Rack Trackers Deer Recovery

Rack Trackers Deer Recovery A professional service to recover wounded whitetail deer for hunters with a trained tracking dog.

02/10/2026

With a deer recovery dog, they are always looking for scent and as a handler we are always reading their body language. Today, Jett gave me a “proximity alert” (which means she’s telling me she’s close to her target by wagging her tail and butt uncontrollably). She did this app. 20 yards away from this antler, and by the time I could dig my phone out she was on it. Even though I no longer train her for finding antlers, she will still occasionally find one for me. Good day in the woods!

Bowhunting can be a game of inches. This buck was tracked on November 4th for a hunter that knew the general area of th...
12/05/2025

Bowhunting can be a game of inches. This buck was tracked on November 4th for a hunter that knew the general area of the hit on the deer, but lost blood while tracking the deer. I put Jett to work on it the next day and she took us to their marked last blood and she seemed to struggle after that. When this happens, it indicates to me that the deer is not giving off the ‘dead deer’ scent needed to track and to my dog, the buck’s scent is just like every other deer in the timber. I restarted her several times to be certain we weren’t leaving the hunter’s deer in the woods, but Jett only advanced the track a short ways further and was verified by a drop of blood crossing a creek. We don’t always get the fun of a recovery because of live deer, but many times we can ease a hunter’s mind knowing that every effort was made to recover and it is still alive. The buck showed up on trail camera November 29th, 3 and 1/2 weeks later. More than likely was breeding does during that time and now returning to his home area. The wound is circled in the first picture.

11/29/2025

Confirmed alive…and still chasing. This buck was a little more special because it was one I tracked for my young niece during firearm deer season and one that I videoed 2 days earlier while bow hunting (clip in comments). The only evidence at the hit site was white hair so we weren’t sure what to expect. Jett locked on quickly and took us to first blood at 200 yards or so. It was just a few drops. We went app. 1100 yards to the neighbor’s fence while only finding a few drops of blood along the way, but I could tell she wanted to keep tracking. We didn’t want to ruin our neighbor’s hunting, so we backed out at the fence and I went back the next day with approval of the landowners. Jett restarted at the fence at the 48 hour mark and took the track another 400+ yards and was verified with 2 drops of blood. After that, the buck seemed to quit putting out the “adrenaline” scent needed to progress further and I called her off and assumed another live deer. It was great to see the buck back in action and not lost to the buzzards. He’ll be bigger next year!

Jett and I were called to help recover this young man’s buck on the 1st day of Illinois firearm deer season. After find...
11/29/2025

Jett and I were called to help recover this young man’s buck on the 1st day of Illinois firearm deer season. After finding the deer, we realized that the shot placement was good, but this buck just didn’t leave a visible blood trail. On top of that, it rained hard all morning long washing away any blood that would be visible. We agreed to track after the rain quit, which was about 6 hours later. Jett made quick work of this track and the heavy rains didn’t diminish the scent of the fatally wounded deer. This was one of those tracks that is a good representation of showing hunters that lots of scent profiles are present in a track that we cannot see, but a trained dog can pick up even after a heavy rain.

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