Another Find For Ohio Tracking Dog

It was Nov. 15th when I got a call from Mark of Xenia, OH. Mark had arrowed this buck the evening before we talked. During our conversation he told me that the shot was a little far back. After Mark took up the track to recover his buck he knew it didn't look good. He only found 2 spots of blood in the first 40 yards about the size of a half dollar. He then backed out and contacted Ohio Tracking Hounds. When we showed up to help Mark out it was 32 hours after the shot. When we arrived at the hit site he showed me exactly where he was and where the buck was when he took the shot. From the little blood and the color of it I was thinking it was liver hit. I put Buddy down at the hit site and told him to find him. Find the deer the buddy and he was off on the track. Now we are tracking in a urban setting. The area was a 30 acre over grown field full of saplings and tall grass surrounded by small patches of thick wood lots. As we are working along the track I can tell that Buddy has this deer locked in his nose. After doing several checks and working our way through the thick grass and saplings we end up entering the edge of a thick wood lot. Now up to this point we have not seen a single drop of blood. As we enter the woods there it is, a single drop of blood the size of a pencil eraser. I told Mark we got blood. I could tell he had his doubts at first but when he saw that drop of blood Buddy became his best friend and he was full of excitement. We continued on for about another 300 yards with no sign of blood. Buddy took us to a very busy residential street and wanted to cross. At this time it was about 11:30 pm and we didn't have permission to cross the road and enter the next wood lot.  Mark and I talked about the situation and decided it was best if we wait till morning so he could gain access of the property. I told Mark to get permission and to check the other side of road from where we where. I knew that buck was over there. I said if you get in there in the morning and don't find him call me and we will get back on him. Well Mark got permission the next day and his buck was 75 yards from the road where we stopped. The track was about 600 yards and we only found 3 drops of blood total. But Mark did everything right. He knew the shot was a little far back and he backed out, By doing this he didn't push the deer and made our job easy.