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Deer recovery service for hunters mostly in the central & southern Illinois region, but will travel up to four hours away and if we are available.

Over a decade of experience! Our hounds have high drive and love to track wounded deer! We provide deer recovery services to hunters to assist them in finding wounded deer. I have bow hunted 20+ years and know the gut-wrenching feeling of losing a deer. Nine years ago I hung my bow up and I trained my bloodhound, Dio, to recover lost/wounded deer. Fast forward to today and we’ve recovered 100’s of deer for hunters. Do we find every deer we track? NO, some deer we track are not mortally wounded! We (Team Dio) will make every attempt to find your deer, if your deer isn’t found you can be rest assured that the deer is likely yet alive, PEACE OF MIND!! You can contact me at 217-821-5838, text is best due to signal issues at times. Just as a note, if you feel you have a bad hit, give it as much time as possible (we have no issues with a 24 hr old track 52 hrs is our oldest recovery), avoid stepping on the blood while tracking. If you lose the track, MARK THE POINT OF LOSS WELL. Then backtrack beside the track as best you can, so as not to falsely mislead the dog, also immediately acquire permission on the neighboring property in case we have to continue the track there, IT’S THE LAW! Oh Good luck and be safe this season, and if you would need us we would be glad to help, and hopefully recover your deer.

11/01/2026

Happy Halloween!! Beware there are some monsters out there running abound in the woods.

Good luck hunters, rut seems to be picking up a bit. Bucks are getting amped up and are perhaps the strongest they have ever been, since they haven’t been pushing too hard yet. Perhaps think about extending post-shot wait times to prevent jumping the deer. Remember, A DEAD DEER GOES NOWHERE!!! However if it’s a Zombie deer (rutted up buck), it may be anywhere.

10/31/2026

Can ya guess what this girl just did? Story and picture later.

10/29/2026

Where in The Land of Lincoln is Team Jewel?

10/29/2026

The Illinois basketball team is known to be in the Big Ten, but Team Jewel is now in The Big Twelve! Highlights and picture to come later.

Corn Dragon in The Wagon. Good job Miss! 🐾💎🐾

10/29/2026

This is Gary blood tracking without Jewel. 😂

Anyhow, what an experience for this young fella. Good stuff!👍👍

10/28/2026

Deer are tough, we all know this, this is an example of one such buck. This was the second buck recovered by Jewel and Gary the other day.

Details are as followed;
The hunter stuck the deer approximately 15 yards broadside with a bolt which had a mechanical broadhead on it. As it often happens and was in this case, the hunter never can never tell me where the bolt actually stuck the deer. Crossbow bolts fly extremely fast and are extremely hard to see through the scope after the bolt leaves the crossbow. The hunter went to the hit site a couple hours later, finding the bolt which had passed completely through the deer. The hunter also found a significant amount of blood and then continued to follow the blood trail for a little over 400 yards to a road. The hunter had no permission to be on the property on the other side of the road. The hunter then called Team Jewel, I informed him that he would have to get permission from the landowner on that side of the road. The hunter did contact that land owner later that night and was granted permission.

The following morning the hunter continued the track on the other side of the road through a set of woods, to a disked up bean field. It was at this disked field that the hunter had difficulty seeing the blood. The hunter then tried to follow the tracks of the deer in the field, but said it became extremely difficult to follow the tracks of the wounded deer due to the abundance of other deer tracks present. It was then the hunter decided to call upon Jewel to take up the track for him.

Gary and Jewel arrived a little before noon, I was at work and couldn’t help. Gary informed me that he started Jewel near the road on the other landowners property. Jewel quickly tracked the deer through the woods to the disked field. Once in the field, Jewel didn’t miss a stride. Jewel worked through the disked field, to the woods on the opposite side of the field. Once in the woods on the opposite side, Jewel went some 40-50 yard into some tall grass where the hunters buck lay deceased.

This deer traveled a total distance of almost a half of mile. The entrance wound on the deer was low and behind the front leg, however the bolt deflected and traveled through the deer hitting the front leg on the opposite side. It appeared that the artery on that opposite front leg had been damaged which led to the deer expiring.

Another Corn Dragon in The Wagon for Miss Jewel.
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Be sure of your shot. Nothing is more expensive than regret than regret.
-Fred Bear

10/27/2026

Is she an inside dog? YES, she is family and has her own couch. You can tell it’s “her” couch by that slobber mark near her mouth. 🤦‍♂️

We just got home from a track and is Jewel snoring away. Jewel knows to rest up when she can, she’s on call 24-7, never knowing when or where she might be going next.

Bucks are starting to get a little more active, romance is in the air.

10/26/2026

And she’s still at it, another Sunday evening deer tagged.

10/26/2026

Jewel is out bright and early this morning, finding those Sunday hit evening deer.

10/26/2026

Where in The Land of Lincoln was Team Jewel traveling through today to a track.

On today’s episode of Bonanza, Hoss Cartwright, AKA Festus Easley cleans out the buffet at the Ponderosa!

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Watson, IL
62473

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(217) 821-5838

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