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Article: When recovery hopes fade, tracking dogs save the day.(THE NOSE KNOWS)
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- Petersen's Bowhunting
- Article date:
- December 1, 2009
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In the fading light of the fall afternoon, a nice buck appeared, well within range of the archer in his treestand at Willow Point, part of Tara Wildlife near Vicksburg, Miss. The hunter drew his bow, I released the arrow and hit the buck, which vanished into the brush.
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"When the guides arrived at the hunter's stand, he told us what had happened, and I examined the arrow,'7 said Bobby Culbertson, Tara's head guide, "I could tell the buck had been gut-shot. We decided to leave the deer and not chase it overnight."
Culbertson and the hunter returned to the lodge, ate dinner and planned to locate the buck the next morning. ...