linden michigan

Local track in my home town of Linden (Southern Genesee county) 

  Last day of the youth hunt my young client had this buck quartering away with his head down feeding while he was hiding in a ground blind and the crossbow on a shooting sticks. What should have been a clean ethical kill turned into any hunters nightmare! The shot hit high rear rump with minimal penetration. At the time they had no idea the shot wasn't great until they replayed the video and that's when they realized the bolt hit a tiny twig redirecting the bolt. They sat quietly in the blind for over an hour before sneaking out. The blind is located in a cattail marsh so they cleared a lane for access. After several hours the figured the buck is dead or non-lethal. Their wasn't any blood at the shot site and multiple runs to check and it took some searching to find the first drop of blood and after that the blood trail was extremely easy to follow. At some point they had blood crossing over there original path and things got very confusing. So much blood it actually made it difficult to learn how the buck doubled backed on himself. This family has used my services in the past so they knew their best chances was to call me. Well the got online and pulled up facebook and made the call. Unfortunately my number is no longer listed on this facebook page and the tracker that answered was booked up and gave them advice that they must be close to the deer because of the high volume of blood and to go look in the morning during daylight and never gave out my number knowing we both lived in the same town! 

The following morning they searched and still couldn't figure out where the buck was so once again they got online and eventually found my contact info. It's Monday and I'm at work, hunter is in school and the dad is at work so it's a family friend that's trying to track this deer and find my number. Well after some time my info was found an arrangements were made and I showed up with Sypris. The blood trail was very impressive and I could tell by the pattern that an artery was hit. Sypris took us in a big loop through the cattail marsh and ended up back at the shot site! The buck must have passed by when they were sitting quietly in the blind or when they were tracking he got pushed back by the blind. Then the buck used the mowed access lane to leave the marsh crossing their back yard and going through the neighbor's yards! We eventually found the buck dead on a brushy hillside. I promise you no one would have ever thought to look in this spot, the neighbor wasn't a hunter so they never would have looked on this hillside and this young hunters buck would never been recovered!!! Unfortunately my young hunter was in school so we couldn't get pictures together. This buck ran 600 yards shot in the femoral artery. I can't help hunters if they don't have my number! 

If you know hunters in Genesee, Livingston, Shiawasse,Oakland, Lapeer,Tuscola counties please share my info with them. These are my local counties and ones I need to build a relationship with. I will travel wherever I'm needed and I have great relationship with other trackers that will help cover me when I'm unavailable. This is why the Michigan deer tracking network was built to ensure hunters can easily find help!