ORIGINAL: Brian LMCO
I commend any person who gets on here to ask for help. No book...that's NO BOOK will tell you how to deal with every situation that can present itself when hitting a deer and having to track it.
I'll put my money on the guy that read the book and did his research BEFORE going hunting any day vs. the guy who knows nothing and is not prepared for even the most basic situations. No one expects new hunters to be flawless.....just have a good knowledge foundation to work with and build on.
Look at the success ratio here of deer found after asking for some help. I have no idea what the success ratio is but I would bet its a whole hell of alot better than if noone asked questions.
I would bet it is aweful. Single digit % of "need help" threads will find their deer because of help they get here. The problem is they have already done so many things wrong that no one can help them at that point and they are going on pure luck from then on. When someone gut shoots a deer with a low KE setup and 2 1/2" mechanicals and doesn't know where he went except that he saw him run after he went looking for him 10 minutes later............What can anyone here do to help that??
that should not keep anyone from asking for help.
Asking for help is one thing.........everyone needs help at one point or another. We all love to help fellow hunters. It just gets old real fast seeing people in the same old nightmare situations year after year that could have easily been prevented with minimal effort on the hunters part BEFORE hunting season even started.
I'm sure there are a few people who have lost deer because they didn't want to ask for help because of the arse ripping that goes on in this forum.
I'm sorry for not sugar coating the truth but if you come on this forum and say you hit a deer at 40 yards who knows where with broadheads you have shot into a target for 3 weeks (or not at all) you were aiming at his neck, you don't know any details of any kind that would be useful.......you don't know how to track and/or you jumped him twice and chased him into the next county.
You DESERVE an arse ripping!!!
I know my case is extreme but I assure you some or all of those scenerios have been played out here over and over again.
BASIC knowledge is not too much to expect of someone shooting at live animals IMO.
BTW my brother is massive color blind and he was of ZERO help in tracking my first buck...........I feel for you because that must make things even harder. Glad to hear you never lost one.