Maverick- Boonefield’s Midnight Tracker

10/06/2023

Mav went to work tonight on his first track of the season. Total tracking was 300 yards to a swamp with little blood. He was spot on! 🐾

08/29/2023

09/14/2022

COUNTDOWN-
1 day 🏹 🦌
Mav is ready to work!

08/31/2022

Mav’s started training for his favorite season of the year. 🦌 🐾 Who else is excited to follow along on his journey this year?

11/15/2021

"The one lung runner" I received this call on my way home from another local tracker who was unable to take the track. It was a local hunter so I told him that I had to go home first then I would be on my way. We arrived at the shot location about six hours after the shot took place. After they lost blood the two guys did a small grid search with not luck on finding more blood. We got on the track where the hunter shot and proceeded to where the hunters grid searched.When Maverick got to the grid search I could tell that he lost the scent just on the way he was acting. I told the hunter to stay put for a minute. I took Maverick and made a loop back where we came from so Maverick would cross the scent again in a 90 degree angle and I would watch for when he picked it back up. As we made it to where I knew the original track was Maverick turned hard right as we crossed the scent again just as I hoped he would, at this point I really held him back on the leash so he would go slower and sort out the grid search from the real deer track. It worked perfectly! As we made our decent off the ridge we started to get blood again ( which is always reassuring). When we got to the bottom of the valley I told the hunter to look at Maverick, his head wasn't on the scent trail....... it was up high and at one point he was standing on his hind legs with his nose in the air. I told him that Maverick smells the deer and it is really close! Sure enough as we got into the brook the deer was laying 15 yards to our left. Total track length was 880 yards with the hunter taking out one lung. Another beautiful deer recovered by Maverick 9 Pointer 176lbs. Boonefield Labradors

11/13/2021

"Forever my favorite track" Last night our oldest son Gunnar had the opportunity to pull the trigger on a big mature doe. With all the rain and wind from earlier that day it was hard to see any tracks in the freshly fallen leaves. We had hair at the shot location but couldn't follow the tracks so we decided to dig into our tool box and pull out our secret weapon......"maverick!" When maverick got out to the shot location i stopped him and got him ready to track, I said the words that he waits to hear......"Ready to go to work?" As maverick began to work he was spot on to where the deer ran. It only took about 35 yards in the the thick sapling to confirm that we were on the right track with good blood! As maverick was pulling hard up the hill the blood became more and more prevalent. As we came into a hemlock opening I saw a white belly ahead and I said to my self I hope thats the deer. Maverick kept going in that direction and at that point about 20 yards i turned back to gunnar and the whole family and said what every hunter waits to hear........DEAD DEER! The emotions quickly over came our whole family in the woods as lots of hugs and tears were shared at that moment. It was something very special that words can not describe, and something that our whole family will always remember! Boonefield Labradors

11/11/2021

11/09/2021

"The Brook Buck" What a night we had last night of tracking! We received a call from a hunter around 430 pm saying he hit a deer 125 yard shot, thinking the shot was a far back behind the shoulder and only finding a small amount of blood then loosing it going into a swamp. We got to the shot location about an hour after the call and maverick went straight to work and was pulling hard right from off the bat! The deer brought us through a small marshy area before bringing us back out the the powerlines where we jumped the deer about 15 yards from where I saw it take off. We decided to pause the track and come up with a game plan. As we were sitting and talking I shined my head lamp into the woods and I could see the deers eyes about 50 yards into the woods then disappeared. After seeing that the buck only went a little ways and stopped I knew he was hurt pretty good. With a lot of coyotes in the area (howling in the distance) the hunter did not want to leave it for the night. So we decided to keep a tight leash on maverick and see if we could get close enough to dispatch the buck. So we started on the track again and the buck took us into another thick swamp with tall swampy grass then out to a brook where it looked like it crossed. I told the hunter to stay at that location and see if maverick would pick up the scent on the other side. After searching for a few minutes on the other side, maverick did not pick up where the buck exited the brooke. We made our way back towards where we entered the brooke and I saw about 20yards up from where we entered the water the buck was tucked under an overhanging hemlock tree with its body submerged but his head up still very much alive. I tied maverick up and had to dispatch the animal. Another spot on track from maverick who bounced back from a rough week last week! Total tracking distance was just over 500 yards with minimal blood. The hunter was very happy and appreciative of Mavericks work saying that deer would have gone to waste if it wasn't for maverick! Boonefield Labradors

11/05/2021

Yesterday was tough day for maverick. We did two separate tracks and ended up with no deer on both. The track pictured was about seven hours old when we arrived. The time we arrived after the shot didn't bother me, the only thing that I was concerned about is how windy and dry it was yesterday. We got to the shot location (first "x" on map) where the hunter had no blood or hair from his arrow. Maverick got onto the scent but wasn't pulling as he usually does. About 200 yards into the track we confirmed he was on the right track with a small blood spot about the size of a quarter (second "x" on map). After that maverick seemed to loose the track, so we circled back to where we had confirmed blood and try to reset him on the track but with the wind all day and being dry leaves we just couldn't get back on the scent no matter what we did. It was a plus that we extended the tracking further than the hunter did but they are not all success stories when it comes to tracking and they are good to share. We ended up just over 2 miles of tracking with no luck.

10/22/2021

Maverick- Boonefield’s Midnight Tracker wishes the best of luck to all the youth hunters going out this weekend! Aim small, miss small. If you happen to lose your blood trail don’t hesitate to give us a call! "When the blood stops, we start!"

10/13/2021

After being out of tracking for two weeks because of eye surgery today maverick got the all clear from the vet to get back into his GUNNER kennels and back to work! "Where the blood stops we start!"

10/09/2021

Four more days of this thing and I will be back in action! Stay tuned!............"where the blood stops we start!"

10/09/2021

Mavericks fastest/shortest track to date! We got the call after the hunter knew his shot was far back into the stomach. After talking with the hunter we decided to to give the deer time to bed down. We arrived about six hours after the shot took place. Maverick went straight to work and found this beautiful doe in its first bed 135 yards from the shot location. Another happy hunter!

10/09/2021

2021 season is off to a great start! Maverick did this track on sept 17th through the deepest water/ he has ever tracked through. The 10inch lacrosse rubber boots were not enough to keep dry. Maverick pushed through the conditions to find this deer for one happy hunter!

10/09/2021

We got this call on November 6th, 2020 after a hunter lost blood going into a thick swamp. We arrived at the location about an hour after the call. Maverick did not skip a beat on this 446 yards track through the thick swamp grass and water to find this nice 6 pointer!

10/09/2021

Here are a few pictures from Maverick- Boonefield’s Midnight Tracker 2020 tracking season

10/09/2021

10/09/2021

09/30/2021