Personally i hope i don't have to track one at all - but when the situation arises, I like to track the deer myself - that's part of the whole experience for me...just as much as any of the rest of the things that you do to hunt. I have no problems calling a dog if needed but the tracker aint gone be happy with me when he gets there because i can assure you that i have done everything i possibly could to recover the animal myself before i call a dog in. (that's when you would see the obligatory posts on here about not screwing up the area if your going to call a tracker )