Black Titan
Well-Known Member
Essential to me is a compass. On top of watching the deer reaction to being shot and where it runs. Once it is out of site...I listen intently to figure out if I hear it fall and thrash on the ground. When it does that, I take a compass heading for that direction. Once I go to track the deer....I do what most people do...go to where I shoot the deer and look for blood and track from there. However, if I completely lose the track I can always go back to my tree I shot the deer from.....check my compass heading and march through the woods on that heading without deviating. Just one more thing to be able to do if things go south.
I need to take a crash course on learning how to read a lensatic compass. I have one, but don't have a topo map of where I will be hunting nor do I really know how to use it.
BT