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Recovering Your Deer After the Shot
BANG!
Your shot was well placed. You expect to see the deer not far from where you took the shot.
After waiting 20 minutes, you climb out of your deer hunting tree stand and walk to where you took the shot.
You see a good blood trail. You start tracking being careful not to disturb the blood trail.
As you continue following the trail it seems to almost disappear. You look a few feet ahead and off to the left and right and still see no deer.
You are puzzled. Where could it have gone?
“It was a great hit,” you rationalize as you replay the shot through your mind.
This happened to me in a past deer hunting season. I shot a huge doe at less than 50 yards with my 12 gauge. Normally, at close range with a 12 gauge slug, deer have dropped in less than 50 yards.
So what did this doe do?
After the shot, the doe turned and ran straight away from me. I followed her blood trail nearly 100 yards. I noticed she turned back to where she had come out of the woods.
I found her another 30 yards up the trail towards the direction she came from. She was circling back around.
Deer are herd animals. I believe they feel safer in numbers. Perhaps this doe was heading back to the group she was with.
Next time you start following the trail of a deer you have shot and can’t find it immediately, try circling back to where you first took the shot. Chances are you will find the deer near that location.
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