BLAZE Big Game Tracking and Recovery

BLAZE Big Game Tracking and Recovery Blaze is an American Labrador Retriever. UBT-2 Certified. Will chew on deers butt upon recovery. Handler at zero charge. Blaze gets paid with praise and pets.

No deer on a tailgate on this one. But the little black dog showed us at least where the deer spent some time 800ish yar...
11/23/2025

No deer on a tailgate on this one. But the little black dog showed us at least where the deer spent some time 800ish yards away from the shot location.

Still fun to get out, and the hunter seemed to feel better knowing that this deer is likely still on the hoof.

As deer trackers. We don’t always find them. And that might not be the dogs fault. Sometimes they’re just not dead. This...
11/13/2025

As deer trackers. We don’t always find them. And that might not be the dogs fault. Sometimes they’re just not dead. This particular buck was eye sight tracked for 500. And then blaze ran it another 400 yards or so. Jumped the buck out of its bed. Ran it 200 more. And called it.

Yeah yeah we know. It wasn’t a good shot. Accidents happen. You’re not perfect either.

But the take away here is that if you’ve had a dog come out, didn’t recover the animal, and you later find out of it living by either seeing it, a trail cam photo, or the neighbor killing it. Let your tracker know. We want to hear the end of the story too. And we like to know why we couldn’t recover your animal.

We call it Proof of Life. I’ll bet I’ve got no less than 5 proof of life’s this week. And I appreciate every single one of them.

Say on it, keep hunting. And good luck!

If you need a tracker, Minnesota Tracking Dogs and TRAKR is here to help. Just remember. It’s busy and not everyone will secure a tracking dog.

Headed home from the Kanabec county track, and the phone chimes in. Txt from a guy, Charlie. Blaze and I got to recover ...
11/12/2025

Headed home from the Kanabec county track, and the phone chimes in. Txt from a guy, Charlie. Blaze and I got to recover a deer for him last season. Awesome track, hell of a guy, and he really appreciated our efforts.
So he says his cousin has a deer that needed tracking. I asked for a number and was ready to help. Before the number came in, I got a trail cam pic of one hell of a deer. We made a plan and off we go.

Talked to a buddy on the way down, I actually told him that sure it’s cool to find big deer for people. But it’s not like it’s going on my wall. So at that point. They’re just a picture and a tally on the total. So to us, a doe is just as important as a booner buck.

Get to the his site and Blaze SMOKED the first couple hundred yards. Hit a fence and pumped the breaks waiting for the hunter, his kid, and Charlie. Had to be 10min.

We regroup and from there the dog just seemed to struggle. I wasn’t gonna stop till we either saw the deer on the hoof, or dead in a bed. Off we go. Zig right, zag left. Circle back. And next thing we know… BLAZE TOUCHED HIS NOSE TO A HAMMER OF A BUCK!

Me being me. I orchestrated some cell video of the reaction. (In the comments on the Blaze Page). It’s worth the watch.

This deer was on cam in velvet, went MIA, and then was seen again down the road a ways. He chased that thing from the day he knew of its existence. The starts aligned, the northern lights were painting the sky, and this deer rubbed his last tree when the hunter took the shot. It was actually hit decent, just lacking an exit

It’s a blast to be apart of the end to the story.

Congratulations!!!! The hunter called him Trigger. But I called him the Crow River King. Either way, this Wright Co buck is headed for the taxidermist!!!

The father in law poked a shot into the distance on a buck tonight. Went to take care of business and the dang thing jum...
11/12/2025

The father in law poked a shot into the distance on a buck tonight. Went to take care of business and the dang thing jumped up and boogied! He had a little blood, and lost it.
At one time I used to have the neighbors number but he passed away. Took a little while to get permission to go from his family, But we got it all figured out.

Blaze ripped out 4/10 of a mile pretty quick and showed us a Kanabec county swamp buck!

Congrats Jason!!!

I call this one, “I wonder if the deer are thinking about me too”
11/08/2025

I call this one, “I wonder if the deer are thinking about me too”

I forgot about this one from Sunday, blaze pull a pretty nice line and stop short about 20 yards. Hooked to 90° turn an...
11/06/2025

I forgot about this one from Sunday, blaze pull a pretty nice line and stop short about 20 yards. Hooked to 90° turn and actually walked away from it for a minute. I’m thinking the dog might have been following a scent cone? He got us extremely close, we were actually able to put her eyes on it before blaze touched his nose to it. But nonetheless, we got another deer on a tailgate.

I would venture to say that you would’ve had to be 6 feet away from this deer to see it. These guys might have been able...
11/06/2025

I would venture to say that you would’ve had to be 6 feet away from this deer to see it. These guys might have been able to locate this animal in an extensive grid search. Maybe.

But sometimes it’s easier to just let the dog show you where it’s at

Congratulations on your first ever deer, sir! Memories were made in North branch tonight.

Lately there have been a lot of requests for deer tracking, and honestly, the majority of them are shoulder shot. Those recovery odds are like less than 10%.

Just aim for the big part, we got it from there usually

We took on a track yesterday night. Starting at about 300 yards in where the hunter lost blood. That point was only mayb...
11/05/2025

We took on a track yesterday night. Starting at about 300 yards in where the hunter lost blood. That point was only maybe 20 yards off a road.

Blaze took a min to hook up (actually he got the exit right away and I didn’t trust him 😂)

Across the road. Down into a swamp. Two beds, out of the swamp. Across a CRP field with scattered white pines and cedars, and next thing you know I heard something on the back side of a cedar. Kept going and eventually we stopped. Just didn’t see any proof to show the dog was right.

Reset. Go back to last blood on the edge of the swamp. Caught up with the hunter there. Here there was the beds and blood that we didn’t see on the first line but went right over them.

Ran it again, but with the hunter and his dad in tow.

Back to the cedar and this time we saw a bed. Down a hill and called the track due to a property line.

Hunter got permission this morning. Track was doable again without a dog. Finding blood on their own.

Deer ended up heading back to their farm and they all agreed the shot was not lethal.

It was a fun one to pick apart even though we didn’t have a deer on a tailgate. Blaze showed rhe hunter proof at around 675 yards from the shot location.

Fun times in the deer woods.

The track before was a non recovery on a suspected brisket hit. But we found a potentially poached late born fawn on a reset. Hole sure looked like a gun shot, not archery. Left it in the hands of the area CO to check out. The stuff we come across is always interesting.

We did the first half of this track on Thursday night, then the second half on Friday morning. We tracked this deer a sh...
11/01/2025

We did the first half of this track on Thursday night, then the second half on Friday morning. We tracked this deer a short distance and found it alive in a bed right next to a barbwire fence on the side of the road. It took off across the black top and we decided to give him the night.  it was a short, easy layup after that. That deer did not go far.

This Hunter is participating in a deer management Hunt and needed to fill an antlerless tag before he is able to hunt a bucks per the rules of the hunt

Congratulations on your validation deer, and hopefully a big guy steps out for you!!

I am participating in the same Hunt and was also able to take an antlerless yesterday morning. I’ve got two more days to find a big Buck that is willing to cooperate!  the second picture is my deer. And the third is of a doe that was just about licking my trail camera last night.

Blaze and I are going to unplug from tracking from 10/30 to 11/2. I'm going to try and punch a buck tag this week and th...
10/29/2025

Blaze and I are going to unplug from tracking from 10/30 to 11/2. I'm going to try and punch a buck tag this week and then commit to tracking for rifle season exclusively. I've got my eye on a buck, and he's starting to cooperate with shooting hours! If something pops up halfway close to home, I'll do my best to assist if I can. Again, the TRAKR app is a great tool to attempt to secure a tracker. Please remember that most of us do have lives outside of tracking, including significant others, jobs, and a passion for deer hunting. These dogs do get tired and need a break too, and injury to the dog or the handler is a thing. Blaze is cut up, scratched up, he's been poked by barbed wire, has blood on his tongue on just about every other track, and the hair around his eyes is wearing off from piling through the thick of the thick. He has a love for the game, and I unfortunately have to draw the line here and there to let him recover. As we approach the rut, the need for tracking dogs goes through the roof. There are about 60 of us in the state. As I recall, I want to say there were 300ish app requests in MN alone last year on opening weekend. We do what we can to help as many people as possible. THE APP DOES WORK, it’s a shortchange of trackers and an excess of less than ideal shots that’s the problem.

Good luck to you guys still in the market for a deer, and congrats to those who were lucky enough to punch that tag! We’ve been seeing some beautiful harvests when tracking and here on FB.

Be safe. Think smart. And make them shots count.

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