Deer Tracking Dog: Zeddy Wild

07/08/2025

Keeping Zed in shape till tracking season! I should be running too 😆.

11/13/2024

Zed tracked a gut shot buck we gave him 14hrs and he took up the track with ease. About 300yds in he starts to air check and I'm like "game on" where is he, we go up hill and just over the top we come to a dead doe!! No holes in it but it has trama to it's hip and internal damage. 400yds from a road but sure enough a road kill. Now he certainly does not want to leave this deer and is quite happy to have a few chews on her.. tough situation but I pull him off and we go back to last known blood.. He picks it up again and doesn't falter 900 yards without a drop to a bed with blood! Then another and 2 more.. We hit 300yds past the first bed and I put my hand in the the last bed and can feel a bit of warmth.. We are pushing this deer.. we decide to back off and try it again in am.. sure enough we come back in and Zed picks it up and walks us back down the hill towards the road. Dead buck!! Hit was low guts and for reference give these deer plenty of time (20 + hrs )to expire or they will go a very long way. Hit was with a x bow and expandable.
Side note I've never seen a buck with a small body , maybe 150lbs with this size rack, thinking much older deer , huge bases and longer nose.. Congrats to the lucky 70yo hunter that impressed the hell outta me by keeping up with Zed n I !

11/02/2024

Crazy last few days. One doe lost in heavy cover, Zed aced it in 5 min. Two buddies hunting within 300yds of each other both shoot bucks almost simultaneously. Dry conditions and crossing blood trails made it tough. Tried to track the buck we thought was fatally hit first and it ends up making a big loop after getting close to the bigger buck. After .8 mile we realize it was moving in front of us so we back out and try for the other bigger buck. We start at the hit site and there is no sign of a hit. Zed says follow me boys I got this. 50yds in with 0 blood there's the broken arrow, decent blood for another 80yds then a bed. Brown grainy gut blood. I'm like oh boy dead deer! On the track this deer did some crazy loops and ended up going straight up to the same area that we tracked the smaller buck to "multifloral hell". Now is when onx comes into play. Crossing blood trails and huge scent bomb of gutty blood had Zed coning like crazy trying to figure out the end game. After several loops and Zed going right back past us several times he picks up a new track that is just outside the hell hole of multifloral rose bush we were in.. it's lighter red blood so unsure if it's the big boy or the smaller guy.. Zed pushes to the end and finds a stud of a buck for NY state land. The guys end up going back after we took the big boy home and found the smaller buck not far from the last blood we had.

Today we get a call for a questionable hit deer with a very light blood track. We get there and Zed is like ho hum where's the blood guys? Swirling winds super dry hot conditions. We take him to the area of last blood the wind is at our back and Zed wants to enjoy the day by taking a little stroll with us thru the woods he's not interested in tracking... I say let's get down wind of this area and do a couple of big loops. We get about 400 yds from last known blood and Zeds nose goes up and boom it's on. We go a short distance and the buck is the dead. Sometimes air checking is the only way.

Side note the doe was barely hit in the low chest distance traveled 350yds The smaller buck was single lung thru the leg, .8 miles. the bigger buck was second to last rib thru liver and lots of guts. Crow flight 200yds but we traveled 3x that finding him.. Last buck was mid body all guts no liver. 900yds ..
Very fat deer this year with abundant apples..

10/25/2024

Another fun morning for Zed!

10/10/2024

Zed what's on your face??? " Found it Dad!"

05/17/2024

Thankful for a great night on Cayuga lake. Blood Run Fishing wire line, Ito Flies custom paddle, https://www.purpletacoflysupply.com/
Custom fly. Team Dreamweaver dipsy diver
Personal best finger lakes laketrout. 36" 19-6lbs. Thanks to Mike Burt and David Perry for everything else.

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02/02/2024

Who's out with their Lacy looking for early sheds?

12/06/2023

I get asked about success rate and I wanted to say that with the popularity of trail cameras we can see bucks that survive. Zed has matured into an amazing tracking dog. I can truly tell fairly quickly if he's tracking a wounded deer or a dead one. He can tell the difference in blood by its smell.. Lung/ muscle/ liver/ stomach/ paunch. 5 of the bucks we tracked this year showed up alive on camera. His body language and pull usually dictate the outcome. Another year of crazy tough deer. Apologies to anyone we didn't get to. Little photo drop of some of bucks that are still alive. You can see the wounds on most.. Best of luck for the rest of y'alls season!
Oh one other cool photo how would y'all assess this one, note the fence..

10/30/2023

Called to track a mature buck shot "right up the butt" sounds fatal but things aren't always as they seem. Rained all night on this track. Zed started at the hit site, open field and lots of other deer traffic. He put his nose into the large prints and off we went.. the field we went thru had multiple deer in it and he had to check several exit trails to confirm it was the right deer. After crossing a road we got into a super thick area that he did a few small loops in. He hit a trail going out of there and had a nice pull on the rope. At about 600yds I was a bit worried till I spotted a drop of blood under a leaf.. my boy was on it! Still no bed at another 400+ yds and we came thru a ravine and up a hill. The buck looked to have bedded up below a blow down, lots of scent but Zed was having trouble finding his exit route. He figured it out and the buck had jumped the blow down and cut back on his own track. Then it took us up the hill and back into the ravine. I spotted the buck ahead of us at 75 yards. He was frozen staring at Zed. Ryan was able to stalk into 30yds and get a kill shot! The initial hit ended up being on the inside of his rear leg and barely into the guts. Upon interior inspection it was definitely not a fatal hit. The buck then went about 80yds up hill and expired.. Zed got his heart treat at the end!!
Overall track 1.75 miles! I love this dog!!

08/30/2023

Zed is getting ready for fall!! That Lacy look!