11/16/2025
Cheri was able to help Jay recover his buck today.
Jay shot this deer yesterday at 3pm. Jay and talked about the shot last night and he thought he may have hit the deer in the liver. I suggested we wait until today to track his buck since liver shot deer can still be a live for hours after the shot.
We decided to track his deer at noon today since his neighbors were hunting and we didn't want to mess up there hunt.
We tracked this deer about 3/4 of a mile with drops of blood every so often to a bed with very little blood in it. I mentioned to Jay that's not a good sign that a liver shot deer is not dead in that bed and that there was very little blood in the bed for the deer laying there all night.
We continued to track and about 200 yards later Cheri changed her tracking style to a live deer just up ahead of us. We went about another hundred yards when I looked in front of us and seen the buck's antlers sticking up behind a log about 10 yards in front of us. I pulled Cheri back as see was literally on the opposite side of the log the deer was hiding behind.
Once Cheri was out of the way, I told Jay, sneak up there and finish him off, which he did. The deer ended up being shot through the back leg and busted the leg bone. Idt the deer was going to get up no matter what we had done.
Congratulations to Jay on his Michigan firearm buck!
