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Professional tracking dog for wounded bear + deer, serving northern MN.
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Call/text 218-760-5671

UBT-III certified, on call 24/7

Promoting wildlife conservation and preventing waste of wounded game, one track at a time.

10/30/2026

Even the fork bucks are getting tougher this time of year... ⚔️

You take your shot at a broadside deer and watch the arrow land a touch back. The blood on the fletchings is a shoo-in for liver. The blood trail looks good for 40 yards... Then stops like a faucet. What now?

If you're our hunter Chris, you know exactly what to do - and who to call. Chris arrowed this nice little fork at last light and when he ran out of blood, he immediately sent me a text and we made a plan for first thing in the morning.

Ain't it a good thing that we did? This tough little son of a bush went almost 700 yards before dying in his first bed, and never bled a drop past where Chris stopped last night - it would seem that the deer's hide was stretched over the wound just so, and all the bleeding was internal once he slowed from a hurried trot to a walk.

Bonus points for hide and seek until the bitter end - this buck was tucked up underneath that deadfall behind us, and was barely visible as we came up on him. Chris says he'd never have found his deer without a qualified tracking dog, and I'm inclined to agree...

We are getting ready for the insanity of r***e season. Save our number if you are too. 218-760-5671

10/27/2026

Rain or shine, we're the gals to kick 'er through! 😤

This buck showed up to party last night, and left with a clean passthrough in the back of both lungs. This is the sort of wound I'd expect to kill a deer pretty quick in September... but in late October, these bucks are decidedly not interested in making a hunter's life easy, and this bruiser was no exception.

With no visible blood trail, and a worry that the hair at the hit site might have been white belly hair, our hunter made the wise decision to back out for the night and call for reinforcements.

13 rainy hours after the shot and about 400 yards later, Stern found this buck still warm and limber in his first bed. Wet weather overnight makes it difficult to know whether the buck had bled at all in that distance, but that doesn't make a difference for a professional tracking dog. (We love rain, and we don't need visible blood in order to track a deer.)

Congratulations to our hunter on a beautiful 11 pointer, and thanks for trusting us to find him.

We're happy to get our feet wet to track your deer. 218-760-5671

10/26/2026

Good tracking dogs make the job look like magic.

10/25/2026

Everybody buckle up, the new kid is on her way!

Very proud of six month old Galva, she tracked this neat little spike almost 500 yards and never missed a beat - from hit site to dead deer, ten minutes flat. (All that puppy practice is starting to pay off!) 💪

Last night, our hunter's arrow connected with this spike at a fairly steep quartering-to angle and exited the underside of the belly, with frank gut matter and a pretty impressive amount of white hair at the hit site. This was a case where the hunter almost certainly wouldn't have needed us if the deer had been given more time to die - but as these things happen, the deer was bumped from a bed the same night it was shot and wasn't bleeding after it got up again. Thankfully, it was still a quick find this morning for a trained tracking dog.

Congratulations to our hunter Matt, and thanks for trusting us to help!

We're the gals to help you find your deer, and it's getting to be that time of year... Call or text any time. 218-760-5671

10/23/2026

A fork buck can be a hell of a trophy, especially when the odds are stacked against the hunter recovering it.. This week's theme has been tough little bucks that just won't bleed!

It breaks my heart to hear hunters say "it's just a doe" or "it's just a spike" when deciding whether to call us for help. Stern will work her ass off for you, regardless of antler size.

Our mission is making sure that recoverable game doesn't go to waste - whether it's a trophy buck or a yearling doe. Please don't hesitate to call, even if you dont think you shot a wall hanger. If that deer is dead we'll usually find it in 30 minutes or less, and it's a lot of fun to see the dog work.

Special congratulations to our young friend Soren, who got his very first buck with a bow this week and stuck with us through thick and thin to find him!

We love what we do and we can track your deer too. 218-760-5671

10/19/2026

No blood, no problem. Get em, Stern. 🐾🐕‍🦺

10/18/2026

Stern helped this young buck find his FIRST EVER BUCK! 🥳

Noah may be new to hunting, but he tracked with us like an old pro this morning. After he shot his deer at last light, it behaved like nothing happened, and it wasn't clear whether (or where) his shot had connected.. Noah found a few spots of blood that petered out in

10/17/2026

There's nothin like helping a young kid find his biggest buck yet! 🤘

Nolan shot his buck yesterday evening and it wasn't long before he and Dad bumped it out of a bed, about 60 yards from the hit site. Knowing that there was rain in the forecast and realizing this buck was going to need some time, they decided to back out and call in the big guns for the morning. (We LOVE rain!)

It turned out to be a good thing they left this buck alone overnight. Deer have a few standard tricks up their sleeve when they know they're being followed, and Nolan's buck did the classic "J hook" - it went about 500 yards, looped back and bedded strategically to watch its backtrail. It died watching and waiting sometime early this morning.

Despite the crazy wind today, Stern had this buck's number, so Nolan had his deer in about 15 minutes flat. With zero visible blood after the rain, it's a safe bet that this would have been a buzzard feast without a qualified tracking dog.

Congratulations to this young rockstar on a big ol trophy 8, and thanks for trusting us to find it!

We're on call to help your kiddo too. 218-760-5671

10/14/2026

A good tracking dog can accomplish in 15 minutes what two days of grid searching can't.

Our hunter arrowed his deer at last light on Monday, and because he was worried about rain, rushed in after an hour despite suspicions of a liver shot. Then came a long drizzly night of grid searching with several people, a bumped deer, and no luck.

Tuesday, the hunter and his buddy started an OnX trackline (smart!) and resumed the search all afternoon, but came up empty handed again.

Wednesday, they called us in as a last hail Mary.

Fifteen minutes after getting out of the truck on Wednesday afternoon, Stern was swimming to this tall-tined 11 pointer.

He had tucked himself into a low beaver run at the edge of a pond, where he could watch his backtrail- about 900 yards total from the hit site to the last stop. The entrance was lung/liver with a low intestinal exit. The search party had walked about 50 yards uphill from him at one point out of sheer luck, but never saw him.

Surprisingly, no birds or yotes had gotten into him, so he was hard to find even for the scavengers - but not for Stern!

This track is an excellent example of what a professional tracking dog can do, and a reminder that we are pretty much always a safer bet than grid searching.

We're grateful that this hunter didn't give up.

Stern is so ready for youth season. Call in the big guns at 218-760-5671, we can save you a lot of headache.

10/14/2026

The weekend will be here before you know it... 🎯

If your kiddo's deer does a disappearing act, call 218-760-5671. Call as SOON as you think you need help - we book up fast.

We serve hunters within about 100 miles of Bemidji, MN. With six years of experience, hundreds of tracks under our belt, and one of the most highly certified dogs in the state of Minnesota, we are on call 24/7.

Professional, efficient, and always a safer bet than blindly grid searching. We can help you recover your kid's deer with a cool story to tell for years to come.

Not sure if we can help? Give me a shout any time. I'll send you back out if I don't think you need us.

Tell those kids to shoot straight, and save our number now in case you need it later!

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