Found this on another site, makes good sense, just wish I'd have thought about this along time ago, would have saved alot of time trying to find the exact spot where the deer was standing when hit since everything looks different when you come down out of your treestand.
Here's a trick I learned. I carry an arrow with bright orange or green fletching.
When I shoot a deer that's not on an obvious trail.(especially in the evening). I will pull it out and shoot it right were I shot the deer. Its amazing as the shadows grow or when you climb down how different things look. It saves alot of timestanding there trying to figure out if you were 10yds back or front of where you thought the deer was standing.
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I never really thought about that but i guess it would help quite a bit. Or you could use the FOB's which fall of during a passthrough and then you can find those and start tracking.
DANG BILLY!! That one of them thar flashing bullits, dem sure is purty!
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Yep, I've actually done this a few times... works perfectly. As has been said, the forest floor and how it looks changes amazingly once you hit the ground. I've even struggled for a minute or so finding my gloss-white caps on my arrow shafts after I've hit the ground unless I marked them mentall with a wierd log or something.
I have to admit that I have had to climb back in my stand to get another bearing on my arrow. I'm going to try the illumenok's this year, but may also try this method as well.
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