10 hour tracking job pays big dividend

[Izzy]

Beautiful, congrats.

[ChuckC]

Great job    

We have to be careful with hitting there.  We are all trained to "shoot em behind the shoulder"  but in reality, if you get very far back at all (more than just a very few inches) behind the elbow, you will very likely miss heart and lungs altogether and get liver.  

This still means dead deer but can cause problems cause we often (me too) see where we hit and expect lungs... dead deer, wait 20 - 30 min, when in reality we should wait much longer for many liver hits.  Then we follow up and bump the deer.  That sometimes means little or no more blood trail.    

Great job  Congrats
ChuckC

[Tique]

Nice job, great buck. Shows what a tough animal they are.  

[sabas silva]

         Huge deer

[vermonster13]

Well done!

[Holm-Made]

Nice job.  

Every deer reacts differently to a liver shot.  Some die rather quickly (30 minutes or less)while others take many hours like yours.  

What part of MN are you from? Chad

[Wannabe1]

Seems all the kudos have been given so, I'll just say, "Man, I'm jealous!"  

[Bonebuster]

What a beast of a buck...way to stay with it.

Congratulations!

[A.S.]

Way to stick with it!!! Congrats

[longbowben]

Congrats way to stick with it  

[Jim Parsell]

Great story and pictures Jim....  And, a great buck...  Isn't it the greatest feeling when you're on a long tracking job loosing blood, finding blood, and eventually finding meat...  We always call it our "old man easter egg hunt", nothing else can compare..  Looks like an ACS CX. If I may ask Jim, what weight and head were you using ?  I have one just like it but no nice buck to lay it on !!!!!!  Again, congrats.  Jim

[leatherneck]

Great job and way to stay with it. Looks like a pretty good shot to me. Must have just missed the vitals.

[Big_Al]

I had a very similar experience this past Saturday.  Fat deer can make for poor bloodtrails sometimes.  My buck looked like he had two big tubes of toothpaste sticking out of the entry and exit wounds - it was that hard, gristly fat.  Had the holes plugged shut.  As hard as my tracking job was, I think you had it a heck of a lot harder.  Very impressive!

[mmgrode]

Way to go on a great deer and way to stay with the deer!  Congratulations!!

[LEOPARD]

Very nice buck! Congrats!  

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

thanks everyone for the kind words.

It was a long tough day but worth every ounce of effort

wish me luck i am off to hunt iowa for two weeks with mr Shaun Webb

[Ron Haines]

Congrats on a great deer.  And way to stick it out.