Sublime Tracking

11/30/2024

I’ve met a lot of these trackers, awesome teams and even one of my favorites from sw Missouri Tebo Creek Tracking. This truly just scratches the surface in tracking. It’s a short video, give it a watch.

In the rugged wilderness, where every scent tells a story, humans have an extraordinary partner—the K9. With noses attuned to even the faintest trace of bloo...

11/23/2024

My forever hunting buddy track
My nephew Dominic Maniaci
20 hours post shot

Dominic picks up the blood trail the following morning. He has a blood trail for roughly 150 yards to point of loss. Ruca did her thing in a deep ravine. The doe had traveled up the ravine, ran a flat then back down the ravine we go. I believe the doe was pushed by a few coyotes on this line due to rucas behavior. Track distance 850 yards.

Congratulations domino!

11/20/2024

** Youth hunter*** 🚨 Epic TRACK! 🚨

Congratulations Bowen!!
Age 8
30-30
50-60 yards
First shot -Front legs
Second shot (read below)
Track distance, Almost a mile!

Cory (bowens dad) gave us as a call as we have tracked for him a few times. Cory states my son shot a buck this morning and the buck rolled got up and ran into the thicket. As Cory was watching with binoculars during the second shot he could see the antlers of the buck, second shot appeared that the buck dropped. They then waited for a doe to come as they were sure the buck was dead on the second shot. They looked for him and no blood or deer to be found.

We drop ruca in the plot where the deer was shot the first time, she makes her way over to where the second shot was placed. Got blood! Awesome ruca takes a line then hits a small food plot, take a line from there on fresh tracks. She doesn’t look right so we circle around to the second food plot, she now takes a different hole into the woods , blood! So ruca takes us down the line spotting blood, we find 2 bloody beds. We keep going, she now hits a river slough! Ruca jumps in the water and try’s to swim over. Cory spots the buck stand up and hurtfully start walking. Cory goes up to grab his small duck boat. We head over to the island. I bring ruca to where we seen the deer stand up. Note: this buck climbed a 15 foot river embankment wall with a shattered front end. Rucas head down and on this buck hot! She takes us to the other side of the island to a rocky bank on the Mississippi River, the buck then turned back to the island. We track another 50 yards and the hunter sees him bedded. Takes the 3rd shot! Rolls the buck and he’s now back up and still going. We track after the shot another 90-100 yards to bowen’s Buck! He’s finally dead!

Turns out that bowen’s second shot hit the bucks g3! Everything about this was just awesome, bowen’s patients, Cory’s relentless pursuit mixed with being a stellar dad, ruca was just on fire and ready to chew on this buck!

Missouri Blood Trackers Association
Missouri Blood Trackers

11/20/2024

***Wildwood mountain buck***
Congratulations dean!
20 yards
Compound
Grim reaper mechanical
Stomach shot
(Arrow had a smell of sweetness and urine)
Track distance 500 yards
Bloodless (rained on line post shot)
24 hour post shot track

Dean took a shot on this buck and witnessed the buck walk off down the ridge. He didn’t see the buck walk up the next ridge. Dean left his arrow at the impact site and gave us a call. He knew the drill!

We place ruca at the hit site (steep ridge). She takes the line down to the bottom of this ridge and crosses the run off. Going straight up the mountain, it’s a ridge but felt like a damn mountain. She then doubles back as I’m sluggish going up this sucker then travels a popular walking trail.. she’s grabbing some scent from somewhere. I would rather her follow the line. So we opt to turn around where we crossed the walking trail, straight up the mountain we go as we did originally. We top the mountain, winds are whipping she’s bracketing the top. She takes us another 130 yards on top of its peak. She then heads down the one side 20 yards to find this buck in root wad hole! Dean even had trouble seeing the deer as ruca was on it, he was tucked in there. Originally, I thought this deer was intestinally hit. Turns out it hit the lower spot of the stomach. Deans buck he would have went much further if pursued any sooner.

Missouri Blood Trackers Association
Missouri Blood Trackers

11/19/2024

Congratulations Chase McChristian
Compound
37 yards from blind
Target buck!
20 hours post shot
Buck travel distance 3/4 mile

Chase took a shot on this buck after patiently waiting 20 minutes. The deer after the shot left the plot and headed down the ridge to a small creek system. Chase choose to wait a few hours before pursing. He followed a good blood trail roughly 200 yards and discovered a couple empty bloody beds and backed out. The deer wasn’t in sight, we arrived 20 hours post shot.

Ruca took the known blood trail straight to the empty beds, this buck did figure 8s in the bedded creek area. Took us a little bit to figure out the direction of travel this buck took. She crosses a fence takes me down a trail a few hundred yards. We arnt seeing any sign but looks good, so we go another 100. Still nothing, I opted to restart at the beds, she takes us up hill to a drop of blood and crosses the fence, she takes us parallel to the previous line (50 yards or so) then meets up with the same line we were on just 50 yards further from where we stopped earlier. 🧐 so which trail was the right one?? I’ll never know.. anyway we find some blood heading down the ravine, we cross the creek and starting heading up the next hill. On top of the ravine laid chases target buck, still very limber. Buck travel distance was roughly 3/4 mile. They are tough this time of year! 

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!

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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.