Spring Valley Tracking and Game Recovery

11/21/2025

Scenting conditions were great today. Dani had two recovered before 10 am. Linda and Jimmy took a non fatal neck shot for quite some distance.
With gun season only 2 days away, remember, we will not track on public land during legal shooting hours. Wait times are still going to be a priority. Our dogs safety is our outmost importance. As well as ours.

11/14/2025

This hunter contacted us after making what he believed was a good shot, but being in a swamp on public land he couldn’t find a blood trail to follow. Dani made very short work of it. He was right. He had made a very good shot, just no blood until the last 20 yards. 150yards to the recovery.

11/14/2025

We got a call the other day from the same road we had just recovered the young man’s first deer. This gentleman had shot the deer in some CRP and his last blood was out in a cut soybean field. Dani and I tried to locate the track, but could not. After evaluating the landscape I made the decision the deer most likely headed north west to some timber. I gave Dani the command to “check”. She checked 3 trails before locking on to one. 400 yards later. She was chewing on this great deer.

11/08/2025

We have been really busy this week. Putting many deer on tailgate for hunters This morning was a special one. This young man bought himself a compound bow this week. He practiced all week. Last night on his first sit ever bowhunting, he shot this deer. The shot was back. His dad and him tracked it for just a little ways after four hours. They couldn’t proceed very far because they were at a property line and they were losing blood. After obtaining permission from the neighboring land owner, they reached out for us to come and track.
Heck of a first deer!

11/03/2025

What a day!!! Dani went 4 for 4 and we are both exhausted. These hills up in Crawford, Vernon, Richland counties are brutal. These deer are mixed bred with Billy goats I think.
Give us a call if you need help. We cover all of SW Wisconsin.

10/27/2025

We got a call last night from a gentleman that runs a drone deer recovery business. He had shot a deer and tried to locate it with the drone. With the dense vegetation and still a good canopy of leaves, he came up empty. Dani and I took up the track at sun up this morning. Just over 1000 yards we had the deer for him. Fun day.

10/22/2025

Calls are starting to pick up with this cool, rainy weather.
Linda and Jimmy Dean got to help this young man recover his first deer and Dani and I got to keep this gentleman’s streak of never losing a deer since 1988 alive.
Be safe out there and if you question your shot, do not be afraid to reach out. We are always here to help in any capacity we can.

10/06/2025

Congratulations Mike and The Tracking team. Thanks for following up.

Shout out to Sean Timmens of Spring Valley Tracking and Game Recovery. Sean was helping this Hunter with a night track. Unexpectedly they bumped the live deer from its bed. Sean made the proper call to back out. Unfortunately, his schedule did not allow him and Dani to follow up the next morning. That’s where I came in. This morning shortly after the rain stopped we took the track from that bed to the hunters deer 70 yards in an awful tangle of thorned vegetation. This hunt had an extra special meaning for this hunter. Reagun and I are proud to have been a part of this. Congrats to the hunter.
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Hardtrigger Gundogs

09/29/2025

It felt like we were in south Texas today. The hunter made the shot last night, and then had meetings this morning. We weren’t able to put Dani down on it until noon today. Very hot and very thick brush. Thankfully it didn’t get very far into the timber before it laid in its final bed. It had some flies on it and after Dani got attacked by ground bees a year or two back that were on a deer, she didn’t want to get too close to it.

11/12/2024

Dani made a hunters day. She found one of the best ones of the year today out in western Wisconsin. Deer was recovered out of 7’ switch grass.