Last week Eibe and I were tracking a nice buck shot on youth day with a .243. We put the buck up out of a thicket 26 hours after the shot and chased him with no blood for nearly 2 miles as he took very classic evasive maneuvers including 2 circles and retracing his blood line form the day before. We eventually did see him 100 yards ahead looking fine as he ran along the fence of this pasture of fancy longhorns for the second time. At that point it was clear we were not going to be able to catch up with him so I opted for a picture with the beautiful and friendly cattle instead.
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Saturday was youth deer shotgun day in NJ. This young boy got a shot at a doe in the morning and he and his dad looked for sign of a hit and thought for sure he missed. I got there at 10 AM to track the father's archery gut shot buck from the morning before and the 11 year old of course went along for the track. We found the buck about 500 meters past their last blood from the day before. While tracking the buck, we came across fresh blood and thought we jumped him but my dog did not go "hot" and continued tracking cold. The whole thing made sense about 150 meters later when we found the dead buck that had obviously died the night before. It turned out that the boy had likely just clipped the doe he had shot at earlier. I was pretty proud of my dog, Eibe, for maintaining concentration on the buck when she crossed the fresh blood from the doe.
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