11/06/2026
It’s been a very grueling September and October. The education we constantly put out there seems to be ignored. Hunters just won’t stay off the shoulder, hunters won’t show patience and hunters do like to fib. “I didn’t push that gut shot deer” has turned into long frustrating tracks ending at property lines 900 yards away with the hunter’s boot tracks in the mud even though they “didn’t track the buck at all”.
Just a hint, if you are going to pull my leg don’t wear boots with very distinctive tread!
We had been on a “losing” streak. I don’t know if you can technically call it that since the Proof of Life photos have been rolling in but in the moment it feels like a loss.
During this streak we received a call from a good customer. He told us that his son hit a solid Harrison County, WV buck back. In fact he told us that intestines were hanging out and he knew that tracking that deer was not in question, so he called headquarters.
This isn’t a long story, nothing spectacular. No hand to hand combat. No puzzle at the end. We put Jesse on the track and she took it 495 yards from an open strip bench, down a brush choked hollow, across another frost covered field, through another brushy hollow, here we found a bit of blood confirming the line, then like a rocket into an overgrown field with blackberry briars straight to this solid buck! It had a bear trying to make a meal of it but that didn’t matter to Jess!
Bottom line? Don’t push, back out and observe wait times and always, always tell your tracker the truth!
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