Recently we have posted a couple of our videos showing a string tracker in use on bear, hogs and deer. I have recieved a ton of request for information on the units so I threw together a little video on selection, set-up and use of the units for big-game. I have used the units for 25+ years for deer, bear, hogs and turkey and I love the things. For those with interest, I hope this helps you.

Jerry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJzhCZ8k9A&feature=player_detailpage

Very well made and informative video

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Great video! I was wondering how those worked.

Excellent Video.  

Well put together, well spoken, and you hit all the key topics.  Very informative also.    

Thanks so much for taking the time.

Very informative video.

Great video, very well done and informative. Thanks for sharing it.

Funny this subject should come up. We have just been talking about these. Gives a color blind guy like myself more confidence when hunting alone, rain, etc.

Great video!!!

Have you ever had any issues with the string breaking in this briars, pines, etc. ?

The string is pretty tough. In open areas such as hardwoods, the string will go a very long way most of the time(150-200 yards). The record for me was a single lung shot deer that was shot strait down with no exit hole. That deer went well over 400 yards and never bled externally. We walked right to the deer in just a few minutes. In extreme thick areas which is the norm for us in our hog and bear hunts, You will most times get 70-120 yards which will get you to where the blood is flowing pretty well. The most important thing is that it gets you past the place where the animal begins to calm down and gives you the real direction that he is heading after that first mad dash following the shot. It is the shot that does not have an exit from a tree stand that will make you love these things.

Great video, thank you for taking the time to make it. I've been thinking of setting one up for turkey season, I'm sold. Leatherneck, you brought up a good point. My father is color blind as well and tracking a blood trail with him is pretty amusing to say the least. He's a good sport about all the ribbing my brother and I give him. He just reminds us how many more deer he's shot than us:)

Great idea for turkeys. Thanks for sharing, I never would have thought to remove some string before using. What if you shoot wood arrows, how would you go about attaching the string?

Great video it cost us a hog last week because we didn't have one Read the thread Blood at the bacon strip.Thanks

Nice video Jerry    

I've been using string-trackers for turkeys ever since I started hunting them with a bow.

I won't hunt turkeys without one, and will try to talk anyone that will listen to me not to hunt turks without one as well!

Are they foolproof?   No....nothing is....but I guarantee if you use one religiously, there will come a day that you're glad you did!

Lunar-tic,  I believe it says right on the packaging of the spools to remove some line before using.  

Also,  as for how to attach to wood arrows...check this link from the "how-to" forum here on TG. I did this a few years back....

http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000094

I am a firm believer in them also.  The first time I used one I hit a deer just before dark.  Almost immediately after I hit the deer it started to rain.  Any blood that was present was washed away.  I followed the string after dark for a long way, maybe 200 or more yards.  It was fully dark by then, when I finally came to the end of the string, and no deer!  I was bummed out, but went back in the morning to the end of the string.  Much to my releif the deer was only about 10 yards past the end of the string!  I probably would never have recovered that deer without the string tracker!  My son hit a bear this fall which did not bleed and we never recovered the bear.  He swears he had a perfect hit on the bear.  I convinced him he should be using a tracker from now on.

I've used them with compounds in the past, and for bear I think it's a must.  But now shooting a 45-50# trad bow I had my doubts, this video really helped reassure me.

Great idea and very informative! Thanks for posting such an educational video! You got me thinking!! Lol

Kenny  

Guys if you shoot wood arrows and there is any shaft bevel outside of your broadhead, just do a two wrap and then tie an improved clinch knot or any kind of clinching type knot. I did it for 15 years and never had a problem. I don't think I mentioned turkey hunting with a tracker but like Guru said, I will never shoot a turkey without one.
I am glad this helped some of you.

QuoteOriginally posted by Guru:
Nice video Jerry   :

I did this a few years back....

 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000094  

Curt, I knew you did something like this. I told Ben before we went pig hunting that I thought you did a thread on mounting a light for hogs. Now I remember which thread you did. This is a great idea that can go from bow to bow.

Great video!!  May look at this for turkey season!