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When you have taken the shot and it's time to track, usually night time for me, how do you mark your trail and what lights do you use?
I find hunting with other outfits and in other countries, everyone teaches me something new. In Argentina, they were scared to track after dark, but during the day, they would pull a chunk of long grass and hang it in a tree on the trail.
In Africa, a group of bushmen with a leader, would sing and skip along while on the trail, but when they lost blood, would spread out until blood was located again and the lead man would continue with the others behind skipping and singing. Very cool to witness. They totally made me look like a novice.
My way is I either mark last blood with sticks making an X or in the tree, I put a day orange hanky so I can look back to where I had been and get a line. I use a million candle power spotlight carried in a tool pouch and attached to a 12V feeder battery. If I''m tracking over 2 hours, I can go rob another battery from a feeder. If I don't have sticks, I pile rocks and I only step on the left side of the blood trail.
I find hunting with other outfits and in other countries, everyone teaches me something new. In Argentina, they were scared to track after dark, but during the day, they would pull a chunk of long grass and hang it in a tree on the trail.
In Africa, a group of bushmen with a leader, would sing and skip along while on the trail, but when they lost blood, would spread out until blood was located again and the lead man would continue with the others behind skipping and singing. Very cool to witness. They totally made me look like a novice.
My way is I either mark last blood with sticks making an X or in the tree, I put a day orange hanky so I can look back to where I had been and get a line. I use a million candle power spotlight carried in a tool pouch and attached to a 12V feeder battery. If I''m tracking over 2 hours, I can go rob another battery from a feeder. If I don't have sticks, I pile rocks and I only step on the left side of the blood trail.