Sublime Tracking

11/11/2024

Congrats Jack Lafary
Elevated
Compound
Gut

What did Jack do? He checked the arrow and backed out! With Jack doing all the right things and backing out, this lead to a recovery! These bucks are a walking hospital this time of year. If bumped the odds of recovery goes down not just because of the dogs ability but due to the distance a gut shot buck will travel. In most cases off of the property and onto a property that we arnt allowed to track on. Be like jack, back out and give a local tracker a call! Trackers can help educate on wait times even if we don’t track it. Advice is always free. This track was 22.5 hours after the shot with around an inch of rain.Track distance 400 +/- yards.

11/07/2024

What a day! I got to go and watch my trackin buddy Bear The Big Black Dog Tracking do some work! Then Tom even let me run some of his tracks! Went 2/2 today, ruca banged them out on her first lines. She even found a matching set of sheds on her 2nd track!
Congrats Craig and Doug.

11/03/2024

Meet kenny and his awesome buck!

Compound
Scapula
Rage hypodermic

Kenny gave us a ring, I was already running on empty from tracking the night before and hunting that morning but he was close so we gave it a go! They had lost blood pretty quick and the buck was out of sight fast. Ruca works out the hit site and ducks a fence. Found a bit more blood then she takes me down a cut road. Kenny is confirming blood behind us. Ruca then stops and puts her nose into the thicket from the road. Buck jumps from his bed, we follow. She then takes me a few hundred more yards to another fence line, she committed. Looks right to me but no blood at all even at the fence. I want to go back to the bed and check it over for blood before crossing the fence. We go back to the bed no blood 🤔… he let us get that close… let’s she what she does.. goes back to the exact fence spot and commits under. She’s now sitting there on the other side and won’t come back. Let’s go! So we do, through some cut grass fields. She jumps him again! So we wait a few minutes and here we go again. Another several hundred yards later to a buck that is just done but not dead. She sits 10 foot from the buck as we wait for Kenny for the follow up. Almost 1 mile only 100 yards of blood at the beginning.



Trackin dogs put them on tailgates!

11/02/2024

👻 🦌 🎃 Halloween buck!

Congrats Dawson!

30 yards
Xbow
Mechanical
Deflection off leg/lower shoulder into low abdomen.

Dawson gave us a call on the evening of Halloween. He sent a good video of the buck trying to get to cover after the shot. They waited a bit and took up the track. When they had stepped into the nasty thicket the buck jumped from his bed. They backed out, ruca and I showed up a few hours later. Didn’t take long to get to this awesome deer. Ruca took the line great and reached the buck quickly. This one is a special one as my nephew Dominic Maniaci are buddies. So Dominic joined the track! Dawson also owns a Taxadermy shop!Back Forty Taxidermy , go check them out!



Tracking Dogs put them on tailgates!

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween!!! 🎃 🦌

The hunting holiday! Good luck everyone!

When in doubt back out and give us a call!
314-422-1387


10/20/2024

Congratulations, Eric!

From saddle elevated
Grim reaper mechanical
Step shot angle, close range
Shot time 7:50 am
Track start time 6pm
Liver - gut

From a high saddle and a steep angle, Eric released an arrow at close range around 7:50 AM. The arrow hit, and Eric noticed gut material as the buck slowly made its way across a cut field and into the next block of woods.

Instead of pushing the buck further, Eric wisely backed out and contacted us. When we arrived, we spotted two doe near where the buck entered the woods. We started Ruca at the point of impact. She initially followed the wrong line into the timber where the does had gone, but quickly looped back to the correct path. This time, she followed a 480-yard line straight to this beautiful whitetail. Along the way, we found several wound beds but little to no blood in between.

10/16/2024

Track 2 of 2 today.

30 yards Xbow
Heavly QTR away
Arrow entrance near rear leg, arrow did not exit and hit the opposite front shoulder.

10/16/2024

🦌 Huge buck down! 🦌

Track 1 of 2 today.

Pictures really do not this tank justice!

Post shoot track time: 13-14 hours
10-15 yard shot
Compound bow
Mechanical head
Elevated

Congrats Nick Lenzenhuber!

#1 thing is that nick treated the track correctly.
Nick had seen the buck run off and stand about 60 yards from him and walk off. They waited a few hours and checked the blood trail. Got to a point of loss and backed out and called a fellow tracker(Tom). He was busy on another track so I took it up this morning. Ruca did well, picked an exit from their point of last blood and then banged out a 538 yard track. No blood was seen from the point of loss to the buck. Awesome deer, you’d have to see this deer in person to appreciate the size of this deer!

Today I got rolled on!




Missouri Blood Trackers Association

10/10/2024

Tuesday evening track.

Doe
Quartered to
30 yards
Fixed blade
Flat, no elevation.
Single lung, liver, gut, broke rear leg.

Damon Wendt had us track earlier in the season, he gave us a call again. He couldn’t advance the blood trail. So we took up the track.He had thought the deer laid down In a larger crop/crp field. We take ruca up the line, let her work where the deer had went. She then dove into a nasty barrier sounding the wood line, she looked very committed, I find a small speck of blood while I try to manage getting my self through the vegetation. From there we find only one more speck of blood but she looks committed. A hundred yards or so later, she gives me her proxy alert. J hooks to the deer.

The hunter even let my buddies over at WorkinGround Game Recovery run the line. They did great!

10/03/2024

Crossbow bolts can be very misleading!

Meet ruca’s new buddy Bradley Morse!

Xbow
30 yards
19 hours post shot track

Hunter did the right thing and left the woods after the shot last night. The hunter and his very nice father took a look this morning and searched the area where the buck had run off to after the shot. They couldn’t come up with any more blood. So they opted for tracking services with our team. We took up the track, ruca took the line right out of the plot, she didn’t care about foot traffic. She hooked a right running adjacent to the hill side the hunter watched the buck run up. I asked if they had looked in this direction, they hadn’t. We find some blood, it was game over from there. Ruca runs up the hillside and j hooks into the bucks dead bed! This is typical for deer to j hook and look back at their wounded trail. The general consensus through the tracking world is that deer do this to watch their trail and can escape before a pack of coyotes can get to them.

Note: Check the bolt photos! Mostly fat and some blood. Don’t trust them for a dead or alive indication.

Missouri Blood Trackers Association 💪

10/01/2024

09/29/2024

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09/29/2024

Bear The Big Black Dog Tracking Tom Monehan are my hero’s track.

Our tracking village is very strong and I’m super grateful for it.

This morning we took up a track on a gut shot doe. Ruca did well, got distracted on an old carcass. She finally lined out, we get to around the 500 yard mark. I get hung up in some nasty stuff so she comes back to me. There is blood everywhere, first I thought she had just been licking on the Deer. No! She had a cut on her ear, my mind goes a bit blank. I hold pressure and call Tom, I knew he was close. (Still wouldn’t have mattered to him) he grabbed some super glue and was there before we knew it. Tom fixed Ruca up for me. We monitored Ruca while the hunter went to go look down our line for the deer. Hunter couldn’t find anything, Tom and Bear took up the line. The doe hit the same fence that I think Ruca got injured on and it was game over from there. The deer was about 80 yards from were Ruca got injured.

It’s more than finding a deer, surround yourself with good people. Thank you Tom and Bear for always being there for us.

Note: Ruca seems to be doing fine. We are taking a few days off to get her healed up.

09/26/2024

The Bump and run… sit and wait buck

Rucas new buddy Conor Malloy

What a crazy track!

30 yards
Elevated
Mechanical head
Shoot was thought to be Lungs with 8 inch’s pe*******on.

Took up the track roughly 5 hours after the shot. Ruca did her THANG! She trailed the buck from the hit site, confirmed blood near the 150 yard mark. We missed the first turn *handler error my fault as usual. She wanted to restart back at last blood so we did just that. She then rocked out a line of 850 yards to the first bed where I watched the buck stand up and take off. We continued the Track. We advance another 780 yards to the next bed. Had to deal with a property permission break. She’s right back to work, crosses a heavy creek a lil blood confirmation. Advance another few hundred yards. This time she’s with in 15 yards of the buck. Damn! Jumped him again! We need to back out quietly. We do a big loop around to avoid jumping him again. On the way back we connect to the original blood line roughly 100 yards from the hit site. Ruca goes into an odd pointe… the buck is laying down within 5 foot of Conor his son Tristen and I. Damn! Jumps again, so I back out wait 3 1/2 hours in a parking lot. Take Ruca back to the last bed. She takes us roughly 120 yards to the bucks final resting place.
(It was a liver hit with little pe*******on)

Ruca really showed me her maturity on this track!

These guys were fun to work with, thanks for letting us be apart of your hunt.
!, Missouri Blood Trackers Association

09/20/2024

I don’t normally share wait time illustrations because in my opinion, they’ve been mostly in accurate. This one though is a really good illustration of wait times and arrow description.

Wait times are in my opinion, one of the most important factors in recovering your game and not having to call someone like us. Remember kids if you go in to early and jump your deer it's going to run to Kentucky!

09/19/2024

Rucas new buddy Damon Wendt.
Single lung, liver.
Shot range 8 yards

Damon followed the trail great but couldn’t locate the deer. He contacted Blue Bagheera Tracking but she couldn’t get to the call soon enough, worried about the heat and meat spoilage we got there as soon as we could. This deer didn’t travel far from last blood and was tucked away into a small grassy knoll under the cover of a tree thicket. Damon mentioned that he must have walked by this deer several times. How the grass was not disturbed, I believe she crawled into her final destination.
Thanks for letting us be apart of your hunt.

Missouri Blood Trackers Association

09/13/2024

Deer season is here! Hunters are dialing in their bows, prepping gear, and checking cell cams before they ROLL out of bed. Ruca is ready to ROLL! Good luck, stay safe, and don't hesitate to give us a call at 314-422-1387!

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09/12/2024

Only the BEST!!! lets go TAILGATE those deer!

Missouri blood trackers association is here to help connect hunters with elite tracking teams across the state of missouri. Our dog tracking teams are here to help find wounded whitetail deer.