How to Follow a Blood Trail After Dark
Bowhunt whitetails long enough and you’ll find yourself in a situation where you have to try and follow a blood trail after dark. After all, many good bucks do not make an appearance until it is almost too dark to see your sight pins. When you shoot them and they run off, you have to go find them. And while bloodtrailing is more art than science and each situation is unique unto itself, here are some rules that will help you quickly recover your deer.
How to Train Your Dog to Blood-Trail Deer
There are breeds that specialize in just about every task, but almost any dog can learn to blood-trail wounded game.
Blood Trail Basics
Nicely done! All your planning came to fruition, and you just shot a deer. If it didn’t drop within sight, though, the high-fiving may be premature. What you do next will determine whether you go home with fresh venison or just a sob story. Never fear, though—Bryce Towsley is offering a few tips to help ensure you recover your prey.
10 Tips for Tracking an Animal’s Blood Trail
These 10 tips will help you recover game while keeping you and your companions safe.
SureFire P2X Fury Flashlight
Providing 500 lumens of bright white light, the P2X Fury from SureFire will help you follow a sparse blood trail in the pitch dark.
Bowhunting: Follow Up or Wait?
There are few things worse than mortally wounding an animal and failing to find it, and sometimes no amount of preparation can guard against the proverbial “stuff” that happens.
Bowhunting: How Long to Wait Before Tracking a Deer
You’ve loosed an arrow, and the buck ran off. Trail him now or wait? Here are some clues to help you make the right call.
Skills Check: Shot Placement for Bowhunters
Contributor Mike Roux draws on a lifetime of personal and professional experience to consider the question: where should bowhunters really be aiming?
Video: Thieving Bear Steals Hunter's Deer
When a bear decides the buck you just shot is his, do you argue? A hunter from Michigan had to make that decision.
Record Elk Shot in Minnesota
Minnesota hunter Lacey Lupien has officially broken a state record, taking the second-largest bull elk ever shot in the state.
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