someguy2800
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If you need big blood trails to track you aren't shooting them in the right place and you need to learn how to track. But stuff happens I guess.
I disagree with that. I hunt with my father in law and brother in law and nearly the whole property is thick tamarac and red willows with waist high slough grass. You typically need to be standing within 5 feet of the deer to find it. Finding a deer that ran even 100 yards often takes an hour or two, and with no blood trail sometimes more. That's no big deal to do once, we are well accustomed to it, but we typically take 10-12 deer a year between us and that gets to be real chore if you have to do it more than 2 or 3 times a season. Ever since I started using big bores I really don't have that problem compared to the 25, 27, 30 calibers we've used in the past.
This one my brother in law took a couple year ago is one of the rare ones that didn't immediately dive into the slough when he was shot. He was shot at about 100 yards through both lungs with a 150 grain 270. There was not one single drop of blood on the fresh snow. We tracked him about 200 yards through the woods by hood print, try to pick his tracks out from among about 30 other deer's tracks and the first spot of blood was 10 feet before he turned off the trail and layed down between two big fallen trees where we couldn't see him
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