I need a deer tracking dog please

[highside74]

On my way home I stopped by my place to pic up my bow and an SD card to go take a walk back to my stand that is about 3 miles from my place on some private property. I wasn't supposed to be hunting tonight. I had made an agreement with the wife to do the halloween kids stuff at the school tonight and be able to hunt Sat. Sun. Mon. to try and fill my multi season deer tag. My plan was just to go back and check the Camera in anticipation of tomorrow's hunt.

I know what your thinking but that's not what happened. I walked back there and checked my camera. Dead batteries No pics. except the one of me working to put up my stand. The cold must have got them. So I leave and head up to town to get some batteries for the morning.

This is where it get's interesting. On my way home just before my road is a giant buck standing to cross the road. It jump's back into the wood lot that is about 100 acres of timber that has been vacant for as long as I can remember. Just one of those rural wood lots that nobody ever visit's. So I pull down my road, park, put my orange on and grab my bow and walk up to just before I think he was standing and step about 15 yards into the trees. He is standing about 30 yards away right where he went in with his butt to me looking over his shoulder at me. few seconds later he turns broadside and step to my left to try and clear a shooting lane. I release my arrow and I hear a solid impact sound but never saw the flight of the arrow or where it hit him. I follow up after the shot but can't find him so I back out and call my buddy. Tell him what happened and that I found my arrow with what I think is blood but I'm color blind and it wasn't as much as I thought it should be if it was a lung hit. He came back with me and found a blood trail that lead him to believe it was a liver hit because of the deep red blood. We followed it for 150-200 yards until it stopped. Where it stopped was to good patches of blood. 4 or so inches of spatter in 2 spot's. We looked for 30-40 more minutes in a 20 yard area on our knees even looking for which way he might have gone. No such luck. I am bummed out.

So the question is like it states in the title of the thread.

Does anyone have a deer tracking do that want's to come to the Eatonville area and help me look for my buck? He was super rutted up. After I shot him and I went to find my arrow it smelled like somebody set off a buck bomb scent can. It has been raining off and on pretty hard all afternoon so i don't even know if a dog would help. But I figured I would reach out to you folk's on here to see if anyone could help. Thanks

Other than that 30 or 40 of you guys walkin that wood lot with me would be the other option One of us is bound to step on him. lol

[Bob33]

Good luck.  That is too bad.  I doubt you will get any public offers since using a dog is not legal.

[highside74]

It didn't even cross my mind that using a dog to find a dead deer would be against the law. PM's would be ok. If anyone would like to take a nice stroll in the wood's tomorrow with me and their dog that may or may not be able to find a dead deer if there just happened to be one around by accident. Let me know.

[AKBowman]

Im sure someone already responded since I've been writing this but be careful using dogs in this state to recover deer is illegal. I hope you find your buck.

[highside74]

What a shame. I feel like crap. Thanks for keeping me out of trouble.

[dreamunelk]

Get back out there in the morning and cover every square foot of ground from the last blood.  Doubt he went very far if hit hard. 

[powderbounder]

Sure hope its a deaf,dumb,blind one. Or maybe a little handicapped. Let me know if cant find it. Maybe I can break loose for awhile and come help after being in the woods for awhile.

[highside74]

That just isn't right Powderpuff. He wasn't handicapped at all. I guess that's why I'm not skinning a buck right now.

[EDT]

If you had as much blood as you say, it may be pretty close.  Good luck, spend the whole day covering that whole area to find it.  good luck.

[fish vacuum]

I'd use a dog if it meant finding a down animal, legal or not. Going without a weapon might help with the legal part. I've had good experiences with enforcement officers and I think many of them would understand.

[AKBowman]

pm sent let me know before 11pm

[lewy]

sometimes liver hit deer will not expire for 12+ hours! i know its hard to wait, but if left alone he should bed down and die. make a grid pattern of that 100 acres every 10 feet or so depending on how thick it is, you should find him. good luck man!

[Cleve]

Any update?

[highside74]

Looked for 4 hours yesterday with a friend. We turned up nothing. It is typical westside forest. Unless we step on him he is gonna stay hidden. Some of the fern's are 5ft tall. The blood was very spotty at best until the last spot's of blood it was just a drop here and a drop there. We had to find it on the bottom of fern leaves until the last spot where he stopped. Trail split's where he stopped. one is the trail he was on the other is to the left. The main trail is covered by ferns on both sides for 15ft. There is no way he went through there without leaving blood. We looked on the first 20-30 ft of both trail's for 45 min. yesterday to find blood. The good part about where he stopped is it's right in the middle of 5 or 6 big fir tree's and it's completly protected from the rain. But it hasn't helped with finding any more blood.

[Button Nubbs]

Get out there and do a grid search til you find him! Meats probably gone but at least you have peace of mind and a rack on the wall.

[RC3]

My dog can and will track blood and if I need her to I will use her........haven't ever had to but will if the situation arises don't care if its legal or not

[ELKBURGER]

Get some hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. it will foam up white if it hits any spot of blood. Worth a shot

[Goshawk]

The last I checked, you can use a dog to recover a dead game animal, not however, to find a wounded animal.
So, the drill is to get a dog on a leash, then without so much as a pocket knife on your person, or anyone with you, go for a walk in the area you hope to find 'em. Nothing illegal about walking a dog in the woods...

[singleshot12]

 

[highside74]

Went back in for 3 hours today. Nothing. Then I take a buddy in there for 45 min and he turns up blood on the trail we thought there was no way he went through there because we could find blood. So now we have another direction. I'm not giving up. 

[Todd_ID]

I'm not giving up.

Good plan!  It sounds like your time is limited to only being able to take short little trips here and there.  Always a chance you'll find him, and it's certainly more than worth trying every available hour.

[AOD]

any news?

[Lcl 66 Tinner]

Get some hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. it will foam up white if it hits any spot of blood. Worth a shot

This works' I"ve had to do this and it worked awesomely. Bring extra hydrogen peroxide.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Good luck dude, I am pulling for you. I lost a blacktail like that once.

[400out]

Get some hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. it will foam up white if it hits any spot of blood. Worth a shot

This works' I"ve had to do this and it worked awesomely. Bring extra hydrogen peroxide.

that could take a lot of hydro! better fill you camel pack with it

[highside74]

Will it work even after rain and 5 days?

[ELKBURGER]

Will it work even after rain and 5 days?

That is probably not gonna work after that long. Definetly helps the first 48 hours.
Any word on recovery???