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Kiltris · 2015-09-02 08:41:39

Yesterday morning I learned a valuable lesson in having a dog to track a wounded deer, or at least having access to a dog to do so. I had one of the best stalks of my life but it ended with me not being able to locate the deer. He fell behind a small tree with or so I thought but I had to take my eye off him to make my way…

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The benefits of a tracking dog...

02-09-2015 09:41AM

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Kiltris

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Yesterday morning I learned a valuable lesson in having a dog to track a wounded deer, or at least having access to a dog to do so. I had one of the best stalks of my life but it ended with me not being able to locate the deer. He fell behind a small tree with or so I thought but I had to take my eye off him to make my way up to where he was.

I had marked the spot but when I got there I just couldn't locate him, I didn't want to stray too much from where I thought he had dropped because in a situation like that I think it's easy to loose your direction.

As I had started to doubt myself and loose hope my friend phoned to know how I was getting on, I explained the story and luckily enough he was on his way home and wasn't too far away. He made his way up to me and brought his Vizla/German Pointer x. I pointed to where I thought he had been hit and the dog did his thing, he led us straight too him. He had ran about 100yards and was just out of my view from where I had been stood. A good end to a good stalk.

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