#390 - Never Lose A Blood Trail Again! The Complete Guide To Blood Tracking and Shot Placement with Chris Creed
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
- Tracking starts the moment the arrow leaves the bow
- Small clues matter when blood sign is minimal
- Shot angles change how a blood trail behaves
- Slow, patient tracking prevents losing deer
- Rushing a wounded deer often ruins recovery
- Understanding anatomy guides better decisions
- Reading tracks and terrain reveals deer direction
- Confidence comes from repetition and experience
- Good tracking blends instinct with discipline
- Every recovery teaches something new
And So Much More!
If you're serious about whitetail hunting tactics, understanding mature buck behavior, and staying ahead of the curve, you don't want to miss this episode.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Tracking begins the second you release the arrow. From your stand, bow in hand, you release |
| 0:05.7 | Sierra. Tracking has started and you haven't gotten out of your stand yet. In this episode of the |
| 0:09.7 | White Tail podcast presented by Moldry, we are diving deep into the moments after the shot. |
| 0:14.9 | If you shoot a deer through both lungs, it will die and it should die pretty darn quick. Don't |
| 0:20.6 | concentrate on shooting an orange or a grapefruit |
| 0:23.7 | when you can shoot a basketball. Chris Creed has spent years as a GM for a broadhead company and has |
| 0:30.1 | taken great pride in his ability to track and recover White Tails and it starts with understanding |
| 0:35.4 | the anatomy of white tails and shot placement and |
| 0:38.6 | what to do next people blame broadheads all the time for everything if the broadhead didn't open |
| 0:43.6 | that's a failure point that's one thing but if the broadhead opened and your deer didn't die it's |
| 0:49.4 | not your broadhead's fault if you've ever been there heart pounding second guessing your shot |
| 0:54.1 | wondering what to do next. |
| 0:55.4 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:57.7 | Here we go. |
| 0:58.3 | But the guy that's listening that really cares about the recovery, he wants to know everything. |
| 1:03.2 | He's the guy that he's totally prepared, but he still needs to be the guy that doesn't release the arrow until the shot's right. |
| 1:10.8 | All right, Chris. How you doing? I'm excellent. How are you, Jake? I'm doing great. I've got to |
| 1:16.4 | know you over the years, and you are a wealth of knowledge on a lot of different things, but something |
| 1:21.1 | I really admire is your knowledge on deer tracking, deer anatomy, and just overall knowledge-based. So it's a pleasure |
| 1:30.5 | to have you on here. Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. And I don't know much else. |
| 1:37.9 | Don't ask me any sport questions while we're on here, okay? Perfect. So real quick, what, how did you get, so if, I guess, involved in the, |
| 1:47.5 | in the process of tracking and all those different things, like how did you kind of dip your |
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