Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod

Decatur Major Contributor High Fence is NOT "Hunting", it's killing. There's a difference! Posts: 17,346	Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod Jul 18, 2006 9:28:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Decatur on Jul 18, 2006 9:28:08 GMT -5 I've met Bob a couple of times. He seems like a really down to earth guy. www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.CFPage?mode=article&objectID=28536&cmid=HPON1&cat=Gear
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Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod Jul 18, 2006 10:11:22 GMT -5

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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 18, 2006 10:11:22 GMT -5

Many years ago I found one of my deer by doing a personal "grid search".

I had bow shot the deer one morning and hit it too far back. After giving it 4 to 5 hours to lie down we started blood trailing. The deer was leaving decent blood for about 200 yards and then it was hands and knees searching for pin drops.

We know our area very well and John Trout Jr. went ahead to check runs that crossed a gravel road that was about 200 yards away in the direction that the deer was headed.

He found one teensy tiny drop of blood on the ditch by the road. As he proceeded across the road to the other side to pick up the run he jumped the deer. The deer just walked off with it's tail tucked and it's head low. This was about 3 in the afternoon.

We all backed out and went back to our gathering spot . About that time some dogs came chasing another deer through the area and headed towards the grown up 60 acres field that my deer was last seen in.

Hopefully the dogs would not jump him and run him into the next county.

At daybreak the next day, while others were hunting, I tried to get back on the blood trail. I could not find another drop. The overgrown field was bordered by agriculture fields. I believed that the deer was down and dead in the overgrown field IF the dogs had not got him up and running out of there.

It was just a matter of finding him. Easier said than done.

I went to the far corner of the field and started going back and forth across the field working my way backwards in 20 yard increments.

On my third pass I found him piled up in a bunch of honey suckle - quite dead. It took 24+ hours to find him, but I never gave up hope.

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DEERTRACKS Major Contributor Posts: 13,689	Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod Jul 18, 2006 10:29:58 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DEERTRACKS on Jul 18, 2006 10:29:58 GMT -5 The tracking grids I use resembles spider webs. The last spec of blood being the center of the web. Each successive web perimeter (north - south - east - west) is marked with orange marking ribbon.
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indianahick Major Contributor Posts: 2,811	Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod Jul 18, 2006 12:00:16 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by indianahick on Jul 18, 2006 12:00:16 GMT -5 I've tried circleing, vectors, gridding, but not large enought evidendly. But it does not hurt to read and learn another way. Information of this type never hurts.
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Trailing a shot deer-by Bob Foulkrod

Post by Decatur on Jul 18, 2006 9:28:08 GMT -5

Post by Woody Williams on Jul 18, 2006 10:11:22 GMT -5

Post by DEERTRACKS on Jul 18, 2006 10:29:58 GMT -5

Post by indianahick on Jul 18, 2006 12:00:16 GMT -5