Congrats Brett! She was hidden pretty good under all that brush. How far did she end up going? Good luck on the track LC
Checked ot cam after shoveling the 100 yrd across street drive to green house and chickens. We have to get 15 straw bales this weekend for the coop. Plot was tore up but only 17 pics, all buck at night. Took screen shot of a wide 8 not the one from last night. Awlful lot of shooting going on behind us today. Sorry poor quality. Tried to get angle to show width Not a single doe has shown since that missed shot the other day
I couldn't find blood after 30 yds and even at that point it was drips every 10 yds and hard to see. Well I started zigzagging for a couple hundred yards when I jumped a good buck. He took off and I thought it was weird he had let me make so much noise over the past 20 minutes and never slipped off. Led me to believe he really trusted that bed or he was bedded downwind of my dead doe thinking she was still alive. Eithrr way I wanted to check that out so I walk about 80 yds to where I saw that buck and immediately saw blood. Tracked another 40 yds and there she was. I would have never found that doe without that buck jumping up.
I had a similar situation once, buck tending a dead doe in a ditch one morning...I suspect she was/recently was hot...and thought he had her locked down.
We cannot find that doe and I’m baffled. The shot looked great. Maybe a touch back but definitely not too far. She ran out to about 50 yards and stopped behind a cedar. The buck came in, walked by and then stared at the doe, got all nervous and then took off. Her fawn came in then and milled around for about 15 minutes and then finally ran off the way the buck ran. I was sure she’d be right there, but she wasn’t and that’s where the blood trail ended. Elly May couldn’t find it. I have no idea what was wrong with her, but she didn’t want to follow the blood trail that we did have. She wanted to follow the track the buck made. My wife tracked the blood to where I lost sight of her but it just vanished. I’m at a loss. I know those Slick Trick broad heads have been on those arrows in the quiver for three years, but they haven’t been taken out and put back in. They should have still been sharp enough to leave a good blood trail. I just have no idea where she went.
Maybe the doe circled just out of sight of where you lost blood and died in what happened to be the same direction the buck went. That dog has a phenomenal tracking record. Trust the dog and give her another chance.
