Blood tracking teckels and the deer they have recovered

I apologize but I am running behind. This is a very busy time for blood trackers so submissions are coming in fast. Thank you, thank, thank you! You are a big part of the success and impact this blog has had. We will start with some teckels out of our breeding, but then ...there is so much more!

Let's start with Joe Walters from Indiana who wrote about Doc's (Buster/Keena son) third recovery on October 30:

Joe Walter's Doc

 Hunter shot this buck between the shoulder blades with a mechanical broadhead. Doc took the track to a plowed strip, where he had problems. Finally got about 100 yards north, and  it went through a tree line into a weed field. We found blood in the field and Doc took the track out and across a road where I determined he had lost the track and hunter said a doe was with the buck. We went back to last blood and Doc tracked right to the buck which was still alive. Before hunter could go back to his truck for his bow, the buck took off again. When hunter got back, we tracked it back to plowed area where Doc had problems again. He finally found where it went into weed field and found it again, and hunter put two more arrows into it. All total, it was about 400 yards of good track. Joe and Doc

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Kevin Armstrong from  Bristol, New York shared his tracking news. His tracking dog Karma is a daughter of Billy and Gilda.

Kevin Armstrong and Karma

At last, a recovery! On the 11th try we recovered a deer. Eight of the 11 turned out to be unrecoverable muscle hit deer. One was a paunch hit that had obviously been chased by something. The dogs lost the trail completely when they dropped into a gully. It was like the deer just vanished off the planet. We were unable to reestablish the trail. One was an intestine hit deer that we followed an incredibly long way with at least six beds. I spent part of three days on this big buck and lost the trail after a cluster of bloody, hair filled beds from the second day. The track covered three sides of a mile long half mile wide rectangle. Even an extensive area search yielded nothing. Had I had John's number in my cell phone I would have called him from the field for advise. I'm still completely baffled.

This paunch shot buck did not leave a drop of visible blood. I was unable to take up the track until 23 hours after the hit. The hunter had bumped the buck off a bed in a dense thicket a couple hours after the hit. Karma alerted early on that the deer was in the thicket. I made her follow the trail anyway. She took us to a road, then doubled back into the thicket. With nothing to indicate we were on the right deer except an occasional large track I pulled her off and restarted her. This time she took the trail to the point where she had alerted the first time.

She looked at me, put her head to the ground and started off, I let her have her way and she took me directly to the dead deer. I had unknowingly pulled her off the first track 50 yards from reaching the deer. It was so thick we could not see the deer 50 yards ahead of us the first time around.

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It was good to hear from Lynn and Ann Pierce from Louisiana, who track with Rosette, a daughter of Joeri and Gilda:

As you can see in the picture Rosette had her first track this year. It was youth weekend in Mississippi and my nephew gut shot a 120 pound doe which ran  into the woods several hundred yards with very little blood on the trail and it was mostly guts.

Once Rosette picked up the small amount of blood she led us right to the doe. It was a good test for her as the trail was mostly guts and hardly no blood.

Rosette is doing great down here and loving camp life.. the kids and all the hunters love her and she is really well behaved inside and outside.. y'all did a great job picking her out for us.

Hopefully more pictures to come.

Rosette is owned by Lynn and Ann Pierce.