ncbowhunter

I'm not completely color blind but I ave alot of trouble with reds, browns, and greens. It makes blood trailing for me very difficult. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

zak123

There is this spray that you can spray around and when it hits the blood it turns blue.

Shootem up870

the spray zak is referring to can be found at cabelas and basspro. i think it is made by tinks but im not for sure. maybe you could get someone to train a dog for you to track deer. sorry i cant help more

Charlie P

You can also use hydrogen pyroxide, it bubbles when it hits blood cheaper too.

Hoopy

Hydrogen Peroxide DOES work, but it would be hard as heck to see.
My advice for what it's worth?
#1 Yell at whatever god you believe in for making you color blind
#2 Bring someone along to help you locate the deer
#3 Use Cyanide tipped arrows (if your trophy hunting, which I dont like)
#4 tell the deer to drop dead so you dont have to look for it, before you shoot it.

One of these is a good idea. I know you will make the right choice.

Tree climber

get you a small Beagls dog and train to blood trail.

get the spray the hi-lights blood.

thats all I can go with.

c903

Corrective eye glasses for some forms of color blindness.

http://www.wtajtv.com/health/cbglass.html

Matt / PA

Other than bringing someone along to help.......one of the biggest things that you can do for yourself is to use what you DO have. Color blind or not you can still see. Take extra care because of your limitations to pay very close attention to the hit, and maybe even more importantly where the animal is going as it runs away. Pay very close attention to it's route, mark landmarks carefully and don't stop watching until it's out of sight completely. The vast majority of well hit (lung/heart/major vessel) animals don't make it very far out of sight depending upon terrain, so many probably won't be laying far from your last noted landmark. If you are afraid of losing that landmark, after you have waited an appropriate amount of time mark where the animal was standing and head directly to the exact last spot you saw the animal. You could easily waste valuable time with blood drying sorting out a trail to the spot you could just walk straight to.
Be very careful hunting in the rain........
If by yourself, look for the "Shine" of blood. A good fresh trail will be wet.If everything in the woods is dry then the blood will stand out especially in an artificial light.

Don't rely on the peroxide, just use it as a tool to compliment your woodsmanship.

lou-lou

The product that is mention above is called Starlight bloodhound. He's an idea , talk to one of your cop friends and see if they have anything like that at the station. Sure bet that they do.

slicendice

I would suggest that in the early season, when it is warm, look for ants. I've almost always seen ants on my blood trails when tracking during early season. It doesn't seem to take long for them to find the trail, either.

I also agree with alot of what Matt/PA wrote. Use your other senses. Alot of times, I've heard the deer "crash" even if I couldn't actually see them fall.

Slice.