Well, today was a "one that got away" day for my crew, all 4 of us saw deer. I fired at a large buck, when I first saw him all I could see were antlers moving through the brush, then he came into an opening I fired a shot, he kept walking, I jacked another shell, fired again, he kept walking, jacked another shell, got on him again fired, this time he booked it into the woods. I was firing from about 150-175 yards across a bog off hand.
I went over, found where I hit him, found hair and some good streaks of blood, we tracked that deer with a drip of blood every 2-3 feet, across a swamp, up and down hills. for _8_ hours, every time he would stop there would be a pool of blood, he never laid down. Twice he stopped to poo and their was blood all in the poo so we're thinking he may have been ponched but there was no ponch material, no fat and the blood was bright red. We lost the trail at about 4pm after the second time he poo'd blood, we think he was getting the blood out of himself and he wouldn't bleed for 20-30 yards after that because we had a lot of trouble the first time too.
I think we're going back in tomorrow and beat around see if he didn't lay down behind a house and bleed out eventually. I just hope we either find him or he makes it, after going for somewhere near 8 hours, UP some steep hills he's a tough ass deer and definitely earned it if he makes it.
