[Roger Raisch]

in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164587

By the way, lots of bear hunters use The Tracker unit, plus quite a few hog hunters too.  The environment both hunt in is usually a tangled mess, and the tracking line usually will slide through, leaving a good trail to follow.

[Roger Raisch]

in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164586

Gentlemen,

When marking blood trails…or lack thereof, and I’m searching, I use surveyor’s bright orange tape, even when following my line that has peeled out with the animal.  The two together gives me a good visual of the path the animal took.  I have found that deer usually follow a fairly straight path for a good distance before deviating, which I have proven by following my line from The Tracker unit.  I like the idea of shooting a blunt or field point to the place where the animal was standing at the time of the hit, but I’m pretty much a ground blind hunter now.  That’s about the only way to get a very close shot on turkeys, especially wary spring gobblers.  So, when using The Tracker, I just have to follow the tracking line. By the way, I prefer using the heaviest line (30# test).  It seldom breaks.  Here’s one incident of mine:  Hit a nice spring gobbler a little too far back, penetrating the liver.  The bird flushed, went straight up and over the top of 50′ high trees, leveled off, and pulled out about 1,000 feet of tracking line in about 15 seconds.  It took a while to locate the white line over the top of the trees, plus the white color blended in with the color of the sky that day.  After a bit I was able to see the line laying in the spring  tree leaves, and followed it to a very dead turkey laying in a narrow opening on the ground with its wings outstretched like it had simply glided to the ground and hadn’t move a muscle, which was exactly what had happened.  The arrow was deep in the bird with the line attached.  That bird bled out internally while flying away, with no blood trail to follow.  The same is generally true for a bird that runs away after a hit…little blood.  This is why I always use The Tracker for any quarry, plus if I miss, I can retrieve my arrows.  I have also noted with my hunting clients at my north central Missouri farm…that even a decent hit often doesn’t leave as much blood as I think it should.  If I had a better nose that would help me too, but sadly I need to be very close to a dead deer before I can smell it.

[Roger Raisch]

in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164571

Hey Richard,

Thanks for the welcome greeting!  I have found that every bit of knowledge, product, senses, woodsmanship often will blend together to help recover an animal that otherwise is not recoverable.  Nobody makes the perfect shot every time.  A friend of mine has a nose like a hound dog, and he has helped recover deer with that nose a few times for clients of mine.  I am located in North Central Missouri…the land of plenty of trophy deer and trophy gobblers.  I usually hunt on my own property, managed for trophies for over 25 years, and I do invite guests.  One of the best products I have ever used to recover any game is a product that my company manufacturers….it’s called “The Tracker”, which is basically a high quality string tracking device.  The thin, strong line attaches just behind the broadhead on the arrow shaft.  Depending on the line strength you chose, it contains either 1,700 feet or 800 feet of tracking line per spool of line.  It’s easy to recover the animal, or find your missed arrow, by following the tracking line.  It is available at TurkeyHuntingSecrets.com.  I never shoot at an animal without using this product…have used it successfully for many, many years.  It should be mandatory for all turkey hunters, because a turkey that doesn’t drop in its tracks after being hit with an arrow will almost never be able to be recovered….they don’t bleed much, and if they fly away, you have no chance to find them.

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