Originally Posted by
nysmoker
Not sure where your at but in ny you can employ a leashed deer tracking dog . Not for profit group called Deer Search. We have a 34 percent recovery rate wich seems low but considering we are called as a last resort..... bad shots... mucked up trails from hard working hunters and weather , its not that bad .From the sounds of it ... you got a dead deer.. just my opinion.
If we had one around here or I knew of one, I most surely would have called them in. You can never have too much help in a situation like this and it would have been worth it from the start, just because the trail was fresh and not stomped up. I feel the deer may have been pushed by its yearlings, for it never seemed like it layed down, or that we found its bed where had. I know for a fact it was not pushed for we did not return till over 15-1/2hrs later. I have a feeling it is dead, just because I know I hit the far shoulder, resutling in that loud crack I heard and the stumble she did in getting back up and leaving.