John Jeanneney with Tommy |
Walt Dixon with Ari |
Another Old Timer, Walt Dixon from Tully, NY, also recovered a very nice buck in much harder conditions. Walt tracks with a 10.5-year-old Ari (Ariel von Moosbach-Zuzelek). He wrote: I just came back from Elk Hunting in Colorado and
received a call last night that a bowhunter hit a deer at 6:30 pm and after
waiting a short while, and before he could start to track, the skies opened up
pouring rain washing away any visible sign. He called last night, said he
thought he hit the deer near the liver, and I advised him to look for the arrow
in the morning and leave the deer alone. It rained again during the night and
this morning he called after finding the arrow broken in half near the edge of
the woods the deer entered after being shot.
With no visible sign, Ari smelled the arrow then
entered left the grass field and entered the woods under an apple tree. She
seemed to be working hard so I let her go and about 400 yards away she found the
buck who was hit in front of the left rear leg, quartering toward the bowhunter,
exiting low and puncturing the right rear leg. Intestines hung about 10 inches
out of the bottom of the buck and there was no sign visible the entire trail.
Even after all the rain, the 15 hour old trail left enough scent for Ari to
recover it! This old tracking pair is off and running for another
season!
2 comments:
Great job to everyone! When your title mentioned "Two veteran trackers" I thought you were referring to John and Tommy :).
It is great to see John out tracking every season. Keep up the great work.
I just started a new outdoors blog and found yours very interesting. Keep up the good work!
Dan
the-outdoorsman.org
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