My son and son-inlaw did the tracking,I'll post pictures soon!I SHOT A BUCK,but...
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I SHOT A BUCK,but...
I shot a buck last night,late and tracked him untill the blood got spotty. Went back at sunrise and a coyote(s) found him first! In less than 10 hours,nothing left but bone... My son and son-inlaw did the tracking,I'll post pictures soon!
My son and son-inlaw did the tracking,I'll post pictures soon!Hunt Safe,
Jack
Jack
Jack
It's too bad you lost your deer.
I realize in your disappointment that you may well not have provided complete details. However, you seemed to be saying that you quit tracking at the point where the blood trail became spotty. That does sound as though you gave up prematurely. A bow hunter really MUST have a good light source available if you hunt in the afternoon.
The tracking should end only after NO MORE blood can be located. Other posts here have given detailed advice on how to conduct a night tracking exercise. I urge you to read them.
A hunter should feel badly about losing a wounded animal, and only just slightly less badly knowing that every reasonable effort has been made to recover wounded game, but failed. We owe that to our quarry. Feeling badly about losing game is one way of helping to keep our standards up...as to marksmanship, and as to stubbornness in pursuit.
I hope you aren't offended by my comments or they will have been counter productive. I merely want to encourage you, but in a positive way. We all make mistakes. Whether you did, I can't be sure, though it does sound like it.
Good luck, and better luck next time.
It's too bad you lost your deer.
I realize in your disappointment that you may well not have provided complete details. However, you seemed to be saying that you quit tracking at the point where the blood trail became spotty. That does sound as though you gave up prematurely. A bow hunter really MUST have a good light source available if you hunt in the afternoon.
The tracking should end only after NO MORE blood can be located. Other posts here have given detailed advice on how to conduct a night tracking exercise. I urge you to read them.
A hunter should feel badly about losing a wounded animal, and only just slightly less badly knowing that every reasonable effort has been made to recover wounded game, but failed. We owe that to our quarry. Feeling badly about losing game is one way of helping to keep our standards up...as to marksmanship, and as to stubbornness in pursuit.
I hope you aren't offended by my comments or they will have been counter productive. I merely want to encourage you, but in a positive way. We all make mistakes. Whether you did, I can't be sure, though it does sound like it.
Good luck, and better luck next time.
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Hi5,My son tracked that deer with a flashlight untill 8:15pm and the blood trail was few and far between. We both decited to wait untill daylight when the blood can be seen better and not take a chance of steping on any blood drops that can't be seen with a flashlight! I have bow hunted over 30 years and know when it's time to "back-off" of a trail and wait untill conditions would be more in our favor. My son did find a trail the next morning with the help of the sun,we did not give up,we just WAITED!!!
Hunt Safe,
Jack
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Woody Williams
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PaJack,
You did the right thing even though the coyotes got to him first.
Pushing him at night will only drive him further away, make it more difficult to find and he would still end up as coyote food.
Better luck next time..
You did the right thing even though the coyotes got to him first.
Pushing him at night will only drive him further away, make it more difficult to find and he would still end up as coyote food.
Better luck next time..
Woody Williams
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Hindsight is just that....I had a recent experience elk hunting where the blood trail disappeared when we tried to track at night. Fortunately with daybreak we were able to pick up the trail and find the elk, undamaged either by predators or decomposition. It's too bad you didn't have the same luck I did.
Not to criticise your post, but it did leave an impression. To me it sounded that you had given up prematurely that night. That's a judgement call. If I had been there instead of you maybe I would have made the same call as you did or persisted in tracking and had the same results anyway.
Your post didn't indicate your experience (why would it?), and I was hoping that if you were new at hunting that you would be encouraged to reflect on the incident. If you gave up too early that night, I was hoping you would recognize that for future hunting.
Thanks for the Email directing me to your post. A handshake over the internet is the best way to deal with these things.
Not to criticise your post, but it did leave an impression. To me it sounded that you had given up prematurely that night. That's a judgement call. If I had been there instead of you maybe I would have made the same call as you did or persisted in tracking and had the same results anyway.
Your post didn't indicate your experience (why would it?), and I was hoping that if you were new at hunting that you would be encouraged to reflect on the incident. If you gave up too early that night, I was hoping you would recognize that for future hunting.
Thanks for the Email directing me to your post. A handshake over the internet is the best way to deal with these things.