Just stuck my biggest bow buck, but worried

[MONSTERKEN]

Man, i know and feel your pain, i lost a nice chocolate horned 9pt during bow season. I believe my shot was too far back. I was 20' in a tree, deer was 26 yds quartering away pretty hard. Had excellent blood for 40 yds and then just stopped. Called in some dogs and they followed scent up to 3/4 of a mile before they lost scent. I paid $100 to have the guy show up. Would have been another $100 if we recovered the deer. But at $400, I'd chalk that deer up to a loss and keep hunting. It happens to the best of us. It sucks yes, but keep hunting.

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[Sika]

One need only look at TBH to see how much people like shooting dogs. A deer and dog can get on to a neighboring property in a matter of seconds. Sometimes the dog can be caught or called off but not reliably. Landowner and neighboring hunters must be notified and permission obtained for the safety of the dog.

[lovemylegacy]

Spoke to 4 trackers and they didn't want to take the job


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Dang! That's no good.

[Tony Gutierrez]

Sorry for your luck brother.
Sometimes the Game Wardens are ready to help out in these situations. They hate to see loss of game animals and have rights to go wherever needed.
For the guys that don't understand these costs, you just have to put yourself in the trackers shoes.
Time and fuel equals money.
When I lived in S. Texas. (Zapata)
I had a 6K dog that I provided deer finder services with. Its a business in that area and when a customer pulls the trigger on a 10K deer and cant find it, a 100 dollar load fee and 300 bucks at time of recovery is a deal.
But its not a deal that the tracker has no money in. Lots of costs In these dogs, a whole lot of time and energy in maintaining them and keeping there training up.
Then there is the risk of them getting gored or on to hogs that cut them up or just straight up losing a dog.
I had 700 bucks in a GPS collar and often traveled more than 100 miles round trip. Many of them inside ranches at 15-20 MPH of rough country that tore up equipment.
So from this side of the PC. I completely understand there point.

[trophy8]

One need only look at TBH to see how much people like shooting dogs. A deer and dog can get on to a neighboring property in a matter of seconds. Sometimes the dog can be caught or called off but not reliably. Landowner and neighboring hunters must be notified and permission obtained for the safety of the dog.

Yep. I'm 100% for tracking them with dogs but I can say if I saw a dog run through our place following deer, I'd think it was up to no good as we have had wild dog issues and I'd likely shoot it. I would feel horrible killing a blood dog but if it happens fast I can see a mistake possibly happening.

[DXT Steve]

Man, I feel your pain. I lost second largest buck of my life this past Wednesday. Shot was high blood dried up. Sucks!

[canny]

Sorry for your luck brother.

Sometimes the Game Wardens are ready to help out in these situations. They hate to see loss of game animals and have rights to go wherever needed.

For the guys that don't understand these costs, you just have to put yourself in the trackers shoes.

Time and fuel equals money.

When I lived in S. Texas. (Zapata)

I had a 6K dog that I provided deer finder services with. Its a business in that area and when a customer pulls the trigger on a 10K deer and cant find it, a 100 dollar load fee and 300 bucks at time of recovery is a deal.

But its not a deal that the tracker has no money in. Lots of costs In these dogs, a whole lot of time and energy in maintaining them and keeping there training up.

Then there is the risk of them getting gored or on to hogs that cut them up or just straight up losing a dog.

I had 700 bucks in a GPS collar and often traveled more than 100 miles round trip. Many of them inside ranches at 15-20 MPH of rough country that tore up equipment.

So from this side of the PC. I completely understand there point.

No doubt. I train retrievers so I understand the costs. Just for me personally I couldn't spend the $ they charge, nothing against them at all.


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[jshouse]

You from New York?!


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No sir, maybe my family just shoots better than all yall

[Troup]

Which is a felony, law states you must have dog owners permission to shoot a dog. You cannot obtain permission from a stray dogs owner.

[soutexbowhunter]

Hope ol boy shows up

[Chance Love]

200 acres? Very doubtful ANY dog guy (or dog girl) will come to that. They would likely be off the place and onto the neighbor in less than a minute. Especially with that kind of sign. I'm not 100% sure that's even lung blood. I've seen a lot of tracks with blood like that, that were brisket shot. I really hope you get lucky and find him tomorrow. Good luck man.

And y'all don't be too quick to judge the dog guys for not taking the call. Without permission from the neighbors, and from the neighbor's neighbors, their hands are really tied.

[Cazador]

I'm guessing the deer was a no show tonight. Could be a good sign that he's down. Don't give up on getting permission and have a dog come out in the morning if that's a possibility. If not the buzzards should point you to him mid morning. Good luck with the recovery!

[Sika]

200 acres? Very doubtful ANY dog guy (or dog girl) will come to that. They would likely be off the place and onto the neighbor in less than a minute. Especially with that kind of sign. I'm not 100% sure that's even lung blood.

Agree...this deer was shot in the rear leg!

[J&M Hamilton10]

Maybe I missed it but is there water nearby to check for him? Hope you find him

[canny]

200 acres? Very doubtful ANY dog guy (or dog girl) will come to that. They would likely be off the place and onto the neighbor in less than a minute. Especially with that kind of sign. I'm not 100% sure that's even lung blood. I've seen a lot of tracks with blood like that, that were brisket shot. I really hope you get lucky and find him tomorrow. Good luck man.



And y'all don't be too quick to judge the dog guys for not taking the call. Without permission from the neighbors, and from the neighbor's neighbors, their hands are really tied.

Yeah there are only a couple things I know for sure. I know the shot was not in the brisket (100%) positive. Only thing I can think of is that I pulled the shot just enough to get into the shoulder and possibly connected with the scapula or something else that stopped the arrow from penetrating any further. No sign of him this evening so I will go sit in the morning and then grid search again for a few hours. I tracked today's search path with my GPS so tomorrow I'll take up where I left off and keep going


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