Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced hunters slip into habits that cost them time, sign, and sometimes the animal altogether.

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For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

WALHONDING - If you would ask the average person to envision the perfect dog to track deer, Jack would not come to mind. But when it comes to results, Jack is about as good as it gets. Jack is a Jack ...

There is perhaps nothing more frustrating, angering and morale-sapping for a deer hunter than losing a wounded deer. Every hunter worth their salt — archery or firearm — makes every effort to place ...

Master Maine Guide Randy Flannery runs Wilderness Escape Outfitters in Danforth, ME, where he leads clients on hunts for whatever is in season, from moose and bears to grouse and hares. But what ...

Arkansas deer hunters checked 214,022 deer in the 2020-21 season, and trackers in the Arkansas Blood Trailing Network found 856 of them. While that's a significant increase over the 509 deer recovered ...

Deer hunters in Louisiana will see a few looser restrictions on tracking mortally wounded deer when the season opens this fall thanks to a new act signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry. Act No. 272, ...

If you have been using your four-legged friend to track deer in past years, you have been breaking Pennsylvania law. But not anymore. Gov. Tom Wolf earlier this year signed into law a bill that will ...