""Probably " in answer to original question... blood trailing ( because we are not truly tracking) is not studied and relied on as much due to onset of tracking dogs . What I think is a lost art is marksmanship, which eliminates a lot of looking for missing deer. . I wouldn't hesitate to call a dog before I stumbled around hoping like I used to in my younger days. Have not lost many, but ones I did were on me and I wish tracking dogs had been a known resource back in the late 80's early 90's.
Besides- what better read is there in on here than " A Tracking Story"....


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