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Hunting Tips | Tracking

Best spot to shoot a deer

The best place to shoot a deer is in the chest area. Find the best aiming point on a deer by picking a spot one third to halfway up the side of the deer and right behind the front shoulder. The chest area holds major vital organs and veins and arteries. The chest area is one of the easier shoots to make, because it is one of the largest areas of the deer. The chest shot will damage very little meat and will result in a quick and humane kill of the deer.

Easy Blood Locater

Loose your blood trail? Try this nifty idea. Take a squirt bottle and fill it with ordinary hydrogen peroxide. Mist the area when you loose the blood trail. If the hydorgen peroxide bubbles up white, then you know you have located blood. It will bubble up similar to the way it bubbles up when you use it on a cut or scrape. Try it out the next your following a blood trail.

Finding blood in the dark

This works well when you shoot a deer late in the day and you need to give it time to lie down. Go back to where you shot the deer with a Coleman lantern, cover the glass on one side with tin foil. When you are looking for blood you can hold the lantern up to your eyes without blinding yourself. This also makes the wet blood look almost fluorescent.

Finding shed antlers

While looking for the sheds of the bucks you have been hunting but still haven't had any luck. Try walking along fence lines, because when bucks jump across fences they sometimes jar their antlers loose. Just the other day I found a shed walking along a fence line (3/26/02). Also try looking for sheds along well traveled deer trails, bedding areas and also feeding and watering areas.

Flagging a trail

If you flag your trails with surveyor's tape make sure that you return and remove it from the woods. There's getting to be a lot of surveyor's tape hanging in the woods. Another method is to use a few sheets of toilet paper. It shows up pretty well and if you can't get back to pick it up, it will be gone after a few days of rain.