Floppy Ears Deer Tracking

Had a great time today testing Declan’s dog Honey with Marissa Rosentreter. Joshua Gatlin Gunn tagged along to watch. Honey crushed this UBT 1 test with zero call backs at 5 months old! She’s an easy dog to read and she knows when she’s off the line. She would even stop and indicate the blood she found. Now if we could just train Declan to go look at what she’s trying to show him 🤣🤣. Together they will put a lot of deer on the tailgate. Thanks again for allowing me the opportunity to watch Honey work.

We got a call from Dixie’s buddy Will. We have tracked for him and his friends in the past. Said he shot a buck early this morning. The deer was 33 yards quartered away. He thought the shot felt great but lost blood around 100ish yards and wanted to know if we could help. I was at work and tried to get him hooked with Tom Monehan but he already had a full day scheduled. I said what about the Josh’s, and he said they were tracking too. We didn’t have a busy day at work today and I had kids to take trick or treating at dark. So I went and asked my boss if I could leave and thankfully he said yes.

I took both dogs with me and I started whiskers at the hit site. She went down the blood trail that Will had marked extremely well with toilet paper. When we got to last blood we got into some pretty thick stuff and whiskers refused to go any further. I went back to the truck and got Dixie. She made a big loop out and got into a scent pool (I didn’t catch it the first time). I went back to last blood and restarted her. She made a few big loops in some crp and then back into the thick thorny, briars. Once we made it out of that mess I waited for Will to catch up but said he was going to work around the wall of thorn’s. I said I was going to let Dixie keep going a few more steps and Dixie threw her head straight up and knew it was just a matter of time before we laid eyes on this deer. With Dixie’s nose straight in the air we walked another 100 yards straight to the deer. Congratulations Will on a great buck and thank you again for the opportunity and trusting us to find your deer.

Tonight we went to what we thought was going to be a training track for Whiskers, but it turned in to the real deal pretty quick. The shot ended up being further back than suspected. The arrow entered behind the last rib and exited low in the belly close to the rear legs. We ended up jumping this deer and seen it bed back down very quickly. We approached her one last time and that was all the gas she had left in her tank. Thank you again Mr. David for the opportunity.
We greatly appreciate it.