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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5502587" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Much of the time, it may matter little, whether you quickly pursue or wait, to track a deer. Heck, often we see them fall, and there really is no "tracking".</p><p></p><p>My thinking is that if you wait at least 30 minutes routinely, you run much less risk of jumping the deer before it has died, and in jumping a dying deer, there is where you increase your risk most of not finding it.</p><p></p><p>If I know I gut shot the deer, or even think a good chance of that, I'm waiting much longer before even going to the spot where the deer stood when shot. Once at that spot, I may decide to wait many hours, or very slowly track, depending on the totality of the circumstance.</p><p></p><p>And as others point out, jumping a deer and having it suddenly run over 200 yds before it collapses again, often means the deer goes onto some adjoining property where there then becomes all kinds of other issues.</p><p></p><p>A few years ago, a good friend gut shot a deer, but I didn't know where he hit it, other than he had shot at it, and he thought he hit it. We waited 3 hours before starting to track. Jumped it only 125 yards from where he had shot it. We waited a couple more hours to resume tracking. Found out it ran over 300 yds before lying down again. Found that out by jumping it. On that buck's 2nd jumping, it ran over 500 yds! We found it, dead, right before dark, 875 yds from where shot early that morning.</p><p></p><p>I really believe with the above gut-shot deer, if we had waited 6 hours before tracking, we likely would have just found it dead, 125 yds from where shot, and would have been an easy drag. As it turned out, he died 875 yards away, at the bottom of a very steep ravine in a 4-yr-old clear-cut. And I've had similar experiences to this several times over the years by starting to track too soon. Not sure I've ever lost a deer by waiting a while before starting to track, but I have certainly failed to find some I began tracking too soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5502587, member: 1409"] Much of the time, it may matter little, whether you quickly pursue or wait, to track a deer. Heck, often we see them fall, and there really is no "tracking". My thinking is that if you wait at least 30 minutes routinely, you run much less risk of jumping the deer before it has died, and in jumping a dying deer, there is where you increase your risk most of not finding it. If I know I gut shot the deer, or even think a good chance of that, I'm waiting much longer before even going to the spot where the deer stood when shot. Once at that spot, I may decide to wait many hours, or very slowly track, depending on the totality of the circumstance. And as others point out, jumping a deer and having it suddenly run over 200 yds before it collapses again, often means the deer goes onto some adjoining property where there then becomes all kinds of other issues. A few years ago, a good friend gut shot a deer, but I didn't know where he hit it, other than he had shot at it, and he thought he hit it. We waited 3 hours before starting to track. Jumped it only 125 yards from where he had shot it. We waited a couple more hours to resume tracking. Found out it ran over 300 yds before lying down again. Found that out by jumping it. On that buck's 2nd jumping, it ran over 500 yds! We found it, dead, right before dark, 875 yds from where shot early that morning. I really believe with the above gut-shot deer, if we had waited 6 hours before tracking, we likely would have just found it dead, 125 yds from where shot, and would have been an easy drag. As it turned out, he died 875 yards away, at the bottom of a very steep ravine in a 4-yr-old clear-cut. And I've had similar experiences to this several times over the years by starting to track too soon. Not sure I've ever lost a deer by waiting a while before starting to track, but I have certainly failed to find some I began tracking too soon. [/QUOTE]
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