Dead On!
Deer Anatomy and Shot Placement for Bow and Gun Hunters.
Tracking Techniques for Wounded Whitetails.
by John Jeanneney

Published by Teckel Time in June 2010     teckeltime@born-to-track.com
112 pages, 32 b&w drawings and pictures, 5.5" x 8.5"
Copyright 2010 by John Jeanneney
Illustrations by Jolanta Jeanneney and Marilyn Wood
ISBN 978-0-9725089-3-3
Library of Congress 2010926948

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Dead On! is written for all deer hunters.  They need information useful for killing deer quickly, cleanly and humanely, and they need to know the best tactics for finding deer on their own if complications do arise.  The book questions many of the traditional assumptions about how to find wounded deer after the shot. John Jeanneney comes to the subject with a fresh perspective based upon his  1000 searches with bow and gun  hunters to find their deer. He used leashed tracking dogs to follow wounded deer far beyond the hunters’ points of loss, and this yielded more complete information on wounded deer behavior than has been presented by previous authors. Jeanneney presents this information in the form of clear, practical advice to hunters who do not have access to a tracking dog.
Read this book and you will know how to adjust your shooting and tracking methods to the realities of the situation. You will learn:
  • To choose the best shot placements under tough circumstances.
  • When to track immediately and when to wait.
  • Different tracking tactics for different wounds.
  • Ways to keep following when the blood trail ends.
  • Where wounded deer go beyond the hunter’s point of loss.
The author’s detailed discussion of shot placement is based on his knowledge of anatomy and his very practical experience with shots that failed to kill quickly and those that were not lethal at all.