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Friday, November 30, 2012

Blood tracking dogs (Flint Michigan)

Tom was hunting near flint during the Michigan shotgun season. This buck came in to his bait pile during his evening hunt. The buck was walking when Tom took the shot and quickly after he pulled the trigger the buck was out of sight. Tom was hunting with his father also his name is Tom. They both walked over to the shot sight and could see a fist size of white hair on the ground. Tom and his dad new instantly what to do "call in the hounds" Earlier this year they knew of two other bucks that were never recovered and in fear of the same scenario they wanted tracking insurance. Tom got onto <Michigan deer trackn hounds web site and contacted Rob Miller and his hound Sypris. After our phone conversation we decided to give the buck 5 hours before starting tracking. Once we arrived at Tom Sr. house we talked about the laws of Myself being at state certified tracking and i called the track in to the RAP line and off we went. Tom was carrying his 12 gauge during night track just in case he was still alive. After i inspected the hair i could tell the white hair was actually center body hair (medium in lenght and brown tips and was not very coarse) I told Tom his buck was dead and he most likely did not need a tracking dog. 300-350 yards away was his buck (Liver/1 lung) Congrats Tom on a great Mid-Mi. buck.



Thursday, November 29, 2012

Michigan deer tracking dogs

This is a find that I am especially proud of. My son shot this deer on the first morning of the youth hunt. The shot was at first light and when he shot, the deer was quartering away more than I was comfortable with. The deer ran off with no sign of being hit. We went to where the deer had been standing when he was shot and thankfully, immediately confirmed blood. Because I was still concerned with the angle of the shot, we waited two hours and then went back to search with Hunter. This was my son’s first buck and it was nice knowing that we had a tracking dog to help with the recovery. It’s times like this that I’m happy that I have taken the time to train a tracking dog. Hunter picked up the trail immediately and followed it a relatively short distance to the deer. We would have found this deer without the use of a tracking dog but the dog is insurance and worth all the hours of training when you’re not sure of the shot.
Tracker Jeff Murphy.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Thanks Cash

Once again I was able to use my hound for my own deer.  While last year I really did not need him , I put him on my deer simply for an easy track for him.  This year however was different.  I decided I was going to pull an all day sit.  Early in the morning I saw a few doe's, unfortunately they saw me first.  A little later about noon or so I watched a little spike horn come through my clearing.  Than around 2 o'clock came the moment of truth,  I spotted a good sized doe making her way into my clearing, She walked in straight in line with a big pine tree that is in the middle of the clearing.  I patiently waited trying to get a view of which way she would turn.  Finally she poked around the right side of the tree, still facing straight at me.  Slowly she turned broadside and began to walk, I raised my Winchester model 94 that is inscribed with my fathers name,( he bought this firearm when he was 18 and passed it on to me),  I looked through the scope and picked my moment.  It was a gimmie shot, 45 yrds broadside, BANG!!!!  She kicked like a mule and took off around the brush, I heard her crashing through the thicket, than nothing.  I soaked in the moment, gave my thanks, and sent out my text messages to my hunting party.  I waited about an hour and got down to search for sign and recover my quarry.  As I approached the shot site I was discouraged,  I found no hair, no blood, no sign that I had in fact connected with my target.  I began searching where I had seen her exit the field, and still came up empty.  Not even a drop of blood.  At this point, I had that sinking feeling in my gut that I had blown a simple shot.  There were still other hunters in the woods, that I could see from my state land tree stand, so I decided rather than continue stomping around the woods I would back out, wait til nightfall and bring in the hound.  My father accompanied me on the 1 mile trek back into the woods.  I sat Cash down and had a little chat with him.  My exact words were this, " Cash I need you right now, I need you to help me,  I know that you can't make a deer be dead, but if it is dead I need you to find it".  I started him where I knew the deer had walked, in the approximate location of my shot, I gave the "find it" command, and I truly believe he knew the genuine request that I had spoken to him before the command,  because he dug his nose down into that ground deeper than I have ever seen him work,  he walked the exact route out of the field that I knew the deer took,  walking nearly step for step where I had searched,  still not seeing any sign I was terribly discouraged,  when all of the sudden he took a hard turn into the dense thicket,  10 feet into the tangled mess I was able to shout out  "I got blood"  I was so pumped at this moment, than it was blood, blood, blood DOE DOWN!!!  The deer did not go far in all respects, however there was absolutely no visible blood until we entered the thicket ,  it would have been very difficult to find this deer, I would have probably walked right by her several times, chances are with the help of my hunting party we would have found her, but I am very lucky to have a skilled tracking dog at my disposal for just such a moment,  Thank you Cash for doing what you do!!

Friday, November 23, 2012

Michigan State land (swamp Donkey)

Tom Fanks testimonial
A very special thanks to Robert Miller and a talented dog named Sypris who helped me find the doe I had shot last night in the Lapeer State Game Area. A head shot at this deer through a very small opening through the trees and it dropped on the spot. I waited a few minutes after the shot and seen no movement thinking that the crosshairs from the scope placed between the eye and ear had hit true. I threw out a loud grunt from the grunt call and the deer jumped up and took off but soon after I heard two distinct crashes where it must have plowed dirt. I quickly descended from my tree-stand and looked for blood at the spot where the shot was placed but only seen hoof marks in the dirt. I followed the tracks and was on a blood trail in less than 10 yards with the first spot found where the deer had crashed down hard. I followed the trail for awhile maybe near 100 yards before having trouble locating blood and frustrated about the shot I had taken. The only right thing to do was call up a professional and give it everything I could to locate this deer. Rob was quickly on the scene and reviewed the information of this hunt. His dog Sypris was quickly on the blood trail and carried on from where I could not for at least another 200 yards to the Sand Hill Drain Creek. It was fun to watch the dog sniffing blood that was floating on the water and turning over leaves on top of the water to get back on the scent trail. My thought was to continue to look on the other side of the Creek while Sypris was determined to stay on the same side of the creek with a double back in the same direction from which we came. Sypris has proven her skills with the doe found along the edge of the creek near thirty yards or more back from where we first came across the creek. Rob and I reviewed the shot placement which was a half inch slug hole two inches below where I had fixed the crosshairs of the scope and I was sure glad that I had made the call for Rob and his tracking service or this deer would have been lost. I truly give a special thanks to Sypris with an amazing talent that has allowed me to have venison this year and sleep a little better at night. Thanks again Sypris and Rob for all of your help!



Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Deer tracking dogs Saginaw Michigan.

Blake made an amazing long range shot while the buck was running out in standing cornfield. Blake was using a H&R 12 gauge single shotgun. Blake waited 1/2 hour before heading over to try and locate the hit site. After several minuets Blake could not find any blood so he started following the running hoofs prints. All the sudden he started finding blood very low and very high on the cornstalks. The field was extremely muddy so following the running track was very easy. After tracking him 50-100 yards the buck went to a walking pace and his hoof prints started to blind in with all the other deer tracks and no blood trail to follow. Still no clue where his slug hit the buck. Blake called me and we discussed everything in great detail!! I told him it does not sound good and all when can do is put Sypris down and try to find him. So Blake took me to the known location and I gave Sypris the command to track. She was nailing the track and I was able to advance him from the last known spot of blood and at one point we were heading down a corn row and a Doe was walking/feeding right towards us. Aftee this point Sypris is all over the place trying to locate Blake buck and then she finds a wound bed then another then another(6 wound beds in all) I'm feeling real confidence now that we will find his buck. Sypris all the sudden locked up and was starring out in to the corn. I told Blake that I recognize this behavior and your buck must be right there "still alive". All the sudden we could hear the buck breathing so Blake loaded his shotgun and moved over about 10-12 rows and put the beast down for good. The shot ended up being a Liver hit with no exit hole.







Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Upper Peninsula Deer tracking dogs

Co worker called and said he shot a nice one and found little to no blood and it got dark and needed help. I've tracked 2 deer for his family but only after hours of them tracking first and never made a recovery he remembered the hard time I'd given him in past and called this time before they tracked it all up. Started in field where he thought buck was standing and Dozer made couple circles and started heading in direction he said the buck went. We went about 30 yds in field and another 20-30 in woods before I saw first blood and I let Dozer know he was on right track with a Good Dog and he dug in and never missed a beat. The blood was good at time and then it'd go 30-50 yards with nothing. The deer went approx 3-400 yards and my buddy looked and said no way we would've found that buck and I'm glad u gave us a hard time on last calls because Dozer made that look easy!

Friday, November 16, 2012

Deer blood tracking dogs Byron Michigan

This is a classic track where a tracking dog is utilized. This buck traveled a very long ways taking us through a standing cornfield and then in to a hardwood forest and he left the cover of the woods to travel across a open grass area that was used for cattle or horses and then crosses a narrow but deep creek and then in to 8" high cattail marsh and then out in to a cultivated pure dirt field and then a picked bean field and across another shallow creek and down a four wheeler path back in to a large wood lot that was full of pickers. This entire time Sypris kept indicating very small blood drops to prove she knew who the buck was and she was not going to give up until she found him. Over 1 mile away and what felt like all night tracking Sypris stopped and starred in to the darkness. I shinned my 300 lumens Cyclops flashlight to see the buck standing up ahead. Just as I was able to confirm it was my clients buck he vanished and I gave the commanded find him, find the buck. Sypris pulled the 30" rope tight and off we went. Maybe 100 yards farther I could see the buck and my client was able to put the buck down with buck shot. This is the type of track that you feel all the emotions that hunting and tracking can bring on. I truly did not think we were ever going to catch up to this buck and I was sure glad we were able to put him out of the Misery.

Hunters Testimonial.

I wanted to say thank you for your help in recovering my buck that other wise would have been lost to the deer gods. What I thought was going to be a minimal job turned out to be an excursion that none of us thought was going to end with the deer. I contacted Rob for help after shooting a buck, a friend and I tracked and when the blood got thin we knew the deer was heading for the swamp. Rob shows up 8 hours after the shot and Sypris starts off at first blood this little dog takes a few minutes and then we are off on the deers trail. This dog took us through the swamp we feared crossing the creek twice finally to come up on the deer still moving. The deer was dispatched for good and was brought home without Rob and Sypris this would have never happened. This track was 1.56 miles in just 1hr and 22min.
Thank you Rob and Sypris,
Tony S.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tracker Mike

I will be hunting and tracking in the North East Lower from November 15 -18 running out of the Oscoda/Mikado area. I will only track at night as I will be hunting myself . Please leave me a message or send a text will be better as I will respond to a text in the stand

Monday, November 12, 2012

Blood tracking dogs of SwartzCreek

Mike & Cash.

This track was a fairly typical call.  The Hunter had shot this buck in the morning, right at day break.  He did not have time to count the points, as the shot presented itself quickly.  He let an bolt fly from his crossbow, and saw the deer's head drop.  He was not exactly sure where he had hit the deer, and said he may have possibly hit a branch.  The hunter and his buddy took up the track and by all means had no trouble following the blood trail.  But than the trail ran out.  They performed a grid search in the standing corn where the blood had led them.  Unfortunately they where unable to locate the animal.  I arrived after dark that evening, and I could tell the hunter was a bit skeptical.  He kept saying, "I hope your dog impresses me."  As we arrived at the shot site it was exactly as he described,  it literally looked as if someone had taken a 5 gallon bucket of blood and started walking as they were dumping it out.  As usual Cash ran by the first known turn,  as I had informed the hunter my dog usually does,  he quickly turned himself back around and got back on the blood trail..  There was no shortage of sign, and it was easy to confirm that we were on the right deer.  Then just as the hunter described the blood just stopped,   and I mean just stopped,  nothing on the ground, nothing on the corn,  NOTHING.  however Cash was very sure of himself as he navigated up and through the rows of corn. approximately 200 yards after the hunters last blood we found the beautiful buck.  The hunter and his friend stopped about 75 yards shy of him while they where grid searching.  The deer had been shot right in the bottom of the neck, taking out the wind pipe.  I have to believe that the vast amount of blood turned to nothingness due to the lack of blood pressure as the deer was running out of steam.  Congratulations to the hunter on his 2012 harvest.

Dee tracking dogs Bad Axe Michigan

I shot this buck at 8 am yesterday. Tracked him for a couple hundred yards and jumped him. He ran in the neighbors woods. He was in his stand and seen him bed down, he watched him for about 45 min then he had to get down to goto work he ended up spooking him. Then the buck ran to the next wood lot. So I waited two more hours then went back to track him. It's 130 pm now and I start on the blood trail and jump him 30yds in. The buck runs deeper in the woods and couldn't here him any more. So I back out and call Eric from Michigan deer tracking hounds. He said he could come out the next morning. Eric shows up about 930 this morning and stated on the track and we found him at 1030 am he was dead. 26.5 hours later. The buck was still warm.

Deer tracking dogs Grand Rapids Michigan.

I was in Van Buren County hunting downwind of a thick bedding area yesterday (11/10) A.M. when a couple does came crashing out. Hot on their trail was a buck with his nose to the ground. He was chasing the two does in circles in front of my stand. It all happened so fast and after I took the shot I watched the arrow fly a bit farther back than I had hoped. The deer did not seem really spooked after the shot and didn't run more than 20 yards before stopping. After an hour I got down as quietly as I could, grabbed my arrow and backed out. With just watery blood on the arrrow, I assumed the worst figuring that it was a gut shot and hoped he had not gone too far to bed down.

I decided to track the next morning (today) and had Brian Westra and his dog Cider meet me from Michigan Deer Tracking Hounds. To my surprise it only took 10 mintues and about 50 yards from the shot before Cider found my deer. It turns out I hit the liver and he looked to have expired relatively soon after the shot.

We still processed the deer, but with highs in the 60's this weekend we ended up getting rid of almost half the meat which smelled quite questionable.

I originally thought it was a 10, but I'm quite proud of this 8 point! I have not scored him yet, but I am guessing between 110" and 115" and possibly my biggest to date.

-Dan

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Blood tracking dogs of Michigan

Rob,
IM not a good story teller so edit however you wish.

I was Hunting my place (Chelsea MI) Friday 11-09-12. At 5:25 This 8 Point buck 20 1/2" inside spread was coming straight for my Doe decoy. The Buck Fever Completely consumed me so much that I was hardly able to flick the safety on my crossbow. Long story Short I made a bad Hit. Called Rob Miller That Night at 10:30 PM. he advised me to wait for his arrival the next Day. All of his advice was spot on!! Rob and Cyprus Tracked my Deer with barley any trace of Blood. It was truly Like Poetry in Motion watching them work together!! Rob & Cyprus Found My Buck! If not for them I never would have recovered this Deer! They Made my Year! I sure am glad I had the best Deer tracking team in the State of Michigan with me that Day!!
Thank you Rob/Cyprus!!
Tim Heaman

Trackers note: I found 1 drop of blood on the ground and 3 transfer blood on limbs or weeds. When I Sypris found Tim's buck and I turned around and put both arms in the air tim asked you found him? I said yes!!! Tim ran like
usain bolt to his buck. I will never forget this track.

Blood tracking dogs Fenton michigan

One evening, during bow season I took a large 8pt. Even though I practice constantly, sometimes the shot isn’t always perfect, and I made a liver shot. I found the arrow and it had some blood on it of a deep purple color so I knew it was a liver shot. I decided to leave him for the night and track him first thing in the morning. I tracked the deer and found lots of blood. I found where the deer had laid, but it wasn’t there. I couldn’t find any more blood after that. I remembered my wife reading an article in the Tri County Times about Rob and Sypris. I gave him a call and he wasn’t able to help me out until about 10 pm that night. We went out and I showed Rob where I shot the deer. Right away Sypris got on the scent and took us right to where the deer had laid down. I thought the deer had probably gone to the left on a prominent deer run. Sypris took off to the right and found two small specs of blood and then nothing else for about 40 yards when we found blood again. Shortly after that, Sypris found the deer still alive .6 miles and 26 hours later. Thanks Rob and Sypris for a great job. I would highly recommend you to anyone, in fact, I did today!!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Michigan deer tracking dogs

Guys,
On the morning of Nov. 6th at 8:20 am all the stars aligned for me and God blessed me with this beautiful buck. He was 52 yards and quartering away when I shot him with my dad's crossbow. (I know I was cheating!). At first I thought the arrow went into the front of his right rear leg and forward into his gut. He was bleeding profusely once the arrow hit. He staggered off at a slow walk as he was dragging his right rear leg. I was confident that it was a mortal hit. I waited for half an hour, marked where I found first blood and followed the blood for 20 yards.
At that point I decided not to push him so I went home, showered, voted and Michele and I went to lunch. I went back to track him at 2pm with my Dad, and my friends Jeff Mazur and Roger Gudobba. We had really good blood for the first 300 yds. From then it went to a few drops here and there. We found a spot where it had bedded down and two more good puddles at around 600 yards. From this last blood the trail forked in a few directions so we branched out from there, not finding anything else. It was in a real thick area and it was getting later with less light to work with. I knew that it was way too nice of a buck to lose so I decided to call Rob Miller from Linden, MI who has a couple of German Dachshunds that are trained to find dead deer.
He met Roger and I at 9:00am the following morning and put his dog Syprus on first blood. She sniffed around for a couple minutes, locked on to the scent and started following the blood trail. She followed the exact blood trail we marked the day before. As we approached the last blood the dog found the back part of the arrow with the first four inches broken off which we had not seen the day before. From there she stuck her nose in the air and took off left of the trail into the back yards of a subdivision. Rob worked with her for a minute in a small grassy area and said he smelled a strong odor of buck urine. He walked her back to last blood and off she went to the right of the trail into some really thick thorny briers. Rob immediately said "There is your deer Joe." We were standing 10 yards away from it and still could not see it. How that deer was able to get into there with that rack is beyond me. Needless to say we were all ecstatic. We had been within 10 yards of that deer in total daylight and never saw it. I am thoroughly convinced that without the help of Rob Miller and his dog Syprus that this beautiful buck would never have been found.
My thanks goes out to Rob, Syprus and everyone else who was involved in recovering this deer. If you have never seen a trained tracking dog work it is truly an amazing experience and well worth the money!
I ended up hitting the buck high at the top of the rear leg and severing the main artery that runs along the top of its back. Our total track was .52 miles according to the GPS. My taxidermist (John Lombardo) gross scored the 11 pointer at 165.5" and said it appears to be 5 1/2 years old according to the wear on the teeth. This is truly a once in a lifetime buck!


Happy Hunting,
Joe

Monday, November 5, 2012

Blood tracking dogs of michigan

Chase Ridenour testimonial

​I shot my 10 point buck on Sunday, November 4, at around 5:30 p.m. I got down from my stand 30 minutes later, and went up to my house. At 7:00 p.m. we went out to go track the deer. The blood trail was very good for about 100 yards. Then all of a sudden the trail stopped. We looked all over for another sign of blood for 30 minutes. But we decided to pull out and wait till morning. The next morning I stayed home from school to track the deer. The blood was better than we thought, but we still couldn’t find any more blood from the spot we lost it at. So we called a guy with a tracking dog. He said that he would come over right away. At 9:00 a.m. he showed up. The dog seemed like it was on a good trail, but we went 4 miles without any blood. He told us that the dog just wasn’t working right that day. So he asked us if we wanted someone else to come out and track it, and we said sure. So he called Rob Miller. Rob said he could come out. When he got there he told us that if the deer was dead, he would find it. At that point I was pretty confident. So we walked out with his dog, Cyprus. She seemed to be on a good trail. And about 100 yards away from last blood, Cyprus found more blood. At that point I knew we were going to find my deer. Cyprus kept on finding blood. I was standing at last blood, and all of a sudden after ¾ of a mile I heard Rob say, “Dead deer.” I was so excited, when I saw the deer; he was bigger than I thought. When I picked up his head I realized that I had shot a 10 point. I couldn’t believe that I shot a 10 point buck for my second deer/buck. I can’t thank Rob and Cyprus enough for finding my deer. This was definitely a buck worth finding.
Thank you Rob and Cyprus


Deer tracking dogs of Michigan

After tracking my buck for 1 ½ hours and about 150 yards the blood dried up and we decided to wait until morning. While I was worrying about not finding my deer I remembered hearing great stories about dogs that find deer. I texted Rob and he came to meet me the next morning. My nephew was skeptical as we watched the dog walk in circles at the impact site. We both became believers as we watched the dog work. The distance that took us 1 ½ hours to track took Rob about 5 minutes to cover and then where we lost blood it was only about another 5 minutes and the deer was recovered. The fletching on my arrow was stuck in the exit hole, which stopped the blood flow. It was amazing to watch Rob and his dog work and I have a nice 7pt to show for it. Thanks Michigan Deer Track-n Hounds!

Bob Foreback

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Blood tracking dogs of michigan. Wayne county

Team whitetail Fix puts a BBD and MDTH helps out and finds the buck 1.5 miles away. The track was 28.5 after the shot. Testimonial coming soon