This is in response to the start of an off-topic discussion on using dogs for tracking deer.
TRiley: 12 a year is awesome. Does he track all deer that get shot by certain close hunters or your own deer? Or does he only go on after they can't be found. The writer of the most popular deer tracking book John Jeanneney, says he is about 200 finds for over 800 tracks at the point where he wrote his second edition. Pretty cool stuff, but he has never been called to track a heart shot or jugular shot deer, just because hunters always find them easily. He has gone out on the hardest of the hardest deer to find, many of which are not critically wounded and finds 25% of them. Pretty good if you ask me. I'll be taking my dog on as many as possible, even ones that are confirmed dropped and most likely dead, just for training.
TRiley: 12 a year is awesome. Does he track all deer that get shot by certain close hunters or your own deer? Or does he only go on after they can't be found. The writer of the most popular deer tracking book John Jeanneney, says he is about 200 finds for over 800 tracks at the point where he wrote his second edition. Pretty cool stuff, but he has never been called to track a heart shot or jugular shot deer, just because hunters always find them easily. He has gone out on the hardest of the hardest deer to find, many of which are not critically wounded and finds 25% of them. Pretty good if you ask me. I'll be taking my dog on as many as possible, even ones that are confirmed dropped and most likely dead, just for training.