RE: Finding Wounded Whitetails
Bulzeye,
May I make a suggestion to you and everyone that hunts big game animals.
Please get toknow of someone that has a track dog or, if possible, get one for yourself. I'm fortunate in two ways, I live where I can have dogs, and have had bird dogs, beagles, & Labs that would track a wounded deer or hog. Not all of them of course, but a lot over the years. Also here in Georgia you can get a list of people throughout the state that have track dogs. Some of these peoplecharge a fee, some don't.
I now have a 4 year old beagle that will track a deer. Just last weekend, a friend shot a deer with his muzzle loader and because of the smoke, distance, and the thick brush, plus no blood, he had no idea which way the deer went. There was so many deer tracks he couldn't tell which deer went where. I put my beagle down at the site and he took off, we found the deer within 30 minutes.
I might add, I have never done any training of my track dogs. If it's in the dog, he/she will naturally track.
dog1