Good for you brother hang in there! If I lived closer I would help ya out. I lost one once and found it about 12 days later. Something had found it after I shot it and ate and had it covered up. That’s why I couldn’t spot anything circling over it. And sometimes the vultures here don’t circle deer in cool months? The rack was ok and hooked to the skull and that’s how my cousin saw the horns sticking up out of the leaves. Don’t give up you will find him!
Oh my lord that thing is a beast!! I bet he is 200 pounds on the hoof!? That rack is crazy wide! Is that in cherokee county?
We've got coyotes here. They will probably find him before me and the buzzards. The only other time I couldn't find a deer immediately after shot was an OLD 8 point I shot on an extremely foggy afternoon. I heard him go down in field. Walked within 20 yards of him and never saw deer. Next morning fog stayed until 9AM. When it lifted I almost fell over the buck. Honestly the only thing left was his head and one front shoulder.
That’s good stuff. 😉Sticky - Need a Tracking Dog 2023: CONTACTS
This link will take you to the NCBTN Tracker map that is updated for 2023, this is the NC Blood Trailing Networks trackers map. We are a group of individuals that enjoy tracking and have come together to network and help hunters. Although we cannot cover the whole state, we are hoping we can...nchuntandfish.com
For future reference, here is a good link to tracking dogs, apologies if this has already been linked. There is a gentleman over on the nchuntandfish page by rhe name of bowhuntingrook who chronicles him and his dogs tracking jobs.
Go Mountaineers
I was going to mention that guy alsoSticky - Need a Tracking Dog 2023: CONTACTS
This link will take you to the NCBTN Tracker map that is updated for 2023, this is the NC Blood Trailing Networks trackers map. We are a group of individuals that enjoy tracking and have come together to network and help hunters. Although we cannot cover the whole state, we are hoping we can...
For future reference, here is a good link to tracking dogs, apologies if this has already been linked. There is a gentleman over on the nchuntandfish page by rhe name of bowhuntingrook who chronicles him and his dogs tracking jobs.
Go Mountaineers
No, someone else has the name there. I just recently started reading over there. I have yet to sign up. Interesting enough the bow hunter over there is also from Mitchell County.
Spent all this morning walking that same patch of woods. Had a downpour at 5AM that lasted about an hour. Went out around 8 in steady rain. Only deer I found was a doe that looked like she had been dead about two weeks. Got every neighbor on alert for some kind of sign. Heck my cousin in law rode around his entire fence line looking and I didn’t know it until noon.
might have been the local gorilla lol
Normally I get most of your references Chopper…
I’m loving this! That’s great stuff!😉
I’ve read this 10 times!…keeps getting funnier every time I read it!
Unless I’m reading the BTR records incorrectly…there’s only 3 over 200 in NC.
Kidd how do you see your buck?? Is there a website? Look for a monster from Randolph County in NC?
Go to Buckmasters BTR online. I just uploaded the pic over Christmas.
Hey man thanks for uploading us a picture of your deer 👍 what a awesome deer man
You know I let 2 bucks walk here at my house 4 years ago that were both 130’s(8 and 10) for “Next year” ..... well I never saw them again 😂
Thank you for doing what I couldn’t figure out how. I do appreciate it very muchThis it.
Daddy had it in back of his and made us ride around all day showing everybody in community. Got him at 8:06 in AM and cleaned him around 3PM. Temperature that morning was 18 degrees so meat was fine.
NC state record for a brown trout is over 24 lbs…..hard to believe. You know…you go into some places all throughout the mountains and see brown trout mounted on the wall…like general stores, convenience stores, outfitters…etc. I always thought…there ain’t no way…a fish that big is swimming around in them cricks and branches!😂
