tracking is something id love to learn more about. i just dont know where to find resources on tracking...or ways to practice without sticking a deer...

last year i had one duck the string. took the arrow pretty high. lungs, spine or nothing. a full day later i called it nothing. im more than sure he lived..if he died it was from infection months later...but i doubt it. i didnt know what to do other than wait longer than i think i need to. i knew it was lungs or nothing since he didnt drop...figured an hour-hour and a half would be plenty if i got lucky and got the lungs. about 400yds and 3-4 hours later we lost blood. never found a bed. he never quit running. i feel me and my buddies did well on that track...even though we didnt recover a deer, i still believe he didnt die from my arrow. after that it was midnight and we already looked for a solid hour trying to pickup the trail...never did. started raining. i let the buddies go home and get some sleep...i needed them and their buddies in the morning. we setup a giant grid search. started small and got big. after the storm and being that it was raining the next day we were looking for a body mostly. we gave it our all.

cant say i like tracking. id like a successful one...that would make success sweeter IMO. but man...the feelings of a track. i started off extremely low..arrow with 4" of shaft missing. NO blood to start...hmmm UHTOH!! then he jumped a blowdown...ya!! blood! hes going to be right down over here i know it!! nooooope.....back down i went. every time we lost the trail i about threw up..all night i was sick. dont think i ate for a good couple days...and honestly almost sold my bow after my first couple weeks of bowhunting. glad i didnt...but man did that stink.