The Blooded Hound Big Game Tracking Service

12/25/2023

A guy we tracked for last year sent us this. He count be more right as Cheri and I have met some really good people along the tracks!

12/17/2023

Now that tracking season is over, Cheri has switched over to her 2nd love. Running the trap line! She was sitting pretty on this beaver dam keeping an eye and nose out for any beaver or otter that may pop up!

11/26/2023

A very fun track for Cheri tonight.

Micheal was out hunting with his 2 grandsons. He shot a doe and him and his grandsons started tracking the deer when they lost the blood trail.

We started Cheri just before last blood and she advanced the track about 150 yards before we found anymore blood. Another 40 yards down the line she brought us to the deer.

These 2 boys were so into every part of the hunt and recovery. It was so enjoyable to see them so interested in every part of the hunt. They even drug it 200 yards out of the swamp for their grandpa!

11/20/2023

Track 2 - Scott shot a buck and said the deer jumped up and disappeared into a fence row. He said he followed the trail the deer went down and thought he had jumped it. He waited a bit and continued to look but he couldn't figure out what way the deer had gone after jumping it.

I started Cheri at the bucks bed and she took us to the deer in short order. The deer had left its bed once again before the hunter was able to dispatch him.

We waited about 15 minutes and continued the track. We caught up with the deer in a cut bean field were the hunter was able to dispatch the deer.

11/20/2023

Cheri girl pulled off a double last night!

Track 1 - Dave shot a buck. He said the buck jumped up and disappeared into some thick cover. He went to look for the deer and couldn't find any blood or hair within 50 yards of where he shot the deer. Cheri locked right onto the bucks track and took us 170 yards right to him.

11/16/2023

Had 2 tracks last night.

Cheri put this nice 8pt up for this young hunter in short order. The buck ran about 200 yards and Cheri had him in about 15 minutes.

Track 2 she could not establish a line on the buck after the hunter jumped the deer.

11/13/2023

Cheri made a quick recovery for this hunter on liver/gut shot.

The hunter knew he hit the buck back a little far so he only tracked about 60 yards to see if he could find blood. He did not so he backed out and called for Cheri to come help.

The deer was shot at 9am so we waited until 8:30pm to put Cheri on it. I started her at the shot sight and she did 1 small circle and locked onto the buck track.

She followed him down a 2 track along the edge of a corn field. After about 200 yards she made a hard right turn into the corn about 5 rows then a hard left for about 30 yards to the buck.

This was a clean non pushed liver/gut shot deer and a typical result when the deer is not pushed. We also didn't find a single drop of blood until we got to the deer.

Congratulations to the hunter on being patient and backing out and on great Michigan buck!

11/11/2023

Cheri and I wanted to thank all the Veterans out there. We would not be doing what we are doing without your sacrifice! Thank you!!

11/09/2023

Track #4 on Monday for Cheri. This one was another interesting one!

The hunter said he shot his best buck quartering to him and he seen the bolt hit center of the ribs. The buck jumped and ran about 50 yards then stopped and stood there for about 5 minutes. He said the buck was flickering his tail alot and his head was low and he noticed the buck was flickering his ears also.

He tracked the buck a few hundred yards the next morning and lost blood so he called for Cheri to come help.

I started Cheri at the shot sight where she seemed to have trouble lining the buck out. After a few minutes she headed in the direction the deer had been standing. Once through that part of the track she started zig zagging the line, which at the time I didn't understand. After about another 75 yards she made a hard right turn and the hunter said... he didn't go that way. We went about 50 yards and found 2 spots of blood. The hunter came over to look and said " hmmm" which I did too. Then I said I think he's liver/gut shot so he may be wandering looking for a place to lay down.

Cheri and I continued on across the ditch and into a quarry down a road and ended up at a pond. She walked out on the edge of the pond, whined a little and jumped in and started to swim across the pond.

I put tension on the lead and brought her back to the shore. She continued to stay nose up and whining the entire 10 minutes it took for the hunter to get there. She then went in the water again so I jumped in also and led her back to shore and along the ponds edge to the back side when we found a doe that had been killed. Now I'm confused because I can't figure out if that's what she smelled or if the buck was back here also. So we searched the back side of the pond and did not find the buck.

We were certain this buck was dead so I told the hunter. Lets go back to last blood and restart Cheri. So we did and as we walked over to last blood she went nose up and started toward the ditch again. I pulled the lead and said come on girl thinking she was going back after the doe again. We got to last blood and she quickly cut back to the ditch line about 100 yards away and made a hard right turn to the buck! Then another hard left into the ditch to another buck!. Turned out I should have not corrected her because she air scented the buck when we walked back to last blood!

We still do not know who the other deer belonged to. What we do know is that the doe crossed the bucks track and Cheri went on her track the first run.

11/09/2023

Track #3 on Monday for Cheri.

The hunter said all he knew was he hit the deer. It ran a little ways and stopped and he could see blood on the side he hit the deer on. The deer than squared up to another buck and chased him out of the field. The buck then walked off into the woods and disappeared.

I started Cheri at the shot sight and she quickly locked onto the bucks track and off we went on steady run.

She ran us all down through the woods then made a left turn into another field and headed towards another set of woods.

We entered the woods and then into a very thick swamp that I had to crawl in several times to get through.

We eventually ended up within a few hundred yards of where the deer was shot at the edge of a corn field where the hunter asked if I thought the deer was dead, which I said no I don't. I don't even think he's hurt to bad as we've been close to a mile and we have not seen him once or found 1 bed. The hunter then decided to call the track.

Which I quickly agreed to after going thru that nasty swamp!

11/09/2023

Here was track #2 for Cheri on Monday. The hunter said his arrow deflected on something when he shot. He said the deer ran and disappeared into the thick brush so wasn't sure where he had hit him.

He was not able to be present during the track so I had him send me a pin to the shot sight with a description of where the deer had gone.

I started Cheri at the shot sight and she started the track zig zagging a line along the edge of the field toward the direction the hunter had said the deer went.

After about 70 yards she turned into the woods and took me toward a ditch line about 150 yards, then made another left turn. She continued on for about 40 yards to the deer.

11/06/2023

Track 1 from Monday

Interesting track this morning. The hunter shot his deer yesterday morning, he thought he hit the deer in the liver area. He tried tracking the deer but wasn't able to track far due to the lack of blood so he called Cheri girl in for some help.

I started her at the hit sight were she quickly locked onto the bucks track. She ran down the edge of the corn about 65 yards then made a hard turn into the corn. She continued to track through the corn, zig zagging and circling before she finally lined the buck out heading toward a wood lot.

We entered the woods along a ditch line and I stopped Cheri to let the hunter catch up to us. Which she was not happy about. We then continued on to a bloody bed and a drag mark that lead us to a gut pile.

Someone had found the deer and taken it. Which was unfortunate for both the hunter and Cheri. Never seen that before!

11/02/2023

Cheri took us to another live 1 today. The buck was shot last night at the red dot, tracked 655 yards to the yellow dot where he was bedded with a doe and we tracked him to the blue dot where the hunter called the track.

11/01/2023

Cheri girl has had a good week. She has ran 9 tracks. She has found 7 of them. 5 were dead and 2 where put up still alive so I called those tracks as we are not in the business of running them down. These bucks are not worth her getting injured. The other 2 were no recovery.

This was her track tonight and she put this beautiful 10 pt up for Pete. The deer was hit in the liver/gut. It was a short 160 yards track and over in about 5 minutes.

Congratulations Pete a fine Michigan Whitetail!

10/31/2023

Hunters are always asking if the rain/snow will affect the dogs ability to track there deer.

This is a buck that I shot on Sunday night. I knew that I hit him to far back and he would need time to die. I also knew that it was suppose to start raining within the hour and rain hard all night long. Which it did until 6am Monday morning.

I got down and checked my arrow and confirmed what I thought I had seen happen. Strait gut shot, so I headed to the house for the night.

I took Cheri out at 11am Monday morning, 17 hrs after the shot and 11 hours of steady rain. I put her on the buck at the shot sight. She quickly lined the buck out 200 yards to his first bed where we found him dead.

So answer is no... the rain and snow Does Not effect the dog. So instead of risking loosing your deer because of the rain or snow coming in, just back out and let him die. If you can't pick up the trail yourself the next morning call a dog in for help.

10/30/2023

Someone is a little proud of herself on this recovery! Liver/lung shot.

10/29/2023

Todd shot a buck this morning around 9:30. He thought the shot was a little back, so he waited 6 hours to track.

He was able to track the buck for about 300 yards when he lost the blood trail so he called for a dog.

I started Cheri at the shot sight where she quickly locked onto the bucks track. She tracked the buck out about 450 yards into a thicket, where she seemed to struggle to figure out where the buck had gone. After about 3 small circles, she found the bucks exit out of the scent pool.

She took us about 50 yards to a wound bed and continued on about another 20 yards to the buck!

Congratulations to Todd on a great Michigan whitetail!

10/23/2023

10/23/2023

After a long run of no recoveries, Cheri got 1 today.

Jim shot a buck last night at 5:50pm. Him and his grandson looked for the deer but was unable to continue to track after about 100 yards, so they backed out and called for a dog.

I started Cheri at the shot sight, 18 hours after the shot and off we went. She took a wrong turn as the buck entered the corn so I restarted her and we literally ran the next 400 yards of the track right to the buck. Which was not an easy task as this corn field was an organic field that had more weeds in it than corn.

The buck ended up being hit low in the gut

Congratulations to Jim on his buck!

10/06/2023

Cooler Temps and rain on the way should have those bucks on the move tonight. If the rain washes your blood trail away... give us call. Cheri will be happy to help you out!

09/30/2023

Good luck to everyone heading out for the opener of bow season. Cheri and I will be available to help find your deer if needed!

09/17/2023

I Took Cheri out on another bear track today. The hunter said there was a small amount of hair at the bait sight but no blood. After a few restarts Cheri took me back into a swamp where she started to get very skidish and moving forward very slowly. Shortly after she started that we found a bed, which had no blood in it, then just a few yards from there we started to find fresh tracks. At this point I was convinced the bear was not hit but we continued the track.

A short while later we heard a noise up in front of us and when I looked through all the brush, behind a pile of dead fall appeared to be a black circle with a brown snout looking at us.

We waited a while and cautiously made our way over to that spot. No sign of blood there either so I decided to call the track. The lack of any blood at all and the fact that the tracks clearly showed this bear just walking along convinced me he was not harmed at all.

Fun... fun time doing the track even though we didn't find a dead bear!

09/15/2023

Who will be out this weekend for the early doe season? Cheri and I will be available to track if needed again this weekend. Good luck everyone!

08/04/2023

Cheri girl looking for all the youth hunters needing her help on September 9th &10th 2023!

06/04/2023

Such a smart girl!

06/03/2023

Y'all better get to work early on those deer this fall... Cheri be getting way to comfy on her couch!

05/09/2023

Cheri impatiently waiting on her first track job of the season.

04/17/2023

I laid this track yesterday around noon before the rain started. I used a hoof with a few drops of blood. Let it age 21 hours then put Cheri on it this morning. She got off on a rabbit the 1st start. I straited her out on that and re-started her. We jumped another rabbit a bit later which she ignored. Not a pretty line but sucess at the end. I just forgot to turn the tracker off. Cheri is the red line and track is the blue.

04/16/2023

Laid a training track with a hoof of a deer I killed last fall for Cheri last night and let it age 15 hours. The dotted line is the track... solid line is her. She just turned 1 today so Happy Birthday hound dog!