Steadfast Big Game Recovery

04/20/2026

Spring and tracking. Definitely got a bit distracted laying lines thanks to all the turkeys in the area. All the dogs did great with the feathered distractions. Spring is here. Finally!? 🙏

04/06/2026

Halee babe was out finding deer vs eggs today and ended up earning her ubt 2! Super huge thank you to Tarin Viney (and your family!) for taking time during a holiday to test us. And for putting up with the fun/shenanigans that is the Halee and I team.

Thanks to Mike Luhman , David Little, Geri Lynn Mortenson, and Tom Waste for laying us lines! It takes a village. Appreciate you!

01/04/2026

Thanks Joe for a late season opportunity to help out. And patience with lil man. Much as we want our dogs to be perfect every time, the reality of tracking is sometimes dogs have to get something out of their system first, before they settle into work. It was a beautiful Christmas Eve morning.

11/20/2025

Halee babe was out making friends today and stealing hearts. Literally and figuratively. Left picture is her at 5 months, and the right one is this morning at 17 months. Good job girly.

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

#50

11/11/2025

Happy Veteran's Day to my husband and all those who have served or are still currently serving. We love and appreciate you all!!
Also grateful the hubby is back in the US this year and we are able to celebrate together this afternoon with another good friend.

11/08/2025

Some tracks you'll never forget. This was one of them. Nick knew he hit his buck, but had zero blood to go off and no arrow either. We made a plan to go in the next morning.
Got there and put Halee on the hit site. She tracked out the way they saw the deer run, but her body language bothered me. Come to find out that turkeys had rototilled our line and even worse, we caught up to them right as a landowner on a neighboring property came out to ask what we were doing. Nick went to talk to him while I sat H down and let her settle her noggin (this is the first time she's run into turkeys, let alone tracked a line that had been wrecked by them).
Nick finished talking to the landowner and we continued the track. Halee continued the line, but was tracking in the same direction as the turkeys had run. I told everyone she was in for a correction if she was turkey hunting. Another hundred yards or more and she brought us to a bed with the first blood we'd seen the whole track. After we all stopped inspecting, we look up and there is the buck, another 30ish yards out.

What makes this track so bittersweet is that this is the last year Nick will be hunting this land. It's all marked off and taped into tiny lots for tons of houses. It is an eerie and heartbreaking feeling tracking through woods you know will soon cease to exist. I am so grateful we were able to help Nick recover what will be his last buck here. Thank you for having patience while H picked through the track. And for not laughing too much when I had absolutely no clue where I was. 😅❤️

Congrats to Nick on one hell of a nice Buck!