I just put out a whole deer, less the head, to see if I can get any to come in. A friend shot a good buck a couple weeks ago and never found it. He told me how good the shot was and where the deer went down, but when he got across the creek it was gone. I told him it wasn't hit as good as he thought.
Well yesterday evening a buck came by and he shot it right, double lung, it went about 100 yards and stopped. Well panic set in and he shot it in the azz while standing there. Off it went again and again no luck finding him. So this morning he started looking for him and eventually found him with no blood trail even after the 7mm mag through the lungs.
We found where he hit him before and he was dying on his feet. Any where you drug the deer, there was a solid trail of hair and he smelled really really bad. The hair was coming off like it was a week old hide that had been laying out in the weather.
It was a shame because it was a big 9 point with lots of mass all the way out.
He kept the head for a euro mount and gave me the body for bait.
Shayne