Saturday, August 11, 2018

Crab claw

Albion Mi.

Randy was hunting from a ground blind when crab claw a 140" 9 point made his way in to the food plot. The shot was 30+ yards and by the bucks reaction he was hit far back. Randy immediately called to discuss his options!! I suggested to let the buck lay over night at least 12 hours before trying to eye track him. Randy started tracking around noon the following day. He followed the blood trail about 500 yards and found two beds with blood in them. That's when he hit a dead in as the blood trail stopped   so it's time I bring in the legendary tracking hound Sypris. It was extremely windy that night and thankfully we were tracking in to the wind. Sypris tracked with a 20 yard wide zig zag formation (odd style for her) however she kept indicating blood and wound beds. Randy son inlaw was with me while tracking and he says we didn't follow blood this way!! The blood trail is over there suggesting we were going in the wrong direction!!  Well I always follow my dog and Sypris keeps  indicating blood and different wound beds.
 .40 of a mile we found Randy buck still warm and rigamortis hadn't set in yet. The track was 25 hours old. I think the other blood trail was from crab claw  rutting all night even tho he was wounded.   Always trust your dog!!!

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