muledeerarea33? Report post Posted August 22, 2019 I just walk around aimlessly until I eventually find the ez up that’s pimping free phones. Then I use that to call my homies to go look for it. Work boots stay clean that way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost85 Report post Posted August 22, 2019 You know the range of the animal and general area. Get in the vicinity of your downed animal and range your shooting nest. Follow the “lateral line” of that range. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
360 0r Better Report post Posted August 22, 2019 59 minutes ago, PRDATR said: Never knew it was so complicated and daunting. It’s not but you know some people jeez Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AzDiamondHeat Report post Posted August 22, 2019 1 hour ago, PRDATR said: Never knew it was so complicated and daunting. Nobody has stated it is complicated or daunting. I only asked as a point of conversation. Oh look, a conversation about a hunting topic! You're welcome. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost85 Report post Posted August 22, 2019 7 minutes ago, AzDiamondHeat said: Nobody has stated it is complicated or daunting. I only asked as a point of conversation. Oh look, a conversation about a hunting topic! You're welcome. Don’t worry about him. If you never kill anything you don’t have to worry about recovering it. Also, he has to get his 10 negative posts a day quota in. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hucker Report post Posted August 22, 2019 I take a picture from where I shot, when I am sure the animal is not gonna move anymore. I take an unzoomed pic, then a medium-range pic, and a zoomed pic (using binos, etc.). I make sure I take pics with an identifiable landmark in them. Next, I hang a piece of orange flagging (long and loose, so it flaps in the breeze) close to where I shot (hard sometimes). Then I try to hang another piece of flagging in line with where the animal is down, as best I can (in front or back...just make a mental note). Start hiking to where the animal is. Use the pics and flagging to vector myself in to the downed animal. Last, and certainly NOT least, go back and get the flagging when I am done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Explorer Report post Posted August 22, 2019 Never stop looking. The fist elk I killed dropped within 40 yards of when it got hit. 200 yard shot. My brother stayed at the shot location and we had a good old brotherly agument over walkie talkies while he guided me in. Still took 30 minutes. I have never had to do a long search solo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grey curse Report post Posted August 22, 2019 Good points for finding downed animals but even better for archery spot and stock. I have more issues relocating bedding game that I glassed up across canyons. Hopefully use some of these strategies this weekend 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
My Rights As An American Report post Posted August 22, 2019 Just drop everything in its tracks on every shot. Never missed yet. Not once. Just kidding. Combo of mental pictures of everything in the surrounding areas of where I shot from to where I shot to. Never really failed with that process in 30 years of big game hunting. Small circles until sign is found then lots of very slow searching without trampling your path. Always looking backward to see where an animal went forward. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigorange Report post Posted August 22, 2019 5 hours ago, grey curse said: Good points for finding downed animals but even better for archery spot and stock. I have more issues relocating bedding game that I glassed up across canyons. Hopefully use some of these strategies this weekend Yeah this is a really good point...that’s probably hardest for me figuring out where bedded buck is after hiking over closer to move in on a stalk. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SHOOTER Report post Posted August 22, 2019 20 hours ago, PRDATR said: Never knew it was so complicated and daunting. I've killed and helped kill a few deer in the wallow fire burn and everyone of them was hard to find even with the picture, rangefinding method. The grass is tall and all the fallen burnt trees look the same. The picture taking method and rangefinding help. As does leaving a buddy from where you shot from and have him vector you in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yotebuster Report post Posted August 22, 2019 54 minutes ago, SHOOTER said: I've killed and helped kill a few deer in the wallow fire burn and everyone of them was hard to find even with the picture, rangefinding method. The grass is tall and all the fallen burnt trees look the same. The picture taking method and rangfinding help. So does leaving a buddy from where you shot from and have him vector you in. When I saw this I thought it was SEEKER not SHOOTER. I left disappointed in the coherence of your post. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZAV8ER Report post Posted August 23, 2019 When the grass is up to your butt and when you get up a hillside couple hundred yards from shot it does end up taking some searching around. Last year a newbie in our group got confused after a shot and took a picture the wrong clump of mesquite. Luckily my son kept checking out every likely clump of trees and came up with his buck about 40 min latter. By the time we headed out it was pitch black, 2 miles back in, rough broken oak hills and country new to us as of that AM. Dead reckoning back to camp with about zero ability to reference anything in the dark was a bit of an adventure. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lancetkenyon Report post Posted August 23, 2019 Shoot them out in the wide open. Easy peasy. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZBIG10 Report post Posted August 24, 2019 First thing you have to do is just look at it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
