yes,this is a blood tracking dog I am talking about. One advantage he has over our hog dogs, is that when we are called out to track, we are normally looking for a hog/deer that is already dead, or wounded enough to bed up, or only hit superficially so we're not gonna find him anyway. on almost all of the tracks we take, I am able to tell the age of the trail just by asking the hunter who took the shot. On the 23 hour old one, It was shot the evening before and I just couldn't make it until the following evening. The track was in a well shaded area, there had been a little dew the night before, and there had been no wind to blow the trail away. It was late afternoon when we took the track, which is my favorite time, it just seems like the dog has a better time of it then. It was also a pretty short trail. started with blood there but it petered out which is why we got called in the first place. There are plenty of blood trail dogs that could take a 24 hr old trail almost anywhere, given the right conditions.
for example :
http://www.texastrackers.com/stories/Hunter's%20164%20buck.htm I guess the two don't compare as well as I'd hoped. I was just trying to agree with matt, with regard to how conditions can change things.
