This is my last deer of our season. It's going to be some fine table fare. Shot him with my Zona recurve which I didn't bring for the tracking job.
I thought I had hit him to far back so I left him over night. I figured it would be a time to put my puppy on a tracking job of a real deer. I had been laying short blood trails at home for her and she did well there.
I put her on the faint blood trail 16 hours old and she acted like she didn't know what to do. She just ambled around smelling everything. I blood trailed slowly encouraging her to find the deer. After about 60 yards I spotted the deer dead 15 yards ahead so I stopped and allowed her the time to find it on her own. She did but was very skittish at first. I praised her for finding it and encouraged her to get closer. It didn't take long and she was biting and pulling on the entrance where the arrow went in. I will start laying trails in the woods from now on so she can get used to the smells out there and hopefully get better.
My shot was better than I had first thought, entering the last rib on the deer's left side and exiting behind it's right shoulder. It only went 70 yards max.
Here's Mesha with "Her" find :)
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Nice! Thats gonna be fun training that little dog.
Congrats, she will get better I'm sure.
Congrats!...you didn't shoot him with a Matthews did you?...lol just teasing GOODJOB! Or I should have said like they say on tv I just SMOKED EM,
Great job on a nice deer. Cool looking dog, too!
Good job with the deer and dog !!!!
Way to go!
QuoteOriginally posted by pred80:
Congrats!...you didn't shoot him with a Matthews did you?...lol just teasing GOODJOB! Or I should have said like they say on tv I just SMOKED EM,
No Sir I did not lol
I've had that hat a long time and rarely wear it. Don't know how I grabbed it off the hat rack. Haven't touched a compound in 4 years now...
Thanks
Corey
I was just teasing hope ya know that I had to say something I know your the real deal stickman I always droll on the stud buck you killed in 2012 in kansas ...am I right??
Great job Corey!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great job!!!
QuoteOriginally posted by pred80:
I was just teasing hope ya know that I had to say something I know your the real deal stickman I always droll on the stud buck you killed in 2012 in kansas ...am I right??
It was Nov 13th 2011. I remember it like it was yesterday.....
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
It was a buck of la lifetime for sure you mind sending me some eye candy my friend to get us outta this winter blues?
Congrats! Hunting in February, count me as jealous... :thumbsup:
nice job
Congrats on another one, Corey!
Bisch
QuoteOriginally posted by pred80:
It was a buck of la lifetime for sure you mind sending me some eye candy my friend to get us outta this winter blues?
Still can't believe I was the lucky guy to get such a fine buck!
Here ya go :)
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Congratulations!
THXS Corey he's a fine specimen I hope someday to fill my dreams with something like that hard to believe its been over 2 yrs
Great Buck and good looking pooch. Congrats!!!
QuoteOriginally posted by Easykeeper:
Congrats! Hunting in February, count me as jealous... :thumbsup:
It's my favorite time to hunt. Our bucks are rutting and the deer have been hunted hard making them tough to hunt though. I love a good challenge. :)