10/30/2025
A update to our tracking over the last week
This is the main reason we trained Cooper to track, to help find my own and my family’s deer!
I shot my buck last weekend, hit mid body, based off of the arrow, it showed liver blood. We let it lay overnight and cooper made the 350yd recovery and we found the buck in his first and only bed. This is why it is so important to let your deer lay and not to track so early!
My brother shot a brute of a buck the next day, his arrow also showed liver blood, but based on the bucks hard quartering away position on his shot we knew the arrow exited through the lungs, to be safe we still waited a few hours. Had a good blood trail, but cooper came along for insurance and he made quick work of a 150yd easy track.
We did track a low belly/gut shot buck earlier this week, the hunter wanted to go at 12 hours after the shot. We showed up, cooper jumped the buck within 150 yards and ended up getting tangled up with the buck who was very much still alive. I found him back at the truck covered in blood that luckily was not his and pretty spooked. We came back right after work the next day while it was still daylight and advanced the track another 1.5miles until we ran out of permission. This is why I always recommend we wait 24hrs on questionable shots. Very likely we would’ve recovered the deer in his first bed or if we did jump him he would’ve been much weaker and cooper would’ve been able to bay him instead of getting his butt kicked.
Looking forward to a good weekend of tracking!
