THE ESSENTIAL ART OF TRACKING

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January/February 1988
By Bruce Woods 
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If you conscientiously perform every task described so far, you'll be dressing out meat at least nine times out of 10. However, if this effort still doesn't end your hunt, go back to the last sign and, walking in gradually increasing circles, cover the area, working slowly and keeping alert to your surroundings, until you either find the animal, locate a fresh blood trail or run out of daylight. And if the latter happens without your finding your trophy (which is unlikely), come back the following day to pick up any trail markers you've left and to give scavengers a chance to lead you to the kill.

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Careful, conscientious, stubborn tracking will recover a badly wounded animal almost every time and will usually allow you to bring in game that was hit but would have otherwise survived. More than that, it fulfills the contract you signed with the pulling of the trigger, and can replace the horror of a flubbed shot with the satisfaction of bringing in game that a less-committed hunter would have abandoned to suffering and a wasted death.

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