I use the panty hose thing until last year when I bought a pair of ingenious socks from cabelas, guys these socks are worth every penny. They are about 15 bucks. The tampon thing i use every year but make sure it's unscented. My best tip is make sure you leave all your tracking equiptment back at the truck when you bowhunt, not only will it give the animal time to die it will let you gather your thought and make a game plan. Also change your clothes when you get back to the truck, don't want to get blood on your scent-lok or good hunting clothes. It also makes you take only the nessessary gear with you, knife , flashlight, gloves etc. Don't want to be weighted down, you have a deer to drag still. When tracking sometimes less is more, People I mean, the more you have the better chance of a screw up. I thing that I have found out over the years about tracking is that blue lights red lights or any color of light other than soft white will only make the tracking harder. Blue lights make the blood look like tar, with dirt in the back ground and dew on the ground it makes for a hard track, because anything wet will look like tar. We spend most of out lives around soft white light bulbs, in our home, at work just about everywhere, our eyes have been trained to distinguish color with that type of light since we were little. When looking for little specks of blood in the woods, soft white color in a flashlight will out perform any other, because we are used to it. Great tips so far keep it up guys and gals.