Ugly Dog Deer Tracking

11/16/2024

Archie’s been busy. I slowed down to do some hunting myself.

10/31/2024

10/24/2024

Got behind on recovery pics/stories but we’re still having some fun in the woods and ready for more!

10/20/2024

09/29/2024

https://youtu.be/-RU-A010yP4?si=w3OMfFRP4OktfaFh

09/29/2024

My TRAKR shirt was lucky today! 1400 yards on a doe this morning and 350 tonight on a stomach entry/intestine exit deer that wasn’t quite expired at 10 hours.

09/28/2024

Archie gettin his favorite reward!

09/27/2024

350 coyote infested yards. Archie stayed focused and got us to this dandy.

09/15/2024

High rear lung didn’t bleed much and the pine straw made it even tougher to see so the hunter had us out to speed things up and make sure she was recovered. Nothing hard. 130 yards from where the hunter backed out. 200 total. Archie got a bedtime scooby snack for his efforts.

09/14/2024

First track of the season. 625 yards with a pond crossing. Was a suspected hard quartering away gut/liver/lung hit but hit was lower and ended up only being gut liver. Still alive at 7 hours. Knife dispatch and hunter had his deer.

08/18/2024

Archie and I are back and ready for our 4th full season. Call if you need help finding your deer or bear. UBT-2 certified with over 100 recoveries.

03/11/2024

Always neat watching these videos. I like how it shows how low the top of the rib cage dips down as you move forward at the shoulder leaving nothing but meat behind the shoulder blade above the spinal cord. More reason to back up from those big shoulder bones.

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02/14/2024

Archie finally got to hit the ice a few times this past weekend.

01/11/2024

Archie’s first ever coyote hunt resulted in a hat trick. 3 shots, 3 yotes, in the first 3 minutes. He met the first big male at the call and proceeded to get bit in the ass but when they squared off, I dumped the distracted yote. The second coyote left at the shot but turned around with the pup in distress sound. Archie engaged it and stopped it at 75 yards. I shot and it took off to my left with Archie on its tail. Things went quiet for a minute or two when I finally noticed Archie coming at me from straight away. Once Archie got to me I noticed the third coyote coming up the hill on his ass. Archie rushed out to deal with it and had it stopped at 40-50 yards. I shot it, it dropped, got up and Archie ran it down 200 yards away.

01/07/2024

The dreaded high shoulder shot. 👎🏽

12/22/2023

The hunter described a “low hit” and saw a “bloody front leg” yesterday morning 9am. But what caught my attention was the deer’s reaction after the shot. She trotted a bit, stood for 5 minutes, walked a short distance and bedded. Got up on her own shortly thereafter and walked/trotted away and over a hill out of sight. I received a couple arrow pics that confirmed my suspicion of a stomach/gut shot. We gave the deer 10 hours which in hindsight wasn’t nearly enough but being close to home and on a huge property with no fear of “bumping onto the neighbors”, we went on the early side of wait times. Archie tracked quickly 200 yards from the hunter’s last point of view to her bedded. I tied Archie to a tree and was able to dispatch her with a knife. Normally we give these hits 16+ hours but after considering all the factors, which there’s about 5 I run through my head, we pushed the envelope and got the deer pretty quickly.