Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Bought a blood tracking light and it does not work

I bought a tablet pack locally last year for $19.99 I believe.

Drop tablets in a spray bottle with water, mist in the direction the deer/bear went, and watch the blood glow. Neat stuff.


https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Blood-Finding-Revealing-Agent/dp/B005VR4JJ0

I hear an old Colman gas light works great.

A friend has a blood tracking wiener dog. She never misses.

Store it away with the cough silencer and the butt out tool and dispose of them at the next yard sale.

^^This!^^

$79.99 at this place. Kinda pricey to find one animal though I don't know how far or how many blood trails it would last.

https://www.arrowheadforensics.com/a-2534-bluestar-forensic-kit.html

Luminal. Heard of folks using it, but never met someone actually using it. How expensive, and it's single use, so how long does it stay active?

I had a gerber light that was supposed to show blood--it was a gift. I tried it once and it did nothing for me; flashlight was better. Good buddy is has a K9 for local pd but he's not supposed to use it to find my lost game...

Assuming there are enough blood drops for it to work on. Many deer will only leave a drop here and there. It would take gallons of the stuff sprayed all over the ground to find them. Any kind of spray is most useful for identifying SUSPECTED drops of blood, not for finding them.
I shot an elk last week with a lung shot a bit high. It didn't go anywhere but it didn't bleed out of either hole a bit. It walked about 5 yards in snow and went down leaving not a drop in the snow. If it had run a ways, there would be no blood trail to follow.

I had an uncle by marriage in the family that was half Indian, he taught me how to shoot a rifle , how to walk silent in the woods, and how to track game without any blood. I have found many deer that left no blood trail that I and others have shot. If you know what to look for it is easy and never fails. I tried teaching my older son but he never had the patience to learn.. I am now too old to do it anymore, teach that is. LOL

Agreed. Read my signature line.

Well, near as I can tell, you should have bought Rudolph, the keen nose Weasel dog (dachshund).... who would also dive under your covers in the morning when he wants you to get up , and chew on your toes. They work.


Trust me.... at least to the getting up part.

It glows for a good 4-6 hours.

Correct, suspected blood. It’s good to use after traditional tracking techniques have turned bleak, especially if tracking dogs are 2+ hours out from being available and you want to get to your deer before predators do.

Best blood trailing tool.... ( write this down)
Big hole in...Big hole out.

A Leupold Thermal Tracker works if the trail hasn't gone cold.
It will set you back a few bucks.

I was only asking for a friend, of course.

I shoot all of my animals only on the left side, with a big exit, that puts all of them down on the spot always in perfect dust-on-top-of-snow tracking conditions except when it is clean tracking mud on level ground, though of course I never need to track an animal.

Up in the Royal Group of peaks above the Palliser the other evening, the doggone masseuse in my heated deer blind would not quit massaging my hunting partner's neck and open the shooting window fast enough for the newbie hunter to shoot that whitetail on the left side like I told him to. A tracking device might come in handy for an amateur wannabe who does not know how to pose an animal correctly to shoot it where he wants.