Jaeger the Scent Computer A fascinating discussion with Damon Bungard about his tracking dog, Jaeger, and the way Jaeger follows the trail of a wounded animal.
“My personal theory is this and this is just from what I ve seen and what I know and it varies between the signature from a bullet wound versus an arrow. When a bullet hits a deer, you don t realize that there s a 30 yard cone of scent behind that shot. It’s a big impact scent. With a bow, not so much, it doesn’t have that blow out factor. Hunters, they re like, yeah, you know, he was standing about here and he went that way. And by the time they ve said he went that way, Jaeger’s already 30 yards down the trail and they re like, wow, he knows exactly where he went. He does. My personal theory, it varies by species. So Jaeger’s now recovered mule deer, pronghorn elk, boar and white tail. They all have different sitting signatures, but we ll just focus on white tail. The Whitetail have what s called the