Hit em with your best shot

Cal Sportsman ^ | 11/11/2016 | C Buckner

[w1n1]

Earlier in my years I had learned the skill of tracking, but as you know its a perishable skill. If you don't track much, chances are you wouldn't be a good tracker. My thought was that if I can track, this would help me track my game once its been hit with my arrow. What I didn’t know was where you hit your game matters in terms of being able to track it down or never finding it.

As in tracking where you look for the tell tale sign within the bushes of where the game has gone. It's important to look at the blood on your arrow which tells you about your shot placement.

Take a look at the video to get some great descriptions of exactly what to look for on your arrows and see just how well placed your shot was, see the video here. How many of you already knew this?

[riverrunner]

I am on my third blood trailing dog makes finding game real easy.

[ozzymandus]

I have seen more than one deer walking around with an arrow in it. I have a very low opinion of bow hunting.

[tired&retired]

We couldn’t use dogs on deer in Pennsylvania. We were the dogs.

Color of blood, type and location of spray vs drops... easy to tell a lot about location of hit and degree of injury.

Gut shots have a unique smell that is easy to follow. Once you’ve smelled it you will never forget it.

I’ve always liked to trail after dark with a lantern as a drop of blood will glow in the dark at quite a distance and is easy to follow. You can see a small drop of blood at 50 ft in dried leaves at night when the light hits it.

When wounded, they usually head down hill toward water and will lay down and die if not pressed too hard.

Nothing beats a good kill shot....

I’ve given up hunting many years ago but was quite the nimrod when young.(in the literary meaning)