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Post by Sandbur on Feb 25, 2020 5:57:43 GMT -6
I am one person who hates to even shoot at a deer with the bow as I hate the tracking. I hang my bow up , get out of the stand early, or hunt low odds places so I don’t have to shoot at a deer.
Better to wait for a rifle and kill one.
Bow season is just quiet time in the woods for me. I usually don’t want to kill a deer in warm weather anyway.
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Post by Reagan on Feb 25, 2020 6:10:27 GMT -6
Am I the only one that loves to track a deer? Following a blood trail is a skill that all hunters should have. I had my daughter blood trailing my deer at age 6 or 7. I often blood trail deer even when I see them fall just to learn something or find an arrow.
When I killed my bull elk, I barely clipped one lung and got liver with center punching the other lung. We started tracking after an hour wait and jumped him. 4-5 hours of after starting, we found him. My dad’s tracking skills were key to finding that elk. The track is what I remember the most of that hunt.
I don’t like blood trails that lead to no deer. Losing one sucks. But I love a trail that leads to my deer. When I see a bow kill drop, I’m happy but it always feels like a missed out on something.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 25, 2020 6:13:39 GMT -6
Am I the only one that loves to track a deer? Following a blood trail is a skill that all hunters should have. I had my daughter blood trailing my deer at age 6 or 7. I often blood trail deer even when I see them fall just to learn something or find an arrow. When I killed my bull elk, I barely clipped one lung and got liver with center punching the other lung. We started tracking after an hour wait and jumped him. 4-5 hours of after starting, we found him. My dad’s tracking skills were key to finding that elk. The track is what I remember the most of that hunt. I don’t like blood trails that lead to no deer. Losing one sucks. But I love a trail that leads to my deer. When I see a bow kill drop, I’m happy but it always feels like a missed out on something. Not this guy. Being partly color blind stinks. I go get my wife when we need to track. I hate it and always will. Sorry.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 25, 2020 6:46:00 GMT -6
Never lost a deer with a gun. Biggest crippler since polio with my recurve. Until I put up the fence. So am I now the most ethical hunter on this forum? Am I the only one willing to put forth maximum effort to recover game? How long have you hunted with a rifle?
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 25, 2020 6:48:19 GMT -6
When my oldest daughter was about 12, she wanted to bow hunt and I discouraged her since I hated tracking deer. She is an avid rifle hunter.
We have also found out that she is color blind like me.
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Post by batman on Feb 25, 2020 6:56:13 GMT -6
Never lost a deer with a gun. Biggest crippler since polio with my recurve. Until I put up the fence. So am I now the most ethical hunter on this forum? Am I the only one willing to put forth maximum effort to recover game? How long have you hunted with a rifle? 1 year.
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Post by MN Slick on Feb 25, 2020 8:28:06 GMT -6
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Post by terrifictom on Feb 25, 2020 9:12:37 GMT -6
Am I the only one that loves to track a deer? Following a blood trail is a skill that all hunters should have. I had my daughter blood trailing my deer at age 6 or 7. I often blood trail deer even when I see them fall just to learn something or find an arrow. When I killed my bull elk, I barely clipped one lung and got liver with center punching the other lung. We started tracking after an hour wait and jumped him. 4-5 hours of after starting, we found him. My dad’s tracking skills were key to finding that elk. The track is what I remember the most of that hunt. I don’t like blood trails that lead to no deer. Losing one sucks. But I love a trail that leads to my deer. When I see a bow kill drop, I’m happy but it always feels like a missed out on something. Not this guy. Being partly color blind stinks. I go get my wife when we need to track. I hate it and always will. Sorry. A even better skill to have is being able to follow a track without blood. When I started helping bear guide I was taught how to track without blood because bear just don't leave a blood trail all the time. It makes it a lot easier to follow up on any shot animal including deer. In your case being color blind it would be a big help.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 25, 2020 9:23:44 GMT -6
Lost numerous deer with a bow. They never come in the way they do on the hunting shows. Always have to make a quick decision. Some are the right decision some wrong.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 25, 2020 10:09:13 GMT -6
Everyone misses and wounds deer, if they have hunted a long time and say they have never missed or wounded a deer, more than likely stretching it.
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Post by Coda1 on Feb 25, 2020 18:48:11 GMT -6
Am I the only one that loves to track a deer? Following a blood trail is a skill that all hunters should have. I had my daughter blood trailing my deer at age 6 or 7. I often blood trail deer even when I see them fall just to learn something or find an arrow. When I killed my bull elk, I barely clipped one lung and got liver with center punching the other lung. We started tracking after an hour wait and jumped him. 4-5 hours of after starting, we found him. My dad’s tracking skills were key to finding that elk. The track is what I remember the most of that hunt. I don’t like blood trails that lead to no deer. Losing one sucks. But I love a trail that leads to my deer. When I see a bow kill drop, I’m happy but it always feels like a missed out on something.
I enjoy it too as long as I recover the deer. I once tracked my brothers deer just to find out were he was after he left a note saying he shot a deer. I've followed blood trails I've found for a short distance out of curiosity before. Followed a trail back from a gut pile to find out were it was shot.
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Post by Satchmo on Feb 26, 2020 18:19:54 GMT -6
I’ve lost 3 does with rifle where blood was drawn. One superficial, one I busted up a front shoulder and it got in to an 80 acre chunk in WI that had 8 guys in it. I wasn’t going in there. The third I shot at a bad angle and snow tracked it in the dark. I got within 6 ft of that deer twice, but didn’t have a gun. I have never tracked at night since without a sidearm. I enjoy tracking, as long as it’s not my deer.
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 26, 2020 19:00:39 GMT -6
Tracking is fun. I've shot deer just because the niece and nephew were in town so that I could get them for the track. Also not uncommon to get the kids and some of their friends for a recovery. It can be lots of fun, like winning a game of strategy. Can be frustrating when there's no blood to track or the deer isn't found.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 26, 2020 19:37:14 GMT -6
Tracking is fun. I've shot deer just because the niece and nephew were in town so that I could get them for the track. Also not uncommon to get the kids and some of their friends for a recovery. It can be lots of fun, like winning a game of strategy. Can be frustrating when there's no blood to track or the deer isn't found. I had a lady coworker who said the same thing.
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 26, 2020 20:01:47 GMT -6
Tracking is fun. I've shot deer just because the niece and nephew were in town so that I could get them for the track. Also not uncommon to get the kids and some of their friends for a recovery. It can be lots of fun, like winning a game of strategy. Can be frustrating when there's no blood to track or the deer isn't found. I had a lady coworker who said the same thing. I'm probably not her.
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