Thursday, October 4, 2012
Michigan blood tracking dogs
Madison shot this beautiful 8 point with a crossbow and the bolt was tipped with a 3 blade "Rage". She made an amazing 40 yard shot. The bolt hit exactly where she was aiming. She ended up hitting 1 lung and sliced the very bottom of the Liver. Bill and his good friend blood trailed the buck until 11pm that night. At times the blood trail looked very promising. They eventually hit a void in the blood trail and soon realized they need some help. I tracked for Bill last year so he already new how the whole tracking dog operation works. He decided not grid search and call in the hounds. I showed up 16 hours after the shot. We started at the shot site and off we went following Sypris. Sypris followed the blood trail with ease. We covered the distance the Bill previously tracked with in a few Minutes. We quickly got to last blood and at this point Bill and Madison stayed out until they could hear me call out blood. Well I went some distance until I visual could find any blood. I found some blood to confirm Sypris work however we were to far away for Bill to hear me. I never stop my hounds once they are locked on so we continued to track on with out Bill and Madison. A few hundred yards farther we found her first buck. I started screaming we found it, we found it. Bill was more than 300 yards away and could not hear me so I ran all the way back to inform them of the great news. This buck would have never been found with out the help of a tracking dog. The buck traveled .63 of a mile.
Michigan blood tracking dogs
October 2 I received a message on FaceBook. Darrell Casey of Ionia michigan (The owner of Shack Hunting Blinds) http://www.theshacksite.webs.com/ shot a dandy 9 point buck. With all of the EHD killings Darrell was very fortunate to see this mature Buck. While on stand Darrell had a few 11/2 year old bucks sparing around him. His blind was along a small stream on the edge of swamp grass and while the young bucks where trying to feel like tough guys they actually called in the crab claw 9. Darrell was able to watch him for 45 min and as the big 9 closed the distance and ran off the young bucks that's when Darrell made the 17 yard shot quartering too shot. The arrow tipped with a two blade rage zipped right through him. The buck went 70 yards and bedded up in a brush island in the swamp grass. Darrell waited 4 hours before tracking his buck. While approaching the area where he watched the buck bed down he noticed his buck was still alive and walked off into the marsh following a four wheeler path and at this point Darrell backed out. I showed up and starting at the shot site and right away I find gut matter to confirm that the quartering to shot must have exited out the paunch. Sypris locked on right away and followed the bucks every move. At first the blood trail was weak and as we approached the area the big 9 bedded I noticed a lot of liver in the wounded bed. Sypris tracked out of the thicket and onto the path and Darrell said this is where I seem him last. We found only a few drops of blood. While tracking in the direction the big 9 went Darrell and I were looking for blood to confirm Sypris work and neither of us could find any. As we were heading into the heart of the swamp Sypris took a 90 degree turn to the right leaving the safety of the swamp into a hardwood forest. Both of us did not see any blood transfer on the grass to confirm her work. Darrell was having doubts at this point. As Sypris and I work the woods Darrell hollers out "Do you think she is on it" I replied and said yes and there is your Buck!!!!!! Darrell quickly replies "I would have never found him in here because I thought he would have stayed in the swamp" " Rob your the man". Moments like this is why I track and in most cases we do not find our clients deer for whatever the many reason are however this is what I live and train for:). 
Monday, September 10, 2012
Blood tracking dogs
Michigan deer tracking dogs
Michigan blood tracking dogs
810-240-4891
Scott Krohn Testimony
The morning of Nov.11th. a large 8pt. buck that I had been hunting for was rubbing a tree in thick cover 40 yards away.As the beautiful buck headed in my direction I mentally prepared for the moment of truth. As the buck entered the shooting lane I drew back, and as he cleared I bleated and he stopped with his shoulder slightly back and I picked a spot and released. To my delight the arrow went exactly where I wanted it! What I didn't know was he was slightly quartering to me. I called my tracking partner and an hour later he showed up and picked up what I was certain to be a short blood trail.
200+ yards later,the blood trail ended, and I thought, this cant be happening to me. After several hours of frantic grid searching, my buddies and my wife went online and gave me Rob's phone number. Realizing the deer was dead but we had no idea where, I knew a tracking dog was the best solution to recover the buck.
Rob agreed to make the trip to Bad Axe. And when he and scout arrived at 5:15pm I thought to myself, how can a dog that small track a deer? Little did I know what this dog was capable of! We proceeded to the middle of the blood trail and scout quickly picked up the trail. The blood was very scarce but scout followed it through 3 property lines which consisted of woods,CRP,and a small marsh! We had tracked about 700 yards. When we approached very thick woods, Scout picked up the pace and Rob said the deer would be close. Suddenly Scout jumped the deer getting within inches before got up! In order to better analyze the der, Rob asked me to keep up and see how far he goes.
To our amazement the buck back traced exactly back to where he had come from. After following 200 yards, we again jumped the buck and could see he was really hurting.At this point the decision was to go home and come back in the morning.
The next morning Scout easily picked back up on the trail and the buck continued almost the same path he had left on! After 250 yards we found several beds and Rob stated,"He will be close." Scout followed the trail like a champ and we got back up near the woods where the chase began. The deer made every effort to confuse the dog by circling and doing figure eight. At that point I started to get concerned again.
Scout however, expertly followed the buck and 100 yards later, we found the buck expired!Field dressing revealed a single lung/liver shot.
Without Scout, this deer would not have ever been found. I am so great full that Scout and Rob found my trophy. The 1,300+ yards the deer covered with no blood trails is a testament to the quality of this team. Rob was very professional and Scouts' desire to find the deer was relentless! I am so grateful that God brought Scout and Rob into my life. This was an adventure none of us will ever forget!
Scott 8 point green score 125 7/8. nets are for fishing
LET THEM GO! SO THEY CAN GROW!
Q.D.M.A.
Michigan blood tracking dogs
810-240-4891
Scott Krohn Testimony
The morning of Nov.11th. a large 8pt. buck that I had been hunting for was rubbing a tree in thick cover 40 yards away.As the beautiful buck headed in my direction I mentally prepared for the moment of truth. As the buck entered the shooting lane I drew back, and as he cleared I bleated and he stopped with his shoulder slightly back and I picked a spot and released. To my delight the arrow went exactly where I wanted it! What I didn't know was he was slightly quartering to me. I called my tracking partner and an hour later he showed up and picked up what I was certain to be a short blood trail.
200+ yards later,the blood trail ended, and I thought, this cant be happening to me. After several hours of frantic grid searching, my buddies and my wife went online and gave me Rob's phone number. Realizing the deer was dead but we had no idea where, I knew a tracking dog was the best solution to recover the buck.
Rob agreed to make the trip to Bad Axe. And when he and scout arrived at 5:15pm I thought to myself, how can a dog that small track a deer? Little did I know what this dog was capable of! We proceeded to the middle of the blood trail and scout quickly picked up the trail. The blood was very scarce but scout followed it through 3 property lines which consisted of woods,CRP,and a small marsh! We had tracked about 700 yards. When we approached very thick woods, Scout picked up the pace and Rob said the deer would be close. Suddenly Scout jumped the deer getting within inches before got up! In order to better analyze the der, Rob asked me to keep up and see how far he goes.
To our amazement the buck back traced exactly back to where he had come from. After following 200 yards, we again jumped the buck and could see he was really hurting.At this point the decision was to go home and come back in the morning.
The next morning Scout easily picked back up on the trail and the buck continued almost the same path he had left on! After 250 yards we found several beds and Rob stated,"He will be close." Scout followed the trail like a champ and we got back up near the woods where the chase began. The deer made every effort to confuse the dog by circling and doing figure eight. At that point I started to get concerned again.
Scout however, expertly followed the buck and 100 yards later, we found the buck expired!Field dressing revealed a single lung/liver shot.
Without Scout, this deer would not have ever been found. I am so great full that Scout and Rob found my trophy. The 1,300+ yards the deer covered with no blood trails is a testament to the quality of this team. Rob was very professional and Scouts' desire to find the deer was relentless! I am so grateful that God brought Scout and Rob into my life. This was an adventure none of us will ever forget!
Scott 8 point green score 125 7/8. nets are for fishing
LET THEM GO! SO THEY CAN GROW!
Q.D.M.A.
Blood tracking dogs
Michigan blood tracking dogs
Eric P of South Lion shot this 145 inch 9 point (Jackson county) Devils Lake Buck during his evening hunt(11-12-09)he ended up hitting the buck way back in the paunch. The buck was angling forward at him but when Eric let the arrow go the buck turned for the worse making the angle almost straight on. Eric called me immediately after making the shot to inquire about my service. After our phone conversation we decided to let the buck lay overnight and I would help after work the next day. Eric showed up a little early to try to learn the direction the buck went. He only found two drops of blood within the first 150 yards. Scout started off slow getting distracted by a Raccoon and then by some does that ran past us. After I got him refocused Scout found Two chunks of fat and one more drop of blood. This buck went threw a large open woods and into a swamp witch Scout had to swim threw some water and find the line on the other side then he took us out of the swamp into a peninsula of woods. At this point we are about 2 hours into track and we did not see any more blood to confirm Scout was on the correct buck. He took us up and around a peninsula of woods and at this point I had real doubts that we where going to recovery this buck. Close to the end of the line I picked Scout up to call it quits and Scout wanted out of my arms real bad so i put him down and forty yards up in a thorn patch was Eric trophy. The total distance was about 1200 yards with only 3 drops of blood and the line was 26 hours old it took Scout 2 hours and 20 min. The main reason Scout was able to find this buck was Eric did not push the buck and he did not stomp the area with human scent. Hunters do not realise how much DAMAGE they can do by searching blindly ahead of the last blood. This was Scout farthest recovery and the oldest scent trail to date. Eric with out your help this track my have not been a successful one. Thank you Rob and Scout
Eric P of South Lion shot this 145 inch 9 point (Jackson county) Devils Lake Buck during his evening hunt(11-12-09)he ended up hitting the buck way back in the paunch. The buck was angling forward at him but when Eric let the arrow go the buck turned for the worse making the angle almost straight on. Eric called me immediately after making the shot to inquire about my service. After our phone conversation we decided to let the buck lay overnight and I would help after work the next day. Eric showed up a little early to try to learn the direction the buck went. He only found two drops of blood within the first 150 yards. Scout started off slow getting distracted by a Raccoon and then by some does that ran past us. After I got him refocused Scout found Two chunks of fat and one more drop of blood. This buck went threw a large open woods and into a swamp witch Scout had to swim threw some water and find the line on the other side then he took us out of the swamp into a peninsula of woods. At this point we are about 2 hours into track and we did not see any more blood to confirm Scout was on the correct buck. He took us up and around a peninsula of woods and at this point I had real doubts that we where going to recovery this buck. Close to the end of the line I picked Scout up to call it quits and Scout wanted out of my arms real bad so i put him down and forty yards up in a thorn patch was Eric trophy. The total distance was about 1200 yards with only 3 drops of blood and the line was 26 hours old it took Scout 2 hours and 20 min. The main reason Scout was able to find this buck was Eric did not push the buck and he did not stomp the area with human scent. Hunters do not realise how much DAMAGE they can do by searching blindly ahead of the last blood. This was Scout farthest recovery and the oldest scent trail to date. Eric with out your help this track my have not been a successful one. Thank you Rob and Scout
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Michigan blood tracking dogs
Michigan Blood tracking dogs.
This training line was laid in a swamp marsh along the Shiawasee river. The line is 900 yards long and I used tracking shoes and 3oz of blood. I aged the line 35 hours and ran it at night time. Night time tracking brings on entire new distractions and obstacles. Such as the wildlife movment increases at night and for the handler it's much more difficult to see and read the dog. The first picture is the actual line I laid and the second picture is Sypris actual line work where she went. The third photo is her at the finishline chewing on the deer hooves. Sypris is a European Dachshund from Qua-linea breeding program in N.C. Sian Kwa can be contacted at trueteckels@gmail.com and you can veiw her website at
www.true-teckels.com
This training line was laid in a swamp marsh along the Shiawasee river. The line is 900 yards long and I used tracking shoes and 3oz of blood. I aged the line 35 hours and ran it at night time. Night time tracking brings on entire new distractions and obstacles. Such as the wildlife movment increases at night and for the handler it's much more difficult to see and read the dog. The first picture is the actual line I laid and the second picture is Sypris actual line work where she went. The third photo is her at the finishline chewing on the deer hooves. Sypris is a European Dachshund from Qua-linea breeding program in N.C. Sian Kwa can be contacted at trueteckels@gmail.com and you can veiw her website at
www.true-teckels.com
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Blood tracking training
35+ hours old, 900 yards, 3oz of blood used. It took Sypris 35 min. to complete the track laid in swamp grass along a river. 
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