That is one "big ass deer". lol
No, that's a pretty buck, nice heavy horns. Very nice! Congratulations. I couldn't really tell from the video, but it didn't go very far.
I'll tell you this real fast, years ago I shot deer on "crop damage permits", the deer would be eating up someone's corn or soybeans. Same type of permit that the DNR issues for beaver damage and all.
Anyway, I was out one morning, I was watching a pasture between a corn field and the river. It's easy hunting. A deer came out of the river bottom, just walking across the pasture, it was a doe. It gave me time to get squared up on my sandbags and all. Most times I'd just yell: HEY. That'll usually get them to stop long enough for a shot.
So, I touched one off, I watched the impact. I was hunting with a small gun, my 22-250. It kind of pounded her back a little bit, knocked it sideways and it made a beeline for the river. I could see that it was running out of steam, just before it ran out of the pasture.
I visually marked the spot where I lost sight of the deer, but I'll tell you out in the pasture, there wasn't anything to mark. The pasture is all about the same. I had my beagle, Tina with me. So, I drove over on the other side of the pasture, about where I thought the deer was standing when I shot. I had the dog on a leash 12 or 15 feet long, and just walked out through the area. Tina picked up a little speck of blood, just on a blade of grass. From there, I could follow the blood trail.
With or without the dog, I knew where deer was. A deer can run a long way in 5 seconds. It was dead on it's feet. But it is good to go out and track game, by blood, scuffed up leaves and all.
One of these days, your tracking skills will come in handy.
But in Musher's situation, I would have taken one of his dogs. Don't want it running deer or anything, and I'd have kept it on a leash. There is just something about blood, dogs can find it.