Western PA Blood Trackers

30/11/2025

Little dude got it done today. His uncle and I are super proud of him!

05/11/2025

If you're happy with your harvest, that's all that matters. Big or small. This was needed, I think for all of us here.

05/11/2025

I guess if you don't look like a hot mess after tracking....

She's so embarrassing 👀😬 she's gonna get a 7f smoothie all over. I can't handle the hair.

Truthfully, we didn't need her, but she needed this.

02/11/2025

AAATTTAAA BOYYY REDDDD‼️ Another beautiful Pa Whitetail is on the tailgate at the nose of Ole Red💪💪 This deer crossed the road a couple of times and died at the TOP of a huge steep hill. Again proving that dying deer will run uphill if they have to.

02/11/2025

Have you ever seen the hillsides around the Pittsburgh rivers? The Allegheny and Monongahela join below Pittsburgh to form the Great Ohio River.

There’s a reason there is no development on those steep hillsides!

After two night of torrential rains with a brief let up last evening giving hunters a chance to get out!

I got the call soon after dark as the rain started again. Gut shot and he didn’t track it five feet! Perfect right? Well he sent me the address and one thing I always do is check the terrain around the address. Baldwin a suburban Burrough of Pittsburgh. I look and see it’s a straight shot down to the Monongahela River! Deer are not goats but sometimes they will do goat things.

From the hit site we do progress and advance but soon Luci is checking herself ( going back to establish the correct line again! At the same time thermals are coming up the steep hillside. After ten minutes of circling and not wanting to take the wrong path unintentionally I decide we are going to take the wrong path intentionally! I’m going to pick and chose where we go down and when we will go back up! That’s unless her head movement tells me otherwise!

I knew this deer was dead and I wasn’t about to leave it behind! I know my dog’s abilities. She can track but in some situations we have to do some thinking for the dog. I decided wind searching this steep with cliff drop offs was our best option!

For over a hour and a half we worked it! When I couldn’t feel the wind I would shoot some powder in the air as even the slightest air movement matters.

Up and down with occasional swirling wind. We finally get to a spot above a heavy thicket you couldn’t see through. And Luci gives me a definite indication! The one I’ve been looking for! I tell the hunter I’m 90 percent sure this is your Deer! I know now we have to get below this thicket to prove the deer is not in it.

On the way to do this we are edging the thicket and we come to a dead hollow tree with a hole in it about a foot off the ground. And of course Luci sticks her head in it! All hell breaks loose! She is going nuts and I hear growling coming from within the tree. Mind you we are on steep ground and I’m traversing as safely as I can so I can’t just run over and get her out of that tree!

It takes a minute but I get down to her. And pull her out. And I take a peek inside and it’s a small raccoon. I think about letting her kill it . But then I don’t want her fighting in confined space plus we are getting paid to find this man’s deer! So I pull her off.

10 feet further down she forgets about the raccoon as we are below the thicket now! And refocused on the task at hand! Wind scenting and increasing speed though not vocal. Drop down another 40 yards and what do I see? Our hunters buck!

Sorry we did pose with the deer . We had a 900 foot climb back out of that hell hole ! This. Deer was 80 - 100 yards from where she winded it! I’m happy we can do this but sometimes it’s a lot of extra work! Hunter also gave me a nice compliment saying man you really know your s**t and your dog! It’s nice to hear. Especially after I told him at about the 40 minute mark that we are not tracking we are grid searching by air scent !

02/11/2025

Poodle and deer season🤣

28/10/2025

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After yesterday I decided to take a partial day off from tracking today. We did one track today! We took a 30 + hour post shot track gut shot. Luci stuck to it like a magnet! Right through the 30 hour line and where the hunter jumped it at the 8-10 hour mark!

Yesterday I was questioning her ! 2 suspected gut shots that she literally never gave me indication on? Both we doubled wait times.. any other trackers want to chime in feel free to! I certainly couldn’t make sense of it. Only thing I can think is the dominance of the bucks shot and where in the guts they got hit. My thinking is this they are are hit back a bit more not center mass. They don’t know there are on their way out of this life. Not stressed and there for not putting it the total death scent I so often tell hunters. They ( after shot ) go about their business as usual. Chasing Doe’s working scrapes. We had arrow confirmed gut on one. And it is possible the hunter misjudged his shot on the second. It just seems odd to me that a well seasoned dog like mine would not give me a good indication other than what she did on these presumably gut shot deer. She showed more like alive and well and not mortality wounded. But then today she tracked this one down at the 30+ hour mark phenomenally ?

28/10/2025

Good boy, Hank!

Hunter’s cam kissed the rail of his tree stand fouling this shot. 17 hours old when we started at last blood, buck did not go in the assumed direction at all. Hank ran the line beautifully.

24/10/2025

Galaxy is still anticipating the season if we(humans) can get it together🤣

She's a little upset we've had to pass up on calls, but work and hospital visits have been kicking our butts.

We are super excited for all of the people that have been able to recover so many deer, you guys are killing it!

Hopefully we can get back into the game soon(life pending, of course) but don't worry, we have a slew of reputable and trustworthy trackers we'd love to send to you!

24/10/2025

24/10/2025

19/10/2025

AATTAAA BOYYY REDD‼️‼️ This lil girls smile says it ALL! This was her first buck ‼️ It felt so good to yell back and let them know we found him. Her father said he didn’t sleep all night because he knew she would be crushed if we didn’t get him. If Red is on the job and it’s a dead deer he’ll be on its tail with the quickness💪💪