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<blockquote data-quote="Oklahomabassin" data-source="post: 3479799" data-attributes="member: 1546"><p>Thank you! </p><p>Honestly recovery is closer to 33% for tracking dogs. In general people will walk all over, call in buddies to help search blindly before calling a dog. They will pick up the scent pheromones and displace/scatter that trail out everywhere. Even worse, they will bump a poorly shot deer off its bed and when they do that the deer is often no bleeding anymore so it will make blood trailing nearly impossible by sight. </p><p></p><p>I really like to give archery gut shot deer 12 hours to expire before tracking. I can confirm that some will still be alive even 12 hours later. </p><p></p><p>Oklahoma Blood Trackers Association has really tried to educate hunters that if you don't have a good blood trail or blood starts to get thin to contact a tracking team near you before stomping around searching blindly. Trained dogs don't need the blood to track. They are tracking the scent that a wounded deer gives off. </p><p></p><p>On a difficult track a humans odds are lot lower. I found a buck that 4 people searched for about an hour before calling. Zero blood everywhere they looked. They were within 60 yards of it at one point. Jax sniffed it out. </p><p>Another track Jax smelled the deer 132 yards away but wasn't in hyper excited mode but at 113 yards, he grabbed another gear and pulled like a sled dog to the deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oklahomabassin, post: 3479799, member: 1546"] Thank you! Honestly recovery is closer to 33% for tracking dogs. In general people will walk all over, call in buddies to help search blindly before calling a dog. They will pick up the scent pheromones and displace/scatter that trail out everywhere. Even worse, they will bump a poorly shot deer off its bed and when they do that the deer is often no bleeding anymore so it will make blood trailing nearly impossible by sight. I really like to give archery gut shot deer 12 hours to expire before tracking. I can confirm that some will still be alive even 12 hours later. Oklahoma Blood Trackers Association has really tried to educate hunters that if you don't have a good blood trail or blood starts to get thin to contact a tracking team near you before stomping around searching blindly. Trained dogs don't need the blood to track. They are tracking the scent that a wounded deer gives off. On a difficult track a humans odds are lot lower. I found a buck that 4 people searched for about an hour before calling. Zero blood everywhere they looked. They were within 60 yards of it at one point. Jax sniffed it out. Another track Jax smelled the deer 132 yards away but wasn't in hyper excited mode but at 113 yards, he grabbed another gear and pulled like a sled dog to the deer. [/QUOTE]
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