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The Blooded Hound Big Game Tracking Service, Imlay City, MI (2025)

01/03/2025

Cheri and I are back from our trapping trip. We would like to get a few more tracks in before the season closes.

We will be tracking within 30 minutes of Imlay City for donations the rest of the season. Or be taking training tracks for Red.

12/24/2024

Cheri wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas before she went on the line check this morning!

12/22/2024

I shot this doe last night quartering too me. I hit her behind the shoulder and exited through the liver. She ran about 100 yards, so I decided to go back home and get the bloodhounds and see if Red could find her.

I haven't worked with him on scent yet but I've noticed he tracks everything and he is always working is nose, and I figured blood would definitely grab his attention.

I took him to the hit site, pointed to the hair and told him, find that! He quickly grabbed the line and head right toward the deer. He got within 25 yards of her and over ran the line. The doe had made a hard left turn just before she died.

I gave him a couple of minutes to try to figure it out, but the temps were already at -1 degrees and dropping fast, I got a little impatient and I turned the new pup trainer Cheri loose!

Cheri went right to her and Red followed her the 25 yards. I wasn't surprised he missed that turn as he is still so full of energy, but I think in time, he will be a good tracking dog.

Cheri was not thrilled to have him with her on a track so I'll have to work on that also.

If anyone shoots a deer and needs some help, please give us a call. Red could use the training, and of course I would bring Cheri along as insurance that we don't leave your deer behind!

This track was 4 hours old and it was so cold, the blood was freezing as it came out of the deer. I think had that not happened Red may have not missed that turn and gone to her.

12/19/2024

Cheri tracked her 1st ELK yesterday!

It took 3 starts to get her on the track. The DNR had been out to clear the hunter and had walked right on the line.

After the 3rd start Cheri grabbed the cow line and off she went. About 1 mile into the track we found our last blood. All the blood we found was just little drops so finding the cow dead wasn't looking good.

I let Cheri continue and about 400 yards later, she had jumped the cow on ridge top. We continued the track to see if pushing her would get her to start bleeding again.

We crossed a road and she had not started to bleed again. I checked my Onx to see how far we had gone and seen that she was headed toward some private land we did not have permission to track on, so we had to stop the track.

So I guess technically she did find the cow! Just not the way the hunter wanted us to find her!

He had been cleared to continue his hunt by the DNR, so hopefully he will call and Cheri can go pull some hair or bury her 1st Elk.

12/06/2024

We will be adding a 2nd tracker to our pack. Meet Red! Red is a 1.5 y.o male bloodhound and will be backing Cheri up next fall.

Cheri isn't a giant fan of this but I think she will be alright with some help come next fall.

12/02/2024

We got a call from Brian Saturday afternoon. He said he was hunting with his daughter Friday night and had shot a doe with his 450. He said the doe dropped to the ground in the front end and plowed through the field then finally getting her legs under her and ran off into a thicket.

He waited until Saturady morning to track so his kids could be involved. They tracked the deer about 200 yards with good blood before losing the blood trail.

They looked around a bit to see if they could find her laying somewhere in the woods but had no luck.

I told Bryan we could help later that day if he would like. He said yes so I scheduled him around 6:30pm.

When we arrived, Brian said he had last blood marked at the back of the thicket, so I suggested we start there as I really didn't want to crawl 200 yards thru that thicket if I didn't have too!

Cheri quickly locked on to the doe and led us to a creek. She had indicated the deer had crossed the creek, so as I looked for a good place to cross, I noticed eyes reflecting back at me about 40 yards on the other side of the creek. I told Brain... right there is your deer! He was shocked she was still alive.

I told him go get your rifle out of the truck and we will stay here to make sure she does leave.

The deer never moved and Brian was able to put a follow up shot on this doe.

Cheri was not happy that I made her wait as she whined and tried to pull out of her harness the entire time we waited for Brian to return but she got her chance to bury the doe shortly after the final shot.

12/02/2024

I got a text from Bob Friday night. He said he had shot a buck around 4pm at 100 yards with his 450BM and the buck had hunched up and taken 2 bounds and stopped, then started walking off.

He said he had gotten out of his blind to slip around a small wood lot to shoot the buck again, but once he got around the woods the buck was gone.

We planned to met at daylight Saturday morning to track his buck. We suspected the buck had been liver shot and needed at least 12 hours.

We started our track at 8am in the area that Bob thought the buck had gone. After searching that area and coming up with nothing, I suggested we try the woods that the deer was near when shot.

We skirted the edge and Cheri did not pick up anything. I was starting to think the buck had been missed as Cheri will usually start herself even if there isn't any hair or blood at the hit site.

I told Bob, lets go up to the end of the wood lot, cut in 50 yards or so and walk Cheri to the south and see if she picks up on line. We walked about 75 yards into the woods and I seen her head snap and she turned left down a trail and I could tell right away, she was tracking Bob's buck. She went about 60 yards and we found blood. Shortly after that we found a wound bed.

The blood in the bed indicated a mid body hit. We continued a short distance through the thicket and about another 40 yards, Cheri took me to Bob's buck!

The buck was liver/gut hit so I'm not sure why Cheri couldn't pick him up from the shot site. The wind was blowing good the night before from the field to the wood lot so all I can think is the scent was blown back into the woods and we just never got close enough to the actual hit site. Regardless of how she found the buck she still did it.

11/28/2024

This track was sent to us from another tracker.

Mike had shot a buck at 7:30am yesterday morning. He said he was able to track the deer about 100 yards before the blood had started to slow to tiny drops. He said he found a few puddles of dark red blood in his track. What he described to me indicated a possible liver hit deer.

I told Mike I had a track scheduled at 4pm and we could help him after we where finished with that one. We met Mike at around 7pm and started Cheri at the shot site and she quickly locked onto the buck's line.

About the 350 yard mark she took us to the bucks 1st bed. She took a right turn and about another 50 yards out, took us to a 2nd bed.

After the 3nd bed she started getting very excited and leaned into her harness and started to drag me through the track! Lucky me!

We came to a 3rd bed with a large pool of blood in it. The blood was suddenly wet and I told Mike, I think this deer is still alive. We will go a little more and see what happens but we may have to stop for the night and give him more time.

Just as I was about to tell Mike, we are pushing this deer, we need to stop tracking. Cheri led us to a small group of pines and turned to go into them when her and I met this buck face to face at about 10 feet!

I quickly pulled back on the lead as the buck was bedded facing us and I didn't want him to charge us. Luckily for us the buck was in bad shape and never moved as Mike put a follow up shot on him.

Congratulations Mike on great buck!

11/18/2024

That red dog and her amazing nose, did it again!!

David contacted me yesterday afternoon and said he shot his biggest buck around 5pm Nov. 15th. He said him and his buddy John had jumped the deer a few hours later when they were tracking him and had lost the blood trail and needed Cheri's assistance in locating the buck.

I told him that we could track for him this morning because a track that old, I wanted my dog to be fresh, as I felt like it would take everything she had to locate him with track being so old. I did tell him that the weather conditions over the last few days were definitely in Cheri's favor for decent chance at pulling a line on his buck.

We stated Cheri at 1st blood, which was about 50 yards into the woods from the hit site. She slowly worked out the bucks direction and took us to the jump site. After a few minutes she worked out the buck direction again taking us down the bank of a very deep ditch toward a river.

After about 100 hundred yards, she dropped down into the bottom of the ditch and turned straight to the river, where she found David's buck dead tight to river bank. This buck had hid himself so that if you where standing on the bank of the river, you would have never seen him!

Great job to the long eared dog on a 66 hour old, .64 mile long track and congratulations to David on his buck!

11/18/2024

Me after a long weekend of tracking shoulder shot deer!

11/18/2024

This track will probably be the most special track I will ever do!

I started learning how to train dogs to hunt with my Uncle John on Camp Rd in Sanford Michigan when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I would go stay a week every summer with him and we would work his Walker coonhounds on his mother-in-laws 80 acre farm off Shaffer Rd in Sanford.

One summer I went, there was a hunt scheduled at his dog club, which he took me too. At this hunt I seen my 1st bloodhound and I thought it was just the coolest dog I had ever seen, I knew the 1st time I seen one, I wanted one.

Fast forward a few years, my dad moved to Edenville, which is just a few miles down the road from Sandford, and this area is where I learned to deer hunt.

Friday morning I got a call from Brian that he had shot a buck and had jumped him a few hours later about 250 yards into his track. He said after he jumped him he couldn't find anymore blood and needed a dog to help him.

I text Brian back that I was hunting Friday and wasn't available to track until Saturday. I told him if that worked for him, then send me his location and we would set-up a time for Cheri and I to come track his buck.

He text me back his address, and it was an Sanford address!! I instantly became more interested in this track even though it was 1.5 hour drive to do it. To me, it was home for hunting dogs and deer hunting, and now I had been given a chance for it all to come full circle, and right at "home"!

I agreed to meet Brian at 8:30am to track his buck. I entered his address into my GPS and headed northwest to him. As I drove down his road toward his house, I passed Shaffer Road, soon after my GPS said, your destination is on the left!

I pulled into Brian drive and I realized, I was less than 1/2 mile away from where my dog training career had started some 40+ years ago and about 5 miles from where my deer hunting career had started 30+ years ago!

I met with Brian and we decided we would start Cheri at the 2 track the buck had crossed after being shot. Cheri quickly locked onto the bucks line and took us to were he had been jumped. She worked out the scent pool after a few minutes and took us towards a ridge where we found our last small pool of blood.

After a few minutes she worked out the buck direction of travel and led us parallel to the ridge about another 130 yards, right to Brian's buck!

I can't tell you all the rush of motions I felt finding that buck in my "home" range. The circle had completed!

Congratulations on a great buck, Brian! Thank you soooo much for the opportunity to track him for you!

11/17/2024

Cheri put up 4 out of 6 that she went looking for yesterday.

11/12/2024

Interesting proof of life we received this morning.

This deer was shot at 5pm Sunday evening. This deer only bleed for about 50 yards after it was shot so the hunter called asking for help. Cheri and I arrived about 2:30pm Monday afternoon to track.

I started Cheri at the shot site and she instantly took off in live deer mode. We continued to track this deer for a few hours in the hopes we may run him down. Of course that never happened.

I told the hunter shortly after we started the track and after 4 hours and 3.5 miles that this deer is still alive. She said no way!

She sent me this photo today. The red house is where I finally called the track, as niether Cheri or myself had nothing left in us. Only thing i can think of is the bolt deflected when it hit the deer and hit 1 lung and lodged in the brisket.

11/10/2024

I think we have run 10 tracks with no recoveries in the last week or so, finally got a dead one.

John called and said he shot a buck last night slightly quartering to him. He said he thought the bolt hit behind the shoulder and he felt he had made a good shot.

He said the buck ran hard for about 100 yards then he seen him standing near a creek and then lost site of him.

He found good blood at the hit site and a little more blood about 30 yards out then nothing. Him and his brother search near the creek this morning but couldn't find any more blood or the deer, so his nephew recommended he give Cheri and I a call. We tracked for his nephew last year on this same property.

I had originally told John I didn't feel confident we would find the deer as I thought the shot was going to be to far forward, but I agreed to give it a try for him.

We started Cheri at the shot site and she had us to the creek in about 2 minutes. She was pulling hard for a 26 hour old track so I thought,as I suspected, this deer is still alive.

She crossed over the creek and her body language instantly changed to a dead deer. She slowed way down and kept throwing her nose up, the ear flop kinda throwing up of her head, which usually means she is air scenting the dear. She would move about 50 yards down the line, and those ears would flop again. I knew the minute we crossed that creek and she changed your body language we would find this deer. She proceed 289 yards into the swap right to John's deer.

John had said when we found the deer that he thought we where going the wrong way but he didn't want to say anything. I told him, honestly it wouldn't have mattered if you had or not, I knew she had your deer and I would have continued even if you had said something!

Congratulations John on a beautiful buck!

Good job to that red dog also!

11/09/2024

Proof of life from a track we did last Sunday. This one confused me a bit because all the blood suggested liver hit as it was all a darker red blood and the deer bedded within 100 yards, but Cheri didn't track the deer like it was liver hit. Now I know why she tracked like she did. About an hour or so into the track, she just laid down! Guess she knew it was still alive!

10/31/2024

We got a call from Jared. He shot a buck Saturday night. He said he lost blood on him and wanted to know if Cheri was available to help track his deer.

We showed up to help him Monday afternoon. We started Cheri close to the last blood and after a bit figured out the bucks line and took us to the last blood along the edge of a creek. She then came back out of the creek and headed across a short grass field toward a road.

The direction of the track, the deer's route after being shot and the way Cheri was tracking the deer, I told Jared I didn't think this buck was dead. I didn't believe a fatally wounded deer would have left the thick cover around the creek.

We did check the local bedding areas on the downwind side of them just for piece of mind for Jared, but never came up with his buck.

We called the track with Jared feeling better that the buck probably survived. I wasn't gone 20 minutes from the track when I received a photo from Jared of the buck captured on his buddies trail camera across the road that Cheri had originally taken us to. The buck had been hit in neck and was up on his feet.

10/31/2024

We got a call from Abe on Sunday. Abe said he shot a buck quartering away from him and had hit him pretty far back. He sent me a video of the shot and it showed the arrow entering the deer at the front of the rear leg and going up into the deer to the fletching.

I told Abe, he will die from that shot, but it will take some time. He said he had looked a little for some blood but could not find any so he backed out.

Abe had to work Monday morning so I had him describe to me where the deer went into the woods and I told him that Cheri and I would be there in the morning to track his deer.

We went to the area that Abe told us about. I walked Cheri down the edge of the woods, we passed two deer runs and she checked them both but came back out. When we got to the 3rd run she checked it but this time she pulled me into the woods and across a dried up ditch. She then made a right turn and proceeded another 150 yards right to Abe's buck!

Congratulations on your 2nd great buck for the season to my buddy Abe!

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