Today I got back today from my trip to Maryland, which turned out to be very successful. Both Sky von Moosbach-Zuzelek and Mielikki Raptor finished their field championships. Sky was also Best in Zuchtschau and Mielikki was Absolute Winner of the trial on Sunday. There is much to report, and I hope to be able to do it tomorrow.
Tonight I'd like to start catching up with all the blood tracking stories and reports. I'll start with the e-mail that came several days ago from Walt Dixon, a member of Deer Search and United Blood Trackers, who lives in Tully, NY. Recently Walt acquired a new puppy, Dachs, from Beth and Genti Shero. The pup is out of Mae and our Billy.
Walt writes: Last Wednesday I laid a 400 yard plus blood trail
with three 90 degree turns and let it age 8 hours. Dachs was able to follow it
to completion with a slight correction from me when we encountered very fresh
turkey scratchings all over a portion of trail. I was very
encouraged!
Today my friend Cy Weichert called about 11am after
shooting a doe and feeling he hit it a little too high. He waited a half hour
then followed a blood trail 40 yards before the melting snow dissolved the
visible blood so he got back in his tree and called me. Cy is co-founder of the
hunting weather website "ScoutLook" and a founding member of the website
"Whitetail Slam" with a corresponding TV show with Tom Miranda. Cy had a camera
man with him and continued to hunt for big bucks until I came to track with
Dachs about 11:30.
I thought if I tried Dachs and we couldn't find the
deer I would go back and get my seasoned dog Ari. Cy showed me the hit site and
arrow stuck on the ground as I started Dachs with his light tracking lead. Much
to my surprise the cameraman filming for an upcoming TV show decided to film
Dachs attempt to find the deer. Dachs showed good recognition of the trail,
licking some blood at the hit site, then continued through the thicket with an
occasional drop of visible blood. At the point the hunter had stopped tracking
Dachs turned on a trail to the right and the hunter told me he had tracks going
straight down the hill. I told him Dachs was interested in something and 30
yards down the trail he was following I saw a drop of blood. I hollered to the
hunter I had blood and after trailing a distance Dachs took a left into another
thicket where 50 yards in lay the deer!
The total track was maybe 250 yards long but the
hunter thought he had a high, maybe one lung hit. The insides of the deer showed
a cut on one lung, clipped part of the liver and through the paunch. Dachs had
his first recovery!!!
He was a little slow at the actual deer but looked
back at me and with encouragement moved in to lick the blood then began to tug
on the deer and pull out some hair. After a short while with a lot of
congratulating Dachs became more and more possessive of the deer and would growl
and move to block my hand from touching the deer. I'll work on that part with
him, but to tell you the truth, I was very happy with his dominance at the
deer!
What a day for Dachs, a three month old puppy with a
great tracking future! It's possible he'll be on the Whitetail Slam TV show in
the near future!
4 comments:
This is a great story. Congrats to Dachs !
Congratulations on your wins, Jolanta, and even better is the story of the young Billy/Mae pup finding its first deer. Success in several arenas!
Congrats on your successful field trial. As for Dachs and his Dad - WOOHOOO! OMG just 3 months old and a successful track AND a TV star. I think you need to be asking for an autograph before he gets too popular! :)
Wow , what a future he has. FInding his first deer so young, amazing!
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