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We track wounded game animals, mostly deer, with BGS hounds in SE Arkansas and NE Louisiana.

11/01/2026

The B Team was active in West Carroll Parish. My youth hunter Hannah made a great shot but with no exit hole there was not a blood trail to follow in the drought stricken young timber. Ben only took a few minutes to trail 150 yards to a very nice mature buck. Hannah got her first unassisted buck harvest at only 11 years old Congratulations Hannah!!

The B Team
Bryan, Boone and Ben
870-510-2657

10/29/2026

Hello faithful followers. I'm thankful to announce that the B team is back in operation after a 21 day reprieve that I spent in Germany with my breed Club and Washington DC along with my family. I had a great time and learned many things about the Bavarian Mountain Hound and also learned a lot about the founding of this nation in DC and the surrounding area. Boone and Ben were quite ready to see me and I was ready to see them too.
As soon as we got back we went to work. Ben trailed this deer 260 yd before he went into search mode. The hunter which shot this deer Quartering to with a crossbow thought that they had one lung, liver and stomach shot this deer but as you can see that was not the case. He showed back up on camera with only a minor wound. I really thought that we had a brisket shot but turned out it was only a front leg. Good job Ben! This hunter gets to hunt this deer another day.

10/16/2026

Such an honor to be in the very area and mountains that the BGS hounds got their beginning. Bavaria in the Alps. These men have probably forgotten more about training and tracking than I will ever know. Today i was honored to help lay 3 test tracks and tomorrow i will watch these hounds and handlers work. But I can tell you that this flat lander is far from a mountain man. These old legs are tired.

10/08/2026

As some of you know, I am the Vice President of KBGS-GNA which is the Breed Club for Bavarian Mountain Hounds here in the US. I am sitting in the Frankfurt airport as we speak waiting on my connecting flight to Munich. I have been invited to go to Germany to participate in a couple of KBGS VP test, be involved in a Driven Hunt and hopefully track a wild Boar or two. My German friends Sven and Tobias, who are KBGS Judges, are rolling out the Red Carpet for me. I plan to meet some Judges and Breeders here in Germany and of course learn much from the people that have been training tracking dogs longer than anyone in the world. I will not be back home to track until Oct 28. It is my hope that you will not need the services of The B Team until I return. If you do need us I hope you understand and I look forward to talking to many of you when I get home.

The B Team
Bryan, Boone and Ben
870-510-2657

10/06/2026

Friday Oct 7th

The B Team has been in action even though I am behind posting our tracks. Last Friday I got a call from a repeat customer at The Island. His son had sent an arrow through what seemed to be a very nice buck. I will post the shot video in the comments. Be sure to take a look at it before you continue reading this story. He sent me pictures of the arrow. I will be the first to admit that I am not the best at reading the sign on the Arrow with a picture. It looked to me that it had stomach material on it. I later found out that this was true when I did have the opportunity to look at the Arrow. The Hunter's dad called me to ask if I was available to track Saturday morning. I told him that I was available to track but I felt like this deer should be tracked on Friday night. As dry as it is I really did not want to wait 24 hours on such a quality buck. There was an issue with a Friday night football game so we decided to get someone to carry me to the hit site while he and his son was at the football game. A very nice young man met me at The Island and carried me to the hit site roughly 13 hours after the shot. Ben had no trouble tracking this deer. He slowly worked his way through the line of toilet paper that the hunter had marked the blood trail with 200 or so yards to the point of loss. Unknowingly they had bumped this buck approximately 3 hours or so after the shot. Ben took a little time here but continued the track slowly following the trail through a few thickets and about 800 more yards to find this deer DOA. I have included a picture of how the deer made the infamous J hook near the end of his life. Trackers see this several times in a season where a deer will make what we call a J hook at the end of the blood trail. This one was different because the deer actually did a Double J at the end of his Trail to lay off to the side and expire. First time I have ever saw this.

This Hunter did almost everything right. The only mistake he made was going into early. My advice is anytime you think that you have gutshot a deer, wait a minimum of 6 hours before you do any tracking. Go get a hamburger or have a date with your wife but wait at least 6 hours and 8 hours is better. I believe that if this would have been done, this deer would have been found in his first bed DOA but when he jumped he had enough gas to go 800 more yards making it impossible to find without help. We are just glad that we are trusted enough to help with these amazing deer. The pictures don't do this deer justice. He scored 170! What a deer and thank you for trusting The B Team and allowing us to be part of your hunt!

The B Team
Bryan, Boone and Ben
870-510-2657

09/29/2026

The B team was back at it again today. During the night after I went to sleep last night I got a text from a man that I had tracked for before. I'll text him very early this morning and met him about 9:00 a.m.. the arrow looked to be stomach and liver. The hunter said that the deer only went about 30 or 40 yards and stood there for a while before he walked off. This is always a good sign that we have a good chance of getting a deer on the tailgate. Th hunting party tracked the deer last night but lost blood and called for the B Team. Ben was very excited to get another track even in this hot weather. He made quick work of this one. The hunters had actually got to within 40 yards of the deer last night but the deer had taken a hard right and they had continued to track straight ahead and we're not able to find any more blood. Ben was excited to get a short track and this was one fine deer! Total track was 180 yards.

Bryan Whittington, Ben and Boone
The B team
870-510-2657

09/28/2026

After a long summer The B Team was back in action this morning.
I have never seen Ben so ready to track. Our hunter shot this deer late yesterday with her bow. The deer took of running very hard. After a couple of hours the hunters began to track. They found the arrow about 200 yd from the point of impact. The arrow had pe*******on about halfway up it. There was also what appeared to be a nice piece of meat on the Broadhead with dried blood.
Ben was very ready to go so after looking for a little blood at the hit site I started him. He quickly made his way to the Hunters Point of loss. He searched and searched around for about 10 minutes to finally find the exit of the deer which was at a 90° angle of the direction of travel. He had made a hard 90 and the tracking party never could pick up the trail last night. Ben straighten it right out and found this very nice book in the edge of a lake. Interesting thing is is that there was an alligator there watching the dog and the deer. It made me very nervous because I don't want to lose my dog to an alligator.
Total track was only 320 yd but what a great way to start this tracking season!

Thank you Lee and Patty.

Bryan Whittington
The B TEAM
870-510-2657

09/25/2026

Hello friends. Its that time of the year again. Just a friendly reminder that The B Team is ready to help you if you need help finding that trophy doe or buck. This is our 19th season and we are ready to get started putting smiles on some faces and some deer on the tailgate.

870.510.2657

03/02/2026

Hello fairhful followers. As many or you know, Boone and Ben are very special hounds and their breed is rare in the US. Both of my dogs came to me from Germany through KBGS, a Club established in Germany in 1912 to keep this breed pure and within certain confirmation, obedience, tracking and disposition standards. I am privileged to serve as Vice President of the US branch of this Club, KBGS-GNA.
Last week KBGS-GNA held our Vorprufung in Williamson Georgia. This is a Preliminary Test that examines our young dogs in several categories including obedience, disposition, leash work, tracking, ability to focus on track, behavior around dead game, ten minutes Downstay after gunfire and baying live game. It is a stringent test that requires many hours of preparation. It also requires judges. We only have one qualified judge in the US, our President Ken Parker so our Parent club in Germany sent our friends Tobias and Sven to judge our five dogs.
We had two dogs pass with Breeding points and one dog pass without Breeding points.
In case you are wondering both Boone and Ben have already passed this test so they were not tested.
I carried four of my grandchildren to Georgia with me. We had a great time. I carried my camper and we stayed on site for six nights. They worked very hard helping us to stay fed and wash the dishes. They also played hard too. I am so blessed to have such great grandchildren. I wanted to provide a few pictures to show what our week was like. We have lots of fun and made some new friends but the best part of all was seeing some great dogs work! Thank you to everyone that helped make this event possible especially our judges who traveled all the way from Germany!

02/05/2026

The B team had quite the year. We set a record for our team in total tracks taken and total deer found. Here are our numbers for the 2026-26 season.

117 tracks taken. 55 deer found 47%

Of these 117
Archery tracks 32. 17 found. 53%
Fi***rm tracks 85. 38 found. 45%

Of these not put on the tailgate
17 back on camera
7 we believe were Clean Misses
8 were jumped and couldn't get stopped

Notable memories of the year.
*in the previous 17 years of tracking i have only tailgated 1 back whacked deer (shot above the spine). This year we tailgated 4.
*1 deer that Ben tracked about 150 yards and couldn't advance any farther was found 12 days after the shot only a few feet from where he was shot. He was hit right in front of hip and just under the spine. He took many days to expire. A nightmare for deer and tracker.
*18 tracks were finished with a bay and a bang from my old 1911 .45. I am so thankful that Louisiana and Arkansas have made this legal in order to end the suffering of these great animals.

One memorable track after Christmas.
I got a call from an old friend, Jimmy Porter. His friend Phillip had arrowed a deer that they couldn't find.
Ben represented the B team again. Nearly 7 hours post shot Ben encountered this buck who was still much alive. Ben got him to stop twice before the deer headed for the Old Mississippi River Chute. While i was hurrying to catch up with Ben, he put the deer in the Chute. When i caught up to see what was going on I was afraid for Ben's life since i have never considered him a strong swimmer. He looked like he was a mile away but was only about 120 yards. To my surprise Ben drowned the deer. I was hiding and being very quiet because I wanted Ben to go to the other side since he was only about 20 yards from the bank. As soon as he drowned the deer, he circled the deer and headed back to the bank I was standing on. We then began to encourage him and follow him down the bank since the current was carrying him Downstream. He made it just fine. I will no longer question his swimming ability. Good boy Ben.

This tracking season was a very good one. We appreciate every one of you that trusted us to find your trophy. We hope to see you again next year!

One more thing. If we tracked for you this year or in the ast would you please take time to review us on our page please. It would mean a lot to us if you would take time to do that! Thank you!

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