FastRak Whitetail Recovery

12/17/2025

Doesn’t matter what I’m doing. It’s one handed If Red can help it 🤣

12/16/2025

First recovery of 2025🥵⏩️⏩️⏩️Last recovery of 2025🥶 I think we’re done taking tracks for the year. We might help out if we get some flintlock calls but for the most part, that’s a wrap. As always I’m so thankful that we’re healthy enough to run these hills like we do. I’m always excited for the new season but at the same time I get sad when season ends, knowing another year is behind us means that’s one less year we have ahead of us to track together. A dogs life is short, so when you all call us to come help you recover your deer, remember, you’re helping my best buddy and sidekick do what he loves more than anything while making some amazing friends and memories along the way. After all, one day the memories will be all we have🙏 Thanks again Pa Whitetail Hunters and everyone else who supports is along the way! Next year will be the best yet💪💪

12/14/2025

Good time this morning shooting 3D at the Possum Hollow Sportmans Club . Good food, good conversation, and a nice facility. I think I’m going to become a member.

12/12/2025

Picked up my new Mathews Arc last night. Built some arrows, hopefully I can get it dialed in tonight and be in a tree in ohio Sunday morning. I’m bummed my red strings didn’t come in but I’m too impatient to wait. I’ll take it back after Ohio season ends and get the red installed.

12/10/2025

12/07/2025

500 yards away from the hit site, 16 hours post shot and the hunter was able to make a clean follow up shot. This deer was hit thru both shoulders with a 300 mag. Unbelievably tough animals.

12/07/2025

AATTAAA BOYYY REDDD‼️‼️ Lil Red put on a tracking CLINIC today‼️ Last night I got a text that the hunter had hit the deer in the shoulder area and a pass thru with a 300 Win Mag, a wicked gun. He hit him solid, the deer rared up on impact and when he landed on his back one of the antlers popped off and was laying at the hit site. When the hunter told me he found a chunk of scapula in the ground I said “ive seen this situation multiple times, it’s a dying deer but it’s going to take a long time for him to expire unless you can get a follow up shot and end it quickly”. We made a plan to go this morning and track slowly and carefully, it worked perfect. This deer went about 500 yards after the shot, we found one bed along the way and not a drop of blood. Wayne said “Red looks like he’s getting real excited” I said “yea man he’s going hot”. About a minute later I see the buck laying there, very labored breathing, it was clear he was close to the end. The deer let us get to less than 10 yards before even trying to move. The hunter was able to get a clean follow up shot and end the story. Congrats brother!!

12/05/2025

When I get s**t from ppl because I won’t support drone recovery, this is exactly why. For every one person that does it legally and only uses for recovery, there’s TEN guys who can’t kill a deer the old fashioned way so they use them to illegally locate. And THIS is EXACTLY why I DO SUPPORT the PA Game Commission on their stance against drone recovery in our state. I don’t care who gets their panties in a bunch. I’m NOT drone hater, I’m a true outdoorsman and I believe in hunters using fair and ethical methods only when hunting any animal.

District 9 officers recently completed an investigation involving several hunters who utilized a drone to pattern, scout, and harvest a white-tailed buck. The investigation also revealed several other hunting violations. After receiving several complaints about a drone following a well-known deer daily, conservation officers launched an investigation to identify who was flying the drone. During the course of the investigation, officers discovered the operator’s identity, that the drone had been flown regularly, and the day the deer was harvested, all with the intent of locating and patterning the deer. Many of the photos taken the days leading up to and the day of harvest were of that particular deer. Officers also discovered the subjects had shot the deer over bait and trespassed to retrieve the downed deer. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

Indiana conservation officers remind the public that drones cannot be used to search for, scout, locate or detect deer during the hunting season and for 14 days prior to the hunting season. Drones may be used to locate and recover legally taken deer.

For more information on deer hunting regulations please visit:

https://www.eregulations.com/assets/docs/resources/IN/25INHD_LR5.pdf

12/04/2025

Ahh late season bow hunting. A lot of guys are giving up hope, starting to think maybe they won’t tag out this year. Not me. I take full advantage, during main season I’m always trying to juggle taking tracks and still getting in my own time in a stand. Late season my phone is quiet and I can hunt almost any evening I want. Ive been holding off this week waiting on my new Mathews Arc to be ready then I’ll hit it hard! I’m tagged out in Pa but I look forward to these late seasons in Ohio. Especially this year because I’m supposed to be having a phone meeting Tmro about an Ohio lease close to home in Columbiana🙏🙏

12/02/2025

When people ask me how I know if Red is just walking or if he’s on a trail I tell them just watch that tail. Nose down, tail to the sky means this dog is smelling what he’s looking for! That tail never fails😂

12/01/2025

ATTAAAA BOYYY REDDD‼️ One of those tracks that make you feel good. These situations are extra special, and my opinion one of the most important scenarios to utilize a tracking dog. This is a youth hunter, his first buck, he made an EXCELLENT shot. The deer dropped some blood at the hit site but the hole became plugged up very quickly and the blood stopped. The terrain that the deer was in made it an almost impossible track without blood. There was deer trails with fresh tracks everywhere so hoof tracking wasn’t an option. Had this young man lost this deer he would’ve had his confidence ruined thinking he made a bad shot. Thankfully his aunt had my number and she reached out immediately when they lost blood. Coincidentally I was on my way home from another track and very close to their location. We ran over there and made this young man’s day, and most importantly were able to show him that his shot was great and it’s just one of those things in deer hunting. Congrats young fella.

12/01/2025

We found this young hunters first buck in the pond today 💪💪🦌🦮