A few weeks ago, one of our association’s members, Marc, was in Germany visiting with friends when he was asked to search for a roebuck that had been shot on the neighbouring hunting ground. The hunter explained that the animal had fled in response to the shot, but they couldn’t see any clear signs to indicate it had been hit.
It was already dark when the call came in, so Marc suspected that the buck had been shot at last light. Finding shot signs in deepening twilight is never easy but, unfortunately, that doesn’t stop many hunters from trying.
One of the reasons we often get called after dark is that the hunter, having made his shot in near darkness, is unsure afterwards of exactly
