Look forward to hearing from you. Call if you need us.




Thanks 3FF!

I really enjoy reading this thread! Congrats on another successful track, keep up the good work!

Thanks Deer Crossing!

congrats fellas, really enjoy the follow ups! Keep up the good work!

Good deal!

Good job Otis! and you too CNC

Thanks fellas!



Call just came in for tomorrow morning. The hunter reported that he shot a buck at 4:00 this afternoon that was quartered away from him at around 60 yards. He says he shot it with a 7mm-08 and feels like he hit back in the guts and didn’t get an exit wound. He’s found no blood or hair but says he feels confident that the deer was hit because it bucked up and looked hurt as it went off. The deer ran into a 3-4 year old cutover and he has nothing to go by to track it.

I would sure feel better about this one if he would have found something verifying the hit. Hopefully it’s exactly what he’s saying. We’ll find out tomorrow morning. To be continued……….

Good luck. Confident you will find him if he's hit. I am thinking the deer was at more of an angle than he thought. Let us know the shot placement and bullet type if you can.

Will do. The biggest question on this one is gonna be IF he really hit the deer. I feel pretty good about recovering it if he did hit it like he thinks.

Sitting here sippin on a little coffee while the truck warms up. There’s a nip in the air this morning. Feels like a good killin day out there for anyone hunting. Let’s go find a deer fellas.

Good luck CNC. This has become the first forum I check every morning when I arrive at work to keep updated. Its always a beautiful sight watching dogs work. Keep us posted on the track today.

Got him! Pics to come. Had another call just come in. Stories later.

Whoop-whoop!

Hootie Hoooo!.....We're 2 fer 2!!!

Now fer the rest of the story......


The first buck was definitely quartering hard away from the hunter. He actually hit it in the shoulder but due to the angle he just barely did catch good meat and the bullet exited the front of the chest cavity/lower neck. How it didn’t bleed I don’t know but we never did see any blood. It was shot with a Hornady ballistic tip but he didn't say what grain. The hunter had actually went in there last with his own lab to try to find it and I believe pushed the deer.

We found it between 700-800 yards out. It had actually ran through the thicket and came out to a paved country road. It appeared for a moment like it had crossed but we eventually determined that it had just ran parallel with the road for a moment and then looped back into the thicket. Otis did an outstanding on this one considering there had been another dog all over the area last night. It didn’t seem to faze him on this one. He’s also got a new little thing he’s doing when he finds the deer now. Instead of just staying with the deer like he was doing….now he’s running back to me all happy and excited with his tail wagging, like he’s trying to tell me he found it. It cracks me up.




The second one was a pretty simple find. It was for a club I had tracked for in the past. The hunter shot the deer in the front shoulder with the deer quartering hard to him. Not far from being a straight on shot. There was no exit wound and zero blood. The deer ran between 150-200 yards into a stand of really thick young pines and crashed. Without having any blood to go on….and the area being pretty thick….the hunter said that he would rather send the dog in and know we would find it versus sending in the search party looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.

awesome job. Keep up the good work. I bet you've made a bunch of hunters happy so far this year. Whats your success ratio so far on finds vs calls?