Mecan Springs Deer Recovery

21/11/2025

Here is my yearly post saying I will NOT be tracking opening weekend for gun. As we all know opening weekend of gun season brings fun with family and friends that I don’t like to miss! I apologize to everyone in advance that we are unable to help. Shoot straight and good luck to all!

16/11/2025

We have been out tracking everyday making happy hunters!!

12/11/2025

These intestinal/gut hit deer are extremely hard to track right now. I don’t like it. That’s all I got 😂

11/11/2025

Full day of tracking yesterday! We ended the day going 4-6 should have been 5-6. Yep you heard it. My first track I left a dead one. It happens. It sucks. And it never gets easier. We just came into a heavily gridded property that I couldn’t connect the pieces on. The hunter ended up finding him yesterday evening.

Track 2 pretty straight forward gut hit that was bumped and went about 400 or so is my guess

Track 3 was a rodeo. Deer had done a backtrack that took some time to figure out. He bedded at roughly 200 yards I assume was bumped and then continued to travel a literal mile where I got to see Rex show a hunter really what a tracking dog can do. Probably his best work this year.

Track 4 was an intestinal that we were riding the struggle bus on. We found where he had either bedded/stood by just luck… we didn’t track there. Stumbled on it. But I had a direction. I decided to cross a county road and do an arc a couple hundred yards from that point. It was my best guess on where he could have gone. Walked into the woods from the road 200 yards away from last spot of blood and see a spot of blood… what? How did I manage that two times 😂 I continued to walk into the woods towards where the deer had came from and found a pile of his intestines… I knew at this point it was gonna be game on. So he went to the road walked the ditch line for about another 100 yards shot across the road and went through someone’s yard dying within 30’ of the road 600-700 yards away from the hit site. Unreal. So basically what happened is… as soon as the intestines fell out of the testosterone driven buck he then knew he was hurt and we were able to track him. The only catch with tracking is these deer have to know they are hurt!!

Track 5 I honestly don’t know if he hit the deer. He said he shot a deer couldn’t find arrow. Couldn’t find blood. Couldn’t find anything besides a running track down a roadway. We were not able to figure anything out here. Just gave him peace of mind!

Track 6 the hunter had tracked and lost blood around a creek edge. We tracked another 200 to a beautiful buck!

Congrats to all that got it done!

08/11/2025

We are still alive and out finding the elusive big bucks! Reach out if you need some help!!

05/11/2025

Went tracking up north with a buddy last night!

This buck was hit in the intestines and traveled well over a mile from being pushed. We jumped in somewhere near the end and started tracking. At first Rex lined out but it just didn’t seem right to me so I took him back for a restart at the hunters point of loss. This time he went the same way for a short distance and picked a different trail. About 100 yards later we found a spot of blood! I would say another 100-150 we had his buck! Zero chance this buck is found without Rex. Shot 38 hours earlier and still pretty limp! We guessed he died within the last few hours.

Remember to give these deer plenty of time!!! If you hit them in the stomach or intestines you really should be giving them 24 hours this time of year.

I’m home with sick kiddos during the daylight hours here! If you need any help I’ll be booking tracks for tonight!

04/11/2025

02/11/2025

Some tracking fun this morning!! I had to stop video because of a property line… but we did get him at 700 yards picture in comment. Arrow deflected into back ham and out intestines. 100% clean track not pushed. Dead in his 4th bed at 700 yards.. welcome to the rut!

02/11/2025

Had some fun yesterday!

Pictured first the hunter had reached out at 10 am on 11-1 saying he hit a buck the night prior in the guts.. and with the rain they had no blood… So they wandered around for a few hours with no luck.

We started tracking at about the 27 hour mark. We started at the hit site with about 20 yards of known travel. Rex took a few minutes to pick the right line out but once he did we were off to the races on this one. He had gotten hung up at about 350 yards where the deer had bedded and i assume he got bumped out of. We got caught in a bit of a scent pool I let him circle around for about 5 minutes before I did an arc around and found his exit. Back to the races and another 350 yards later we had his buck! Zero chance this deer was seen again!

The other buck, nothing too crazy with! A buck given time dead in his first bed at about 200.

Kind of a little suprised on the lack of calls yet.. How has the movement been in the woods???

01/11/2025

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