Missouri Deer Tracking

This is probably the biggest buck that I'll ever recover. Several years ago I was contacted by a hunter in Kansas to track a buck that had been shot that morning with a .308... 300 miles across Missouri and into Kansas!

I arrived about an hour before dark, so I was quickly hurried to areas that the hunter thought the deer might have gone. When darkness fell, the hunter said that it looked like we weren't going to find it, to which I said, "Oh no, I just drove 300 miles, and I'm not leaving without finding this buck.

I started my dog at the hit site, and about 15 minites later I saw a lump on the ground at my feet. The brush was so thick that I could only see a patch of something that had hair. When we drug it into the open, it was still warm and limp. Jaws dropped, because it was the buck of a lifetime!

BUCK FEVER.

This buck was shot by a wife, who claimed she had shot her husband's target buck! Imagine her husband's shock, when, after a mile of tracking we revovered this 1.5 year old gut shot buck!

The wife doesn't need more target practice, she just got uncontrolable shakes, as adreniline, and a wild imagination took control. This hunter does not need more time on the range, or to quit hunting. To the contrary, she needs more time in the stand.

This is one reason why we track, and are not critical of the hunter.