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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/24/18 05:05 PM
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Dude, do you have a job? Great find on that last deer too! Dr. B I've got two!.....I'm a housewife and a hunter...……. Nice work when you can get it! Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/24/18 05:08 PM
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Call just came in for tomorrow morning…….The hunter was still in the woods when he called me. He said he had just shot a really big buck but is positive that he hit it through the guts. The deer ran about 60 yards, stopped, and started licking a dark spot on its belly. It then eased on off out of site. The hunter says he has green slime on his arrow and found a little bit of blood where the buck stopped. He backed out without tracking it any further. We’re gonna give it overnight and meet first thing in the morning. Hopefully the deer will just bed up and die within a few hundred yards. To be continued……..
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/24/18 06:18 PM
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My buddies the one that shot that buck, I’ve seen pictures of blood he found and and it’s bright red, almost like he clipped something vital. Like you said, hopefully he beds up close and expires over night
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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That’s a good sign that we have a little blood to go on. That’ll make it easier on the dogs to track. The way the buck stopped and started licking its wound makes me a little nervous……but if he hit it solid through the guts its gonna die. Its just a matter of how long it takes. I’ve tracked gut shots that have still been good and alive the next morning enough to get up and run off. He definitely did the right thing though. Backing out and leaving him alone overnight gives us the best odds of recovery. Fingers crossed that it’s a simple 200-300 yard run right to a dead deer.
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/25/18 04:56 AM
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I know I wouldn’t have, I’m anxious to see the results. If y’all don’t find it, please cut his short tail before you leave 😂
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/25/18 07:01 AM
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Got him!....but he's floating in the center of a big pond.....bout to watch the hunter and friends do some swimming
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/25/18 07:18 AM
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Awesome.... Waiting on the story and pics
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/25/18 07:36 AM
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Got another call.... another gut shot..... stories and pics later today
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/25/18 04:13 PM
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Well, here’s the conclusion to the first story…….I’m gonna save the second one for tomorrow morning. The track was a pretty straight forward trot of about 400 yards straight to where the deer had gone. The fun part was when we found it……We topped a hill and I could see a big pond up ahead of us straight toward the direction we were headed. I told the hunter….”There’s no way were not about to go to that pond.”…..Sure enough the dogs took us right the edge of it and out in the center of it you could see the buck floating. We started talking about boats and canoes and next thing I know the hunter is damn near butt naked going in with hopes of no gators!!!... ..Damn what we’ll do for a buck… Good times!
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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That's one way to keep the yotes off him. lol. Good job on the recovery. Very true......the cold water also helps to chill the meat.
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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I woulda thought Shelby would have jumped in and retrieved like it was a duck. 😀 She badly wanted to swim out with the hunter to get the deer but I made her stay back. I was afraid she would get in his way and it was already enough of a struggle for him. You're on a roll Harold!!! Nice work!! Well, we were on a roll until yesterday evening...…. So lets tell about the second track. My pride is still stinging a little on this one. We’re still gonna tell the stories of the good, the bad, AND the ugly though…… Just after we found the first deer I got another call on a gut shot deer from the evening before. We loaded up and headed to it arriving just before lunch. The hunter had shot a really good buck the evening before but it was getting dark enough that he couldn’t see where he hit it. He had green slime on his arrow and a piece of gut matter hanging on the barbwire fence the deer ran through as it bounced off. He said he thought he heard the deer crashing but still decided to give the deer overnight knowing it was a gut hit. When he went back the next morning there was no deer or blood. We started tracking the deer and it seemed like it was gonna be a text book gut hit find just like the first one. The track was 18-19 hrs old with zero blood but the dogs lit out on it tracking it without a whole lot of issues. At about the 400 yard mark though, it was just like the track disappeared. Otis started working a check and never was able to pick back up on it. I’m still a little baffled as to why. The area we were searching was insanely thick and absolutely infested with hogs to the point that me and the hunter could constantly smell them as we walked around. All I can figure is that maybe the strong hog smell was messing up the old track. We even had live hogs around us while trying to track but the dogs didn’t act distracted by them. We grid searched a 500 yard radius for a couple of hours with no luck. It hurt to have to give up on this one knowing that the deer is very likely dead somewhere in the area. The hunter said they had a lot of yotes too so its possible that maybe they got in behind the deer and ran him WAY off. I’ve had that happen before but we still found the deer. It was a mile away from the hit site but we were still able to track to it. We don’t have too many get away that we should be able to find but the deer won this round. I’d sure like to know what happened and where he went.
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/26/18 05:57 PM
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Thanks man!........We went on a second track today too but didn’t have any luck on it. I think it was just a muscle wound or something. It was a freaking giant of a deer though. One of the bigger ones I’ve probably tracked that I’ve seen trail cam pics of. The hunter was in a ground blind and took a really hard quartering away shot on the deer at about 20 yards using expandable broadheads. He said the arrow stuck in the deer and it ran off. They had searched for the deer last night without much luck…..very, very little blood. They had gotten lucky and actually just walked up a spot about 300 yards from the hit site but never found any more. The dogs hit around on a little bit of scent here and there but never really acted like they could pick up on it at all……which leads me to believe it wasn’t hit in the body cavity. We grid searched for a couple of hours and called it off. I think maybe he just wedged that expandable in between the front shoulder and the body cavity with it being a steep quartering away shot. You’re way better off to bury it up in their guts on a shot like that rather than flirt with that front shoulder.. Chit happens though……….
Just got an update on the above track we went on last week. The deer is fine and has showed back up on camera. If you look close in the picture you can see a nice gash on the deer’s side…..
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/27/18 10:11 AM
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Call just came in from the morning hunt...….
Hunter hit a nice buck in the shoulder and estimates he got 6 inches of penetration. They've found good blood for a little ways and then lost it. They also found a little bit of some kind of tissue. That's all I know for now.....We're gonna give it a couple more hours and see what we can do. It's kinda an iffy hit that may or may not be dead by this afternoon. It may not even be a lethal hit. It's all a matter of if they got enough penetration through the shoulder.
To be continued...….
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Re: The Tales of Otis and Shelby Lou
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10/27/18 04:41 PM
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We arrived around one o’clock and the dogs quickly picked up the trail and took us around 500 yards to where the deer was bedded. That’s where Otis went on bay but by the time we moved in the deer bolted. I could tell by the way Otis was slowly pushing it and barking at it that the deer was probably hurting pretty bad. Being bow season though I was skeptical that we could finish him off. After pushing him a few hundred yards through some nasty thick undergrowth we pulled off of him for a moment and regrouped. I told the hunter we may have to let this one lay for a while longer but we would push him just a little farther to see what happened. Fortunately for us there was a pond just up ahead and that was where the buck finally gave out. After swimming across the pond he seemed to be wore out but still alive. We formed a game plan for the hunter to sneak around the pond and put another arrow in him while I kept his attention. It all worked out and the hunter was able to put a finishing shot on him. The buck jumped and ran after being hit but quickly went right back down within 100 yards and that was the end of it………. BTW……I must have misunderstood the hunter and he said 16 inches instead of 6 because he had ¾ of his arrow broke off inside the deer from front shoulder all the way to the hind quarter on a “quartering to” shot. I have no idea how this deer was even still alive much less able to swim a pond. If you look straight below Shelby's collar you can see the broadhead pooching the skin out.
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