Longspur Tracking and Outfitting

10/15/2025

Kipley of Longspur’s Ugly Dog Division

10/15/2025

10/15/2025

This isn’t my picture, but it’s been making its way around Facebook, and I thought I’d share it — it definitely gave me a good laugh!

10/15/2025

Longspur’s Middle Ground Wounded Game Recovery

We received a referral call Monday from a hunter that describe a back of lung/liver hit. With it being warm out we decided to give it a go late Monday night to avoid meat spoilage. They had tracked 200yds or so and was having trouble finding blood so they backed out. One of our clients from last season referred them to us. We appreciate these call.
We started Lady May at the hit site and she began to work. We made it to their last blood petty quick. Shortly there after, we started up and out a ridge. Her tempo picks up which is normally a good sign but she’s casting left and right a lil more than normal. We work a couple hundred yards out the ridge with no confirmation of blood. We had been finding it every few yards prior to the ridge. I pull her back to last blood and restart her. We stay on the flat below the ridge this time but we are paralleling the ridge. We confirm blood in a couple spots along the way. She starts making her way up the side of the ridge. When we get to the top she’s back to working faster. We find a spot of blood. I marked it on my garmin and look at the line to see where we are at. This is where I tell you how big of a dummy I am…. We were like 30yds from where I pulled her the first time. I look left out on the point of the ridge and see eyes. The deers eyes disappear. She was working the wind/thermals the first pull up the ridge. She’s locked in and knows the buck is close. Unsure if this was THE deer we approach the point. There is no deer there but she’s telling me this is him. Sometimes a deer will parish not long after the initial jump so we pursue the track. We find blood.. This is OUR target. We walk up on the buck bedded again. He lets us get a lil closer. He’s failing. He bumps out of that bed but isn’t moving very fast. We stop briefly and push on. We find him again but this time we are able to get less than 20 yds from him. The hunter gets in position and gets another arrow in him. Initial hit was back and a little high with and exit in the opposite ham. Total deer travel was 1500yds. Congrats to the hunter on this nice WV buck.

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10/15/2025

Bloodline Trackers of Longspur

O'l Tig slid on down to the "Old Dominion" for a late night rendezvous with this majestic beast of the forest. Just lending a nose and helping out 👌...
That's the fifth state young Tigger has recovered in, the fourth this season.

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10/15/2025

You call and we track. It’s what we do. In tracking, there is a term called “cherry picking”—some trackers sift through tracks and only take the guaranteed ones. It’s not cool, and it doesn’t do anything for the hunters who need help.
We have turned down tracks in the past. High shoulder shots and back whacks are not a priority in the heat of the rut when we are trying to help the greatest number of hunters that have great pe*******on or great descriptions in a mystery hit. To clarify, have we turned down a deer that was dead? Yes. They make you sick, but you learn and you get better.
Chad Saas called us from Harrison County, WV. His son Graham had hit a buck. Chad didn’t see the hit. Graham was describing a good shot but possibly back a little. We made a plan and hit the road.
Chad had a buddy run a thermal drone the evening before to no avail. There was no blood, no hair. The arrow screamed gut. Other than 2-3 brown gunk spots where the buck had jumped the fence by the food plot, there was nothing. We dropped Jess on the track and she took off uphill. Nothing.
We backed up and reset. Chad had searched the area well and hard, driving an ATV around the property. I was concerned with scent degradation and dispersal. So we got Jesse lined out and started again. She picked her way through all the disruption and took a line downhill this time in an area Chad had not gone.
It was thick! I don’t know how a large buck got through this area, let alone a tracker attached to a tracking dog. We kept inching down the mountain—no blood, no sign a deer had passed this way. We hit a point about 450 yards into the track where Chrissy went ahead and we let Jesse work down the brushy holler to her. Chrissy took the reins from there. Jesse and Chrissy continued down the holler another 250 yards as Chad and I worked our way out of the brush into an overgrown field. As we made our way down the mountain towards Chrissy, she yelled up that she had the buck!
This buck was shot way back! No blood, no sign. Just a determined dog to get to the end of the track! The team is clicking. I think some trackers would have thought this wasn’t viable. No sign on the ground, the arrow with a look of a gut shot, but the fat could throw someone off thinking brisket. Just go and confirm. Track. Work the dog and learn the dog! 700 yards, 24 hours, and no sign—and Graham has his buck!
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10/15/2025

Appalachian Aerial Solutions of Longspur

We got a call the other night from a hunter that wasn’t quite sure on his shot placement. Within 40 minutes we were able to find the buck and provide the hunter with proof of life. This buck was not mortally wounded and will make a full recovery. More on this story to come soon.

(304)-377-9468

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GoMart
Spartan Forge Technology
Luckys Outdoors
Wiebe Knives
Tre Kerns, Whitetail Properties Real Estate - WV
Garmin Fish & Hunt
LITE Boots
The General
GunDog Outdoors
American Flyway Waterfowl
Huntbnb
Mother Clucker Calls
Drone Deer Recovery
Longspur Tracking and Outfitting
Longspur SkyDogs LLC

10/15/2025

Clear View Drone Services LLC.
Serving Maryland and Delaware

10/14/2025

Jewel of Longspur Tracking and Outfitting

10/14/2025

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