Originally Posted by
Njhunter1118
Had a great blood trail and followed it for 500-600 yards. Then it just died out. My friend and I searched for 2 hours in circles around the last drop. Nothing. I got a text from the guy whose land I was searching on, and he said no sign of the deer. He suggested to check the standing corn not far away. I'm busy for tonight, so do you think if I combed that field tomorrow morning, the meat would be ok? It was 60 today and 35 tonight. I wanna find that deer!
Well, a blood trail is encouraging. Go forth in the direction of the blood trail and see if you can pick it up again or seek out areas of thick cover and water and look around. Deer have been known to back track when wounded as well, so back tracking from where you last seen blood and look for areas of cover and water. Far as the meat being good, that's a hard call. Depends on WHEN he died. If the carcass layed there thruout the day, I'd say no, especially if he was in the sun. However, he may not have expired yet and if he does so during the night, if you find him come morning, clean him out quickly and get him cool, it should be fine.