I don't disagree with the notion that if you loose a blood trail you'd be wise to go to such places, but back to my original statement. DOn't take it as an absolute and cast your stones all in that direction or you may be wasting some valuable daylight. Many seem to want to say, "if you loose him look for the water". That's not always true. My tracking skills are just fine.[8D] Although I'll admit, the old eyes are not as quick to pick up those tiny spots sometimes. Seems like I have to move slower every year.
Ditto!
I dont' know how many times I hear people say (or see them print in this case) "If you lose the blood trail you can count on that wounded deer going to water!" Seems like some will even want to"
guarantee" that if you find water you will find your animal....My opinion is there aren't any absolutes, period. More often than not, the deer I have made iffy hits on and those that I have tracked for others, water was a non-factor in the recoveryeven when it was available to the animal hours after impact.