Sublime Tracking

11/25/2025

Congrats Mathew!

Low low gut hit, rifle
Travel distance 500 yards

11/21/2025

**Whoohoo—100! 🎉**

Ruca made her **100th recovery today**, and this one feels especially monumental for our tracking team. We were lucky enough to recover for a very nice guy whose tribe has used our tracking services before. At the hit site there was just a tuft of hair and no blood. A classic “the deer didn’t go that way” scenario. I could tell Ruca was off after I pulled her from the line—but in true Ruca fashion, she figured it out anyway.

Congrats Mike burke

I also want to take a moment to talk about the journey. Tracking comes with *high highs* and *low lows*. We’ve had some incredible tracks that didn’t end in finding the deer, and others where we bumped a wounded deer miles from the shot location. Remember—we track marginal-shot deer. Most of the time, those shots aren’t fatal.

And yes, we’ve left dead deer in the woods before. It’s a horrible feeling to get that text from a hunter later. But you have to use that as fuel. You grow from it. You keep going. Every deer we’ve missed has taught us something, and those lessons stick with you. I can honestly say I always leave knowing we did the very best we could.

Ruca has passed UBT tests—and she’s failed them too. But we used those “fails” as FIRE. Off-season practice tracks, sharpening skills, learning, improving… and honestly, it’s fun. Ruca loves to track, and I love watching her work.

We are part of a fantastic network of trackers Missouri Blood Trackers Association. This is an elite group full of tracking knowledge. I also started my journey as an apprentice judge for United Blood trackers which is a national based organization.

We wouldn’t be where we are today without awesome mentors Blue Bagheera Tracking andBear The Big Black Dog Tracking.
Sometimes you just need someone to say, “You’re being a b*tch—get over it and go run that dog!

Tom and Mary this ones for you! You have put a ton of time into ruca and I. Im blessed with good trackin friends and a good dog.


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**Cheers to you, Ruca. Here’s to 100—and many more.** 🐾❤️

This picture shows rucas true goofy self and I wouldnt change it for the world. I believe she’s saying “nana nana boo-boo, I got your deer!”

11/20/2025

Congrats Daniel Ley

Just some tuffs of hair and no blood?? Dan wasnt sure if he made a fatal shot on this buck. Deer was at close range and Dan using a .270. I called my friend Blue Bagheera Tracking to examine the hair. As usual she was dead on, rear ham entrance. Exit was just behind the ge****ls. I tell Dan let’s just drop the dog and see what she tells us. Ruca takes to a line, starts winding immediately… dang just an old gut pile. We refocused her on the line. She takes a line, didn’t like her behavior 200 yards out or so. Took the line back and she showed us blood 15 yards off our original line. It was game over from there.

11/18/2025

First buck! Congrats Tristan!

Not a bad Shot! Just a loosey blood trail. Ruca made quick work of the line.

11/18/2025

Congrats Drew Bullard!

Drew arrowed this buck and had gut matter on his arrow, he wisely did the right thing and backed. We took up the track the following day. Ruca did her thang and made quick work of the line. 1/2 ruca roll onto her new buddy.

11/13/2025

Congrats Tim!

Tim arrowed this buck at 15 yards the night prior we took up the track the following morning. Ruca runs the line then goes to a pond makes a sharp left into a field. I spot the buck 30 yards ahead bedded just looking a bit to perfectly bedded. I radio back stating I was unsure if he was dead or not. We approach ruca takes a nice bite on him and he jumps up and stumbles back to the ground twice. He gains his footing and runs. We leave and take the track up several hours later 90 yards to a dead deer this time.

11/11/2025

Let the good times roll!
Congratulations Trent Courtwright!
First bow buck!!!

Good things happen when you give liver hit deer proper wait times.

11/06/2025

Congrats randy!
Liver/ gut, wasn’t dead to long at the 26 hour mark!
Smiles and tongues!

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween !🎃

Youth season starts tomorrow! In fact this is my sons last year to be eligible for the youth hunt.

We will NOT be tracking until my son harvests one.

You can find awesome vetted trackers via the Missouri blood trackers associations website.

Missouri blood trackers association is here to help connect hunters with elite tracking teams across the state of missouri. Our dog tracking teams are here to help find wounded whitetail deer.

10/26/2025

Congratulations Kate! Aaron Bennett

The Bennett family took the blind! Kate took a shot on a beautiful buck! I meet up with Aaron and Kate the following day. We had shared a nice lunch, meet up with their lucky charm Logan and dropped ruca on the track. She made fast work of it discovering a wound bed and straight to the buck. Track took us only 7 mins to recover!

You can check out the story on deercast as well.

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