no more lost deer while archery hunting!

[deerhunter_98520]

Back in the 80's there was a thing called a Spider Tracker (one of the tracking type things at the time).  It was a spool of very very very fine thread (about 600 yards I think) that actually fit inside the aluminum arrow right behind the broadhead insert.  The string then traveled up the shaft and exited a tiny drilled hole and attached to a piece of velcro.  Upon shooting, the velcro flap hooked onto another piece of velcro attached to the bow.

My first deer that I actually hit was recovered with the help of this.  The arrow stuck in the deer as it ran off.  The tracking line did break several times but it caught again on brush and left more each time.  There was no blood from my high lung hit and the string gave me a direction to go while looking for her.  I really didn't need it on this one as she ran out a finger of trees that stuck out into a huge alfalfa field.  Even shooting my slow bow way back then, it did not seem to effect arrow flight out to 25 yards, my max range then.  They also helped me find a few arrows in the woods....   

I have never used it, but I remember in the early 90's finding a long thin string (thinner than floss) in the woods during archery season. So someone must have connected in the area I was hunting. I never followed it to the end, but it went on for quite a ways.
Maybe they should bring this back in to popular use and stir the pot like the lighted knock controversy.

If someones gonna do this might as well make the string glow in the dark...no electronics 

[lokidog]

I have never used it, but I remember in the early 90's finding a long thin string (thinner than floss) in the woods during archery season. So someone must have connected in the area I was hunting. I never followed it to the end, but it went on for quite a ways.
Maybe they should bring this back in to popular use and stir the pot like the lighted knock controversy.

You may have found a survey striing from a DNR or FS stringbox.  They used them to measure out long runs and were very fine string.  I think they may still use them as I thought I saw soome near a guy up off Hwy 2 a couple weeks ago.  The string in the Spider Tracker was almost invisible, unless you were looking for it, like a spiderweb....