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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Cash money!!

Phenominal performance by Cash. It was not an easy track, The hunter had good blood for the first 100 yards, than it died out. They did a 3 man grid search, which was easily identifiable by my dogs actions, and the pattern on my gps. We restarted once, Cash slowed way down, worked his way past the last blood in a different direction than the grid search, about 20 yards from than he stopped indicated blood, i showed the hunter and kept going, about 40 yards from that found anothed spot on the beans, we than worked another 70 yards down to a creek finding no other blood, into the thick nasty stuff, climbing over and under logs, we worked in the creek about 30 yards, and he darted up the creek bank. We came up on the other side to another bean field. right as i came up the bank and hit the beans i saw a good 5 or 6 quarter size blood spots, I alerted the hunter he came barreling across the creek amazed. Now i knew it was on, we hit the next bean field calling of blood every 3 to five yards, another 150 or so yards of finding significant blood, and we came across a pool, i shouted to the hunter "huge pool of blood" he cant be far.. 20 yards from there, dead deer... All and all the entire track was .4 miles.

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Commemorative Bucks of Michigan member Mel Drummond of Morrice Michigan was hunting the evening of Friday October 21 and he had the opportunity to harvest this southern Michigan 8 point. He knew his shot was high and a little back so he waited awhile Friday night before taking up the track. The buck started bleeding about fifty yards into the track. The blood trail was very easy to track the first 250 yards. I could instantly tell that Mel made a "LIVER" shot due to the color of blood and the grit that was on his arrow. After last blood the deer followed the edge of the swamp and the base of a ridge. There was about 50-60 yards 0f no blood and the buck turned in to the swamp and I found a smear mark of blood on the side of a limb. Through out the swamp I found a fair amount of blood and i knew it would be very soon and Sypris would be finding her reward. The buck exited the swamp and started up the ridge and just before the top of the ridge sypris found the buck tucked up under neath a log. This track was about 14 hours old.

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Ryan shot the buck at 6 yards from the ground and had a complete pass through with a fixed 3 blade broad head. They tracked the buck 150 yards and the blood was getting very spars. At one point they found two softball size of frothy blood confirming a lung hit. Realizing they were struggling they decided to call in a 10 pound track'n hound "Scout". Scout for what ever the reason did not want to track my clients deer so I started to help them try to blood track with our flash lights. We did this for two hundred yards and then when we could not figure it out scout took over and took us on over a mile long track. At one point we found a wound bed with blood in it and with Scout hot on the trail we decided to push the buck because we thought it was a single lung hit. The buck finally crossed a small river and it was past midnight so we decided to back out and pick up the trail in the morning. Scout picked up right where the buck exited the river and we tracked him up into some high ground. We found a wound bed with blood in it and from there scout took us across a road and started through a cut corn field. I was questing his actions and that's when I spotted a Doe out in the field so I realized he was tracking a hot line. So I took scout backed to the wound bed and he turned left started heading south and I could not fin any blood through the thicket so I had my doubts he was back on him. Talking with the hunter and his friend we basically decided this buck was going to live so I went to go get scout. I found scout less than thirty feet from my clients buck stone cold dead. The buck was doubled lung and hit in the liver. I still can not believe this buck was able to travel the total distance of 2.2 miles. Ryan is a pro staff member of Realtree outdoors. Note this buck would never been recovered with out the aide of a track'n hound.



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Shot back in the low stomach and the hunters arrow was covered with gut matters. I did find gut matter on the ground and white hair. Sypris tracked the buck 350 yards with no blood and then we jumped the buck. After we jumped the buck he ran out in to a swamp. The swamp was very deep of water so the hunter had to go back to his house to get waiters so Sypris and I could track out in to the swamp, she was swimming through the marsh and we jumped the buck out in the marsh. We then kept on pushing the buck until he was to tired. After six times of jumping the buck he finally stayed bedded so we back out to get the hunters bow and I put Sypris in the car and the hunter moved in to put the fatal shot.

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Eric P of South Lion shot this 145 inch 9 point (Jackson county) Devils Lake Buck during his evening hunt(11-12-09)he ended up hitting the buck way back in the paunch. The buck was angling forward at him but when Eric let the arrow go the buck turned for the worse making the angle almost straight on. Eric called me immediately after making the shot to inquire about my service. After our phone conversation we decided to let the buck lay overnight and I would help after work the next day. Eric showed up a little early to try to learn the direction the buck went. He only found two drops of blood within the first 150 yards. Scout started off slow getting distracted by a Raccoon and then by some does that ran past us. After I got him refocused Scout found Two chunks of fat and one more drop of blood. This buck went threw a large open woods and into a swamp witch Scout had to swim threw some water and find the line on the other side then he took us out of the swamp into a peninsula of woods. At this point we are about 2 hours into track and we did not see any more blood to confirm Scout was on the correct buck. He took us up and around a peninsula of woods and at this point I had real doubts that we where going to recovery this buck. Close to the end of the line I picked Scout up to call it quits and Scout wanted out of my arms real bad so i put him down and forty yards up in a thorn patch was Eric trophy. The total distance was about 1200 yards with only 3 drops of blood and the line was 26 hours old it took Scout 2 hours and 20 min. The main reason Scout was able to find this buck was Eric did not push the buck and he did not stomp the area with human scent. Hunters do not realise how much DAMAGE they can do by searching blindly ahead of the last blood. This was Scout farthest recovery and the oldest scent trail to date. Eric with out your help this track my have not been a successful one. Thank you Rob and Scout