Blood trail question

[haztech3]

Shot a deer this am and looked for 3 hours before iHAD to leave.Going back this afternoon at 3.How old of a trail can a dog follow

[Mac...]

Probably depends on the dog...
The only problem with dogs is they tend to pick up other trails and get off coarse.
They take about as much patience as it would take you to look for yourself.
Just fun to watch them work.

Good luck finding your deer!

[Playa]

German Dogs (Drahts, Kurzhaars etc) are tested on 20 and 40 hour trails.

A dog worth anything should be able to track it. Some of the other scent will start to fade, but blood and especially inter-digital scent will be there.

But like Mac pointted out, its easy for a dog to start to follow a fresher track of another deer that crossed your deer's path.

How much blood do you have?

[PoacherPatrol]

Call in the dogs. The trail is not too old.

Good Luck!

[haztech3]

There's plenty of blood for about 60 yards then it just went cold.Made a good hit.Even watched her lay down.But I did not see her get back up and when I went to were she was there was blood every where.Then she made a huge circle and made it to 50 yds of where she laid down at.Ray charles could have followed the blood.........then.......nothing.I went down every possible trail for 100 yds in ask directions and never found another drop.Going back in a few hours and gonna see if I can't find someone with a dog in george town area

[Playa]

I bet she piled up in cover. Look 10-20 yds from that last laydown spot, away from trails in cover, I bet you find her.

The sort of trail you are describing makes me think you hit an artery and she has bled out pretty quickly from that laydown spot. I assume the blood you have seen is a good red color and doesnt have a watery texture or green tinge to it?

Wish i was closer, I'd help out in a heartbeat. Hope you find her.

[glen]

give me a call
947-3946
i get off at 2 and live a fwe minutes from G-town.
It should be no problem finding her.

[bboswell]

You are well within the time frame for a dog.

[bboswell]

The only problem with dogs is they tend to pick up other trails and get off coarse.
They take about as much patience as it would take you to look for yourself.
Just fun to watch them work.

Good luck finding your deer!

Ok
With all due respect that is the modest bunch of crap I have seen posted.

[haztech3]

All blood I found was bright red and bubbly.No dark blood at all and no chunky stuff.Don't blame BH failure although I was testing out the F15 fixed blade.its like she disappeared into thin air.I have followed gut shot deer that didn't go this far.

[glen]

Mac Ill put my little dog against your tracking skills any day of the week. He found a deer last week that forgot to leak and went 150 yards without a drop.

[haztech3]

Never used a dog before.What is a customary fee.Glen I will try to cal you shortly bro.

[glen]

You dont owe me anything you are right down the road. Just change a tire for some old lady or something next time you see someone in need.

[Buckrunner]

Awesome gesture Glen! I love this place. I wish I could get out of here just to watch the dog work! Good luck guys!

[systemnt]

Make sure you start the dog at the shot location (not the last sign of blood).
This will insure the dog correctly picks up your deer's 'signature scent' and will follow it even when the blood is no longer visible or available, and will allow it to track even if contaminated with other deer/animal scents.
(this is from many documents/books written on training and using tracking dogs.)