Katia Rothhaar and her tracking dog, Oskar, located this 171-inch Indiana buck after the hunter lost the trail. There was no discernable blood within 100 yards of the dead deer. (Don Mulligan photo)
By Don Mulligan, OutdoorChannel.com
Having to track a wounded deer with a dog combines deer hunting’s worst-case scenario with man’s best friend. In some states it is illegal, in others it is legal but only done as a charitable favor between hunters, and in some places it is big business.
In every case, it is a sight to behold and often the only way some deer are ever recovered.
“The first thing you learn when you track as many deer as we do, is that all the old wives’ tales about what wounded deer do are nonsense,” said Ryan Rothhaar, Cloverdale, Indiana.
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