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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Michigan blood tracking dogs

Madison shot this beautiful 8 point with a crossbow and the bolt was tipped with a 3 blade "Rage". She made an amazing 40 yard shot. The bolt hit exactly where she was aiming. She ended up hitting 1 lung and sliced the very bottom of the Liver. Bill and his good friend blood trailed the buck until 11pm that night. At times the blood trail looked very promising. They eventually hit a void in the blood trail and soon realized they need some help. I tracked for Bill last year so he already new how the whole tracking dog operation works. He decided not grid search and call in the hounds. I showed up 16 hours after the shot. We started at the shot site and off we went following Sypris. Sypris followed the blood trail with ease. We covered the distance the Bill previously tracked with in a few Minutes. We quickly got to last blood and at this point Bill and Madison stayed out until they could hear me call out blood. Well I went some distance until I visual could find any blood. I found some blood to confirm Sypris work however we were to far away for Bill to hear me. I never stop my hounds once they are locked on so we continued to track on with out Bill and Madison. A few hundred yards farther we found her first buck. I started screaming we found it, we found it. Bill was more than 300 yards away and could not hear me so I ran all the way back to inform them of the great news. This buck would have never been found with out the help of a tracking dog. The buck traveled .63 of a mile.
Queen Tracker
1,108 yards long and 15-16 hours old
Madison and Sypris and "there 8 point buck"

Michigan blood tracking dogs

Nick was hunting with his bonus Dad Brent Jansson of Byron/Bancroft area. They were hunting in a pop up blind on the edge of a cornfield. Nick says to his dad there is a buck coming(nick says it in a calm cool collective voice) Brent says that's a shooter so Nick raises his 20 gauge Ultra Slugger and drops the hammer on this 140 inch 11 pointer. The impact looked good and the buck reaction appeared this buck is on death run. So they waited patently in the blind until nightfall. Brent could not locate any considerable amount of blood so he started to second guess the shot placement on this Hoss Buck. Nick says I know where I hit him. I hit I'm perfect. So Brent tracked the buck to the edge of the woods and was only finding a few drops of blood. So at this point he decided to call a friend for some advice. He called Jason Ladd a well know hunter and great tracker and Jason advice was to simply call in a tracking dog. Jason witness the work of Rob tracking dogs last year when we found Don Henerys Buck. Jason tells Brent it maybe dead just inside the woods however it's not worth the risk of loosing it. I like to call it tracking insurance. Sypris picked up the hoof scent of this giant 4-5 year old buck and took us straight to him. The buck did not travel that far maybe 200-350 yards however the blood trail did not look promising. Nick ended up hitting the 1 lung,liver,guts. The scent trail was about 13 hours old. Great job Nick and you have one amazing Bonus father.
Another day in the office
190lbs dressed out

Michigan deer tracking dogs


Michaela Willett was hunting during the 2012 Michigan youth hunt with her farther Scott in the Byron/Bancroft area. They watched this Giant 11 point make its way across a soybean field. Michaela waited patiently until the buck gave her a slightly quartering to shot. She shot him with a 20 gauge Benelli shotgun. The buck took a few bounds and turn to look back at where the shot came from. He stood their for a very long time says Michaela. I took another shot at him however I think I missed him. They waited until night time to start tracking. Scott soon realized this is not going to be a very easy blood trail to follow. They Literally only found a couple drops of blood. At that point they decided to back out and wait until morning. Next morning Scott spent a few hours searching for blood and with no luck he decided to call in Rob Miller and his Trackn hounds to help recovery his daughters first Deer. Scott realized the importance of not grid searching and contaminating the area making it at times to difficult for a tracking dog to do there job. Scout started searching in the field and located the impact site. We found a small patch of white hair indicating a low hit or possible only grazing this trophy buck. Scout continued across the bean field into the swamp and at that point we started to find more blood. We located 3 wound beds and a short distance later we found the buck in chest high swamp grass. The track was not a very difficult one as far as challenging the dog however it was very difficult to man trail this trophy. The trail was about 14 hours old and the buck traveled around 200 yards. The buck was hit in one lung,liver,guts. Congrats Michaela Willett on your first deer and a buck of a lifetime. Also she is my first recovery for a young women.
Michaela Willett and Scott Willett and Scout
Michaela Willett first buck

Monday, September 24, 2012

Michigan blood tracking dogs

This is how hunting memories are made.  I spoke with the hunter sunday morning and he explained that he had shot a bear around 730 the previous evening, he believed it was a good hit.  However the blood trail was not very good.  We discussed all the options and he decided to go ahead and put the dog on the trail.  We arrived at the hunting site approximately 18 hours after the shot.  It was a little difficult at the beginning working out of the bait site, as this was a central hub where the bears were coming to.  once we worked out of there it was fairly easy for Cash to navigate the rest of the track.  We quickly worked though the dense cedars, through the thickets, crawling over and under logs, having to literally catch myself from being dragged over by Cash.  He was dead certain where this bear had gone.  The hunter had done everything right during his original search,  marking the sign he found,  which helped me to confirm that Cash was in fact on the line.  Low and behold we have a BEAR!!!!!!!  This was the hunters 1st bear harvest, this was Our first bear track.  This will be a story I keep with me for the rest of my life. The track was approximately 350 to 400 yards long, and through some very dense and difficult forest!!  The Hunter and his Buddy were two fantastic guys who refused to give up without exhausting all of their options, and in this case it paid off with hi fives and handshakes while standing over the lucky hunters harvest!

Congratulations to the Hunter on his 2012 Black Bear

Monday, September 17, 2012

Meet the Michigan Deer Track'n Hounds Trackers



Rob Miller (Linden) Mid & Southern Michigan
(810) 240-4891
 


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Mike Riepen (WhiteLake) South East Michigan and N.E. Lower Peninsula
(248)200-9805


Eric Ellis (Flint) mid-Michigan
(989)326-1066

Jim Mayer(eastern UP)
(906) 440-3516


Jeff Murphy (Lansing) Mid-Southern Michigan
(517) 449-2638
Chuck Collier (Hillman) N.E. Michigan
(989) 255-3825

Sunday, September 16, 2012

New Michigan Deer Track'n hounds tracking team.

Eric Ellis completed MDTH Level 1 Test. .25 mile track aged 12 hours and used 3oz blood diluted with 3oz of water and used tracking shoes. Eric & Hank absolutely nailed the track with no call backs. Hank got off track twice and with in a few minuets Hank figured out the connections. Congrats to the new michigan deer trackn team Eric and Hank. Contact info (989) 326-1066
Mock Track
Eric and Hanks tracking resuts


 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michigan-deer-trackn-hounds/242940005717193

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Tri-County Times News Paper


Check out the article in TC-Times www.tctimes.com about our local tracker Rob Miller and his two deer tracking dogs Scout & Sypris (Type in the search bar "tracking dogs").


Rob Miller, Scout & Sypris
810-240-4891
 Rob and his teams are fully prepared to help as many Michigan deer hunters as possible this upcoming deer season. Please go and like us on FaceBook also. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michigan-deer-trackn-hounds/242940005717193

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Coming down to the final off season Training sessions


(Tracker Mike Riepen 248-200-9805)

It is coming down to the final training sessions before the dogs hit the field for the 2012 hunting/tracking season and all of us have been working hard to make sure our dogs are on top of there game. As well each handler needs the training sessions so that we are on the top of our game as well. I got a really good reminder this weekend of the trackers golden rule TRUST THE DOG. This is not easy and it comes with a lot of responsiblity to the dog. The dog counts on the handler to read and understand the subtle signs that they give of during the track, the trust comes into play when the dog knows that they are on the line and is giving the handler all of the indications that they are on. Many times we as humans believe that we know better. Every year I hear the tales and advice that has been passed on for generations of what a wounded deer will do. Each and every track I seem to learn something else a wounded deer will always do. I do not believe that anyone could tell you what a wounded deer will do. I can however tell you what they will not "always do". A wounded deer will not always run to water, they will not always run a circle to find our what spooked them, they will not always take the easiest path, i could go on an on. In this weekends training session with my two dogs I faced several challenges. My newest dog Dusty, has shown tremendous promise in his training, however he has led a very concealed life from the beggining. He was born and raised in rescues with very little exposure to well.. Anything really, when we brought him home everything frightened him, the stairs, the t.v. phones ringing.. Everything.. I have worked very hard with him and normal everyday life has seemed to calm down for him. His tracking training has gone very well,, For the most part. He still has not had a ton of exposure to the wonders of the woods, and still seems to be frightened easily especially when he cannot see very well. I ran a night track which was approximately 800 yards long and aged 12 hours. It started in a field on the edge of a woodline, at the start he was off and moving as I expected, but as soon as the track went into the darkness of the woods he did not want anything to do with it. he kept circling back to walk out to the field. After much labor and encouragement we got going however the entire track was very difficult in that he kept getting side tracked by noises and shadows from my light. We did end up finishing the track however I had to work extra hard and continually had to bring him back to the right track. I still believe in this dog and will continue working with him throught the next year. *** I have decided to keep him out of the field this year except on deer for family and friends.***

My other seasoned dog "Cash" offered me the lesson. As I was setting up my GPS to run him on his training track I accidentally erased the track that I had laid from my gps. So i went into this track knowing only a few things, Where the start was, the direction I had started moving, i had one reference of a hunting blind i had walked past while laying , and one waypoint set at the end of the track. I went into this track basically knowing only what I would know in a real tracking situation. I had no choice but to read and trust my dog. He had a great run on the track, other than one location where he ran by a turn. He has some wonderful "tells" when he is off the track. An intense zig zag pattern, and continual large circling pattern. When I observed these tells for about fifteen minutes I knew i had to take him back, I checked my current track on the GPS and escorted him back to where he was running in a distinctive line, I let him begin his search pattern again, and off we went, about ten minutes later we tracked right by the blind i had remembered on off into the thickets we went. I did not recall walking through such thick brush, but Cash seemed to be sure, so I continued to follow him. Not 15 minutes later he found is reward. This track was approximately 1000 yards ( a little over a half mile) and aged 24 hours.

"The nose, KNOWS"..http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michigan-deer-trackn-hounds/242940005717193

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Deer tracking training

This training line was laid in a swamp marsh along the Shiawasee river. The line is 900 yards long and I used tracking shoes and 3oz of blood. I aged the line 35 hours and ran it at night time. Night time tracking brings on entire new distractions and obstacles. Such as the wildlife movment increases at night and for the handler it's much more difficult to see and read the dog. The first picture is the actual line I laid and the second picture is Sypris actual line work where she went. The third photo is her at the finishline chewing on the deer hooves. Sypris is a European Dachshund from Qua-linea breeding program in N.C.  Sian Kwa can be contacted at trueteckels@gmail.com and you can veiw her website at
www.true-teckels.com

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