow morning�..another bow shot. Hunter said that the arrow was covered in blood. They gave the deer an hour before tracking but jumped it a short distance into the track. They can�t find any blood past the bed site so they decided to back out and call in a dog for tomorrow morning. I�m betting they just hit it a little too far back around the liver/gut area. This one sounds pretty promising. I hope we don't get a chit load of rain tonight. It's showing a really good chance just before daylight.

To be continued���..

Good luck in the morning, hope you don't get soaked.

Thanks�..this one may get interesting if it pours rain right before we go out. The good thing is that I don�t figure this deer went too far before bedding up again so maybe we won�t have it track for 100�s and 100�s of yards. They said you could tell it was hurt when it jumped up.

Sippin on a cup of coffee before I head out this morning. It looks like we may get lucky and get missed by the rain but that 15-20 mph wind is starting to whip up pretty strong. It'll be interesting to see how much of a challenge that poses to Otis. This will be the strongest wind we've tracked in I believe.

Found it! Pics to come later. Headed to another call for a young lady hunter. Blood at hit site and first 60 yards then nothing. To be continued.....

Way to go, Otis! Hoping he can go 2 for 2 today!

This is awesome! I look forward to this thread more than a kickoff!

Dr. B

Great job!

Thanks y�all�..I appreciate it. I�m glad everyone is enjoying the thread. We ended up going 2 for 2 on locating the deer but only 1 for 2 on recovery. The first deer was exactly what we thought it was��.just a little too far back in the liver/gut area. It went around 400 yards from where they jumped him. There was absolutely zero blood though. There wasn�t even any blood in the bed where he laid. Look in the pic below and you�ll see the bed.

The second deer must have just been a really hard grazing shot. We tracked out to around 800 yards and found the deer but he was still good and alive when we found him. We got a good look at him and the young lady�s dad and I both decided that it wasn�t worth pursuing. We weren�t really in a situation where we could have let Otis get after him anyways.

Here�s the first deer���..

Seriously one of the best threads on Aldeer, I check it every day.

Thanks dude�.I really am glad that y�all enjoy reading the stories because for me it�s just like when you kill a deer and you want to tell your buddies the story about it. It's all part of the fun of it. I haven�t had this much fun in the woods since I was a kid hunting.

One other nugget from one of today�s tracks��..

It�s become pretty routine for most hunters that are tracking with me to be in occasional communication with the other club members, etc via cell phone...�.letting them know how we�re progressing or where we�ve made to. Today, I�m listening to the hunter behind me tell the person on the other end��Naw man, we�ve already gone way past that�.we�re already over into the Cherry Hole!� I couldn�t help it fellas, I giggled like a 14 year old��The Cherry Hole!?!?!?! Dammit man, that�s the stand I want to sit in for sure.

Nice work. Should be a busy weekend for the cnc deer recovery team. Good luck in advance

x2. I've really enjoyed reading this.