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Some good advice here. I personally don’t like multiple people on a trail. More chances of someone disturbing the trail wondering around. I use TP to make blood spots. Easy to see the route and if I miss picking some up, it doesn’t last long after a rain or two. Being colorblind is not a good thing when it comes to a blood trail. I have enlisted the help of my wife in the past when I just can’t find that next drop of blood. I now keep a spray bottle in the truck with peroxide and yellow food coloring in it. Even on dried blood, it works. You hope it never happens, but when it does, you owe the animal every effort for recovery.
First rule of deer recovery...be overly cautious. You can always recover from that mindframe. You cant from being overly aggressive.
Great idea. I will have to remember this. Biggest mistake for me was trailing too soon. Even when I was told to give it more time, my impatience got the better of me and I bumped the deer never to be found. I learned it the hard way and will never do it again.
The biggest mistake I seen while tracking with dogs is bowhunters quiting too soon and start blind searching after they think blood trail ran out. More often then not we find blood again after they think its ran out. Mark the trail and stay with it.
I always make waypoints with my gps of all blood. More often than not they make a straight line and if I lose the trail, I’ll keep going along that track. Found a couple down deer that way. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
