I left home today thinking I was just going ½ mile up the road to find a doe for the neighbor. I ended up going on three tracks before I made it back home. Let’s start with the first one………

A neighbor of mine down the road has a few pay hunters from Loosiana come in for a couple weekends every year during January. He called me this morning and said that one of them had crippled up a little doe and wanted to know if I could come help them find her. They had already tracked her for 400 yards and decided to back out. We got on the track and in just a matter of minutes progressed the track for another 250 yards where Otis started raising hell. He had her in some crazy thick undergrowth that was about too thick to walk through. I was making so much noise trying to beat my way through it that I decided to get down on my hands and knees and crawl the last 15-20 yards into the bay.

I could see Otis up ahead barking and circling but couldn’t make out the deer. I crawled a little closer and finally spotted it on its belly with its head up. I called Otis off of her and finished her off. Amazingly she still jumped up and ran 40 yards before crashing. Check out the damage the hunter had done on a low leg shot. This deer somehow still go over or through two fences after being shot. Gun used was a .270



I’ve found my bay gun now…..Me and the dirty 30 don’t play. More stories to come……….

That’s a hole!

Yeah, it's amazing that deer was able to go anywhere.

There wasn’t a whole lot to the second track. The hunter reported that a really good buck had chased a doe through some hardwoods he was hunting this morning. The buck stopped for a moment with his front shoulder and head sticking out behind a tree on a quartering to shot. He said the buck mule kicked after the shot but he couldn’t find any blood or hair. We tracked the deer for about 600 yards before the track went hot and Otis started chasing. The buck never even checked up. We never found any blood either. We eventually just called it off after close to a mile. It was odd to hear of one mule kicking without being hit hard. I’m still wondering what happened on that one.

The last call was on a buck that was shot yesterday evening from about 300 yards away....long shot. The hunter said he had tracked a lot of blood for about 400 yards and had just lost it. He didn’t report finding any bone but this one reminded me of a leg hit. We pushed the track on for another 300-400 yards past where the hunter lost it and came upon a tree top where the deer had bedded down….still putting out a decent bit of blood here and there the whole way. Otis circled the tree top several time and finally took the track off again. About 20 yards from the bed he jumped over a big log. As I followed behind him I noticed about two big handfuls of white hair just past the log. We followed the track another 150 -200 yards where it crossed the dirt road. The hunter said they didn’t have a good relationship with those folks so that was as far as we could go.

The pile of white hair was a little more evidence in my mind though of yotes getting after these leg hits and other severe wounds and finishing the deer off. I’m almost certain that yotes tracked that deer to its bed and attacked it as it jumped up and bayed. If we could have followed it far enough, I’m betting we would have found where they eventually took it down. It was hit pretty hard.

Two more calls have came in for tomorrow morning from the afternoon hunt……….They're both pretty close together.

First call reported tracking drips of blood for 150 yards before finding a decent spot where the deer had stopped. They tracked drips for another 50 yards and found another place where the deer stopped again. The blood started getting sparse after that and they decided to back out. I didn’t think to ask on this one how the deer reacted to the shot or if he was broadside, etc?

Second track sounds like a for sure low belly hit. The deer jumped up in the air on the shot. They’ve found white hair at the hit site and tracked ok blood for a couple hundred yards…..finding one spot where it looked like the deer stopped for a moment. Lost blood and backed out.

To be continued……….

Well, no recoveries to report this morning.

The first buck was bleeding pretty good but just not fatally wounded. We consistently found blood for 700-800 yards before Otis got the buck up and took off on the chase. He just never attempted to bay up. We let Otis push him for another 800 yards or so before calling it off. We had looped out around Otis and gotten on a little straight away in hopes of seeing the deer cross ahead of the dog but no luck. You could actually smell that rutty buck smell in the road where he had already crossed.

The second track just had the hair skint off his belly. There was a decent sized wad of hair blown off at the hit site and then a little blood for the first 100 yards or so but that was pretty much it. We found a few more spots where the deer crossed a ditch at about the 700 yard mark but it was only like three drops. Otis was having to really dig to work this track as well which leads me to believe it wasn’t hit high enough to really get into the guts.

Call just came in for tomorrow morning………

I don’t know a whole lot of details on this one yet. The hunter’s phone kept breaking up and cutting us off so I just eventually sent a text back that we’d meet in the morning and I’d find out more then. It's folks I've tracked for in the past. All I know for now is that they found “a lot of blood” for 75 yards and then nothing.

To be continued……

Weren't able to find the hunters buck this morning,but boy was it a treat to watch his dogs work!! Was great to finally meet you Harold

Enjoyed it!....That’s a really nice club y’all have.

Stop by anytime you're around and shoot the bull. I spread the word to all the other members that your dogs are the real deal!!

I appreciate it. I was a little surprised that deer wasn’t more hurt. It felt optimistic to begin with. With that quartering to shot, he may have just clipped him across the brisket or leg. He for sure didn’t hit the deer in the body or he’d have been dead and never went nearly that far.

Got him! We named him " The Blue Balled Buck"....Pics to come.....

Got another call.....Bow shot from yesterday afternoon. Hit behind shoulder but didn't penetrate well.... To be continued....

Alright, let’s start the stories with “The Blue Balled Buck”………

Let me go ahead and say upfront before y’all start railing on this hunter that it was someone who had never really been hunting much before. The guy’s boss, who I’ve tracked for several times in the past, had taken him on a hunting trip. I met “the boss” this morning to find the deer and he tells me upfront that he has no idea where it’s hit….just that it was putting out good blood and then they just lost it. There’s wasn’t anything to the track really…..it was pretty much a 400 yard run right to it. When we found it though, we were looking it over and the boss says….”Well damn, where did he hit it???” I pointed to a little blood spot on his hind quarter. Sure enough, the guy had hit him in the arse. The boss started laughing….”Hoooly chit!!”



Well of course we had to see where it had exited so we started to flip the deer over and that's when we saw it….it was the “Blue Balled Buck”!!!!!……

Yep, he had blew the balls right off of him.




It was a dang nice little buck though…..especially for someone’s first.

Nice!!! Good work

I mean. He’s probably glad he’s dead but wow. Did it hit the artery in the ham to kill it?

That shot is actually called pulling a trox.

Good work

Well thats the first time I have ever seen one with his nutz blown off.