Triple R Tracking

02/04/2026

I was surprised this morning with this photo caption from one of our IDTN members . I really like it so I thought I would post it . Thanks Joe

02/04/2026

A short video of Red-ee doing a little training for the come command and a beep . The weather had finally turned s little more milder . We are suppose to be getting in to the 40’s next week . With a little luck will get s practice track laid for her,

02/03/2026

Getting ready for Ruff’s 13th birthday party tomorrow. What a great pup she has been, not only a great tracking dog, but a great friend and companion
“Happy Birthday Ruffy”

01/18/2026

We were on our morning walk trying to stay out of the frigid air , the last day of deer season . When I found our first arrow head of the year, it appears Red-ee found it and is showing me . Oh how I wish I could teach her to do that , I had already picked it up, and set it back down for a photo , she was just checking it out . The point was broken , probably from farm equipment, most artifacts found in farm fields have damage . To most people just a rock, but to me a prize and a form of hunting.

01/18/2026

Triple R. went one for two this morning . My new pup Red-ee at 10 months old now got to show me some of her developed tracking skills with the recovery of this nice late season buck . The buck was shot yesterday evening with a shotgun slug by a buddy of my grandson Kash . After the shot. It ran out in a cut bean field then stopped hunched up for a long time. Before moving really slow and exiting the field. Into a timber. His buddy took a short video. Of the buck just standing there . Kash advised his buddy he thought it was a liver shot and said it would be best to wait til morning to go after him not wanting to risk jumping him up and leaving the property, and take a chance on coyote damage. I agreed with Kash and told him I would meet him early in the morning with the dogs. I decided to let Kash run Red-ee on the track . It was 14 degrees with a brisk wind making it a little chilly , so I put a coat, that has a built in harness on her for warmth . So we started Red-ee in the general area of where the hunter thought he was when shot , and let her do a search . It wasn’t long before she locked on to the scent she liked and showed us one drop of blood , the only one on the entire track . She worked her way across the field like an old pro finding the buck at 200+ yards in its first bed .
The coyotes had found it sometime through the night and did sonificant damage to it. I advised the guys to be careful with its antlers , this time of year they can fall off at any time, while we moved it a short distance to get pictures. After all the pictures were taken , the hunter lifted the head for one last look and one antler fell off. The coyotes got the meat and the hunter got a nice trophy , and Red-ee got a “that a boy “ for a nice job .
Our second track of the day was a leg shoulder hit shot on a doe last night . They jumped it a hour after the shot . It ran into a wooded subdivision with really nice houses . So that’s when they called me , I told them I would come in the morning after the first track. I ran Ruff on this one and it turned out a no recovering. We were tracking across peoples yards. Where we could get permission people let there dogs out when we were tracking , it turned into a hassle. So we finally called it . Tracks have been slow so I was glad to get the calls . It all ends tomorrow and we expect very frigid conditions so there probably won’t be many calls if any . I will post Red-ee’s track when I have. More time.

01/11/2026

The old man has never been short on wind until today 🤣

01/11/2026

Today was a very special day for me , I was treated with a surprise birthday party . This blew me away , I was lured away from home to help a friend get a bandsaw out of his basement . When I got back home , everything seemed normal , little did I know, down my basement there was a whole bunch of wonderful friends from the Illinois Deer Trackers Network waiting to wish me Happy Birthday . I was so surprised, I didn’t know whether to cry or smile. Some came from other states and others from miles away, I had a great time , our network’s ” Queen Bee “Marissa Rosentreter orchestrated this event , it truly caught me completely off guard,

THANK YOU Everyone

I ‘ll post a short video of me trying. To blow out. 75 candles with a few that wouldn’t go out 😂

01/09/2026

Today I did a track for a long time friend of mine and high school buddy of one of my sons . It was a high hit doe with the usual details that usually complicates the track and makes. It a tuff track to come up with a recovery . And that was the case with this track .
However the property the track was owned by a guy that I have known for a long time . He invited me in to look at a mount, that I had done back in 1994 for his good friend , who has since passed . So he fell heir to the mount . The two bucks were found locked together in a ditch after a CRP burn off. They brought them to me to see if I could mount them locked together . I remember it was quite a challenge because. I could never get them apart , so I had to alter the forms so they were on the same plaque and still locked together . This is what I had come up with , it’s the first time I had seen them in 32 ? years . Surprisingly they were well taken care of, and still in pretty good shape . Each track has its own little story ,and this one was no different.

01/06/2026

This is a picture of me and my partner Kash , kashing in on , a gift card from Texas Road House that we received as a tip for recovering this nice buck. The hunter was a friend of mine, whom surprised me with the card and some cash for Kash. Normally we don’t ask for anything but we do take tips if offered , a case of beer usually works for me . Kash on the other hand will take cash if offered . This worked out great we used it for a birthday dinner for me . We had a good time.

01/02/2026

01/02/2026

Got a call from one of my friends today , he was hunting the firearm CWD season. He knows I have a new pup Red-ee and I had told him earlier in the season if he was successful, had the time , to give me a call , and let the pup run a training track . Well today. He was able to shoot two does out in a winter wheat field and both deer ran close to 200 yards. In opposite directions before expiring. This was perfect, one being shot with a 450 Bushmaster and the other with a muzzleloader 50 cal.
Well I jumped at the chance, he was fairly close , I had the time so I took Red-ee and let her run the track on both of them . The 450 left a pretty good blood trail in a big loop and the other deer that was shot with the muzzle loader left no blood at all. Red-ee did very well it was a good practice exercise. One thing I was watching for, was aggression that some dogs show when they find the deer they are tracking. She has shown none , which is a good thing . Here are a few pictures of Red-ee and her prizes

01/01/2026

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