Rough Edge Wounded Deer Tracking

Rough Edge Wounded Deer Tracking Wounded deer tracking in KY. Utilizing a dog (Boone the Teckel), to help recover your trophies from the field. ABTA Started ✅️
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🐾Boone's first official track!🦌We were supposed to take two tracks yesterday afternoon for some guys but, they both ghos...
09/09/2026

🐾Boone's first official track!🦌

We were supposed to take two tracks yesterday afternoon for some guys but, they both ghosted us. What better way to break the ice on the first real deal, than tracking the owner/handler's deer.

This deer offered me a 28 yard, quartering away shot, which I decided to take. I knew the shot wasn't going to be ideal because of the quartering away. However, it is a very lethal shot. I took my best aim at that "Aiming For Exit" phrase that I could. I waited 15min to get down and inspect my arrow. I didn't get a full pass through, but it buried up into the fletchings. The arrow broke about 30 yards after he started running. I found both pieces of my arrow and followed the blood trail slowly. I tracked him approximately 145 yards and then I lost blood (go figure.) I knew I hit him in the stomach on entry and figured I at least got one lung on the exit. I immediately went home and grabbed Boone.

I started Boone at the hit sight, gave him his tracking command, and he was off. He followed the blood trail exactly where it lay, up until I lost it. From that point on, I had to trust everything we've worked so hard on. I had to trust him. He picked up blood around 25 yards in front of where I lost it. We continued through the thickest mess there could be. I found more blood a long the way but I was watching him work. I'm stumbling, trying to get through all the branches and bushes, and I happen to look up and 30ft ahead of me, Boone had his nose on my deer! First official track, resulted in a recovery!

Weapon: Compound bow
Broadhead: Sevr 2.0 Hybrid Ti
Shot Distance: 28 yards
Shot Angle: Quartering Away
Age of Track: 1hr
Length of Track: 220 yards

Everyone around must be shooting straight, which is great! If you do need us, don't hesitate to reach out! Boone is read...
09/07/2026

Everyone around must be shooting straight, which is great! If you do need us, don't hesitate to reach out! Boone is ready to get on the deer. We will travel up to 75 miles any given time! Anything further would be be time dependent as I have a full time job. Stay safe. Shoot straight. Hope everyone has a great and successful season!

09/04/2026

It's finally that time of year. Opening day of KY deer season is tomorrow!

Go ahead and get your closest tracker saved in your contacts. I am on a group chat together and communicate regularly with several other trackers across the state. Tracks that haven't been taken, come through the group chat for everyone to see.

I will be hunting every afternoon myself. IF you need me, TEXT me. It's the easiest way to communicate and keep everything organized. I will send you a picture of a sheet with some questions to help me analyze everything. Bare with me and others on response time as well. We get swamped really fast. Due to the extreme hot weather, myself and others will only be tracking late at night or very early in the morning!

Lets talk about shots. Broadside is always ideal. Next, would be a quartering away, aiming for exit. Please don't take any other shot. There are too many variables that factor into it. STAY OFF THE SHOULDER. After your shot, wait at least 30min to get down and inspect your arrow. Make this a habit! If you suspect a shot that's back or low, just mark your hit sight and go ahead and back out. I know it's tough to do but, it gives the best chances at recovery. If you advance the line, take it slow and mark any blood you find. Definitely mark the last blood you find! Don't grid search and don't get a party together to search either. Both of those make the situation harder. Take pictures of the blood you find.

Be honest. Be humble. Shoot straight. Stay safe. Hope everyone has a great and successful season!

08/30/2026

One week away! Short practice track to end the training season. It'll be the real thing next time we suit up.

08/23/2026

First video of Boone and it didn't go as planned 🤦‍♂️ I recorded with my phone and cut the video off about halfway through trying to get him untangled. Then towards the end he wanted to mess around and play in the field 😒

We still got work to do. Obedience and overall distractions have to improve, which they will as we work more together and he matures more. However, the adolescent stage is approaching and that will be an obstacle we have to overcome as well. All in all, I'm proud of him, he knows what he's doing, and we can't wait for September 5th!

18 days until season is here! I'm ready to hit the woods and contrary to what Boone's face shows, he's ready to recover ...
08/18/2026

18 days until season is here! I'm ready to hit the woods and contrary to what Boone's face shows, he's ready to recover your deer if need be!

Been a couple weeks since we trained. Weather hasn't cooperated and I was in Michigan all last week for work. Went out y...
08/02/2026

Been a couple weeks since we trained. Weather hasn't cooperated and I was in Michigan all last week for work.

Went out yesterday afternoon and laid a line. Hooves were at their end; this was the 8th or 9th mock track with them. Let the line lay and of course mother nature put her input in on it. It rained three times between when it was laid and when we ran it. Then the last 75 yards of running it, it started pouring down.

Boone got a little crittery (we're working that out) in a couple spots and he didn't take my exact path the entire way but he knows when he's on it and when he's not. When I give him, "Back to work", he comes back to the line and goes on. I swear he's messing with me, seeing if I'll let him goof off or not. In the end, deer in the hands of hunters is what matters.

I really wish this app was more accurate but it's all we got to show our training. As always, hooves only training. No blood (we never use it.)

It's been pouring down rain and storming the last week or so but, the weather decided to give a break. Back to practice ...
07/13/2026

It's been pouring down rain and storming the last week or so but, the weather decided to give a break. Back to practice for Boone and I!

The hooves are towards the end of their life so why not make it more challenging by letting it age longer?

The thing about a new dog is, you're going to walk extra steps in that first season. Boone is still figuring out everything and I'm still getting all the reads on him. I am okay with all that and this dog is getting better and better.

Hooves only. NO blood. We don't train with blood.

Boone still isn't 100% on his new kennel but he'll get used to it! He's going to be riding in style and will be super sa...
07/10/2026

Boone still isn't 100% on his new kennel but he'll get used to it! He's going to be riding in style and will be super safe when we're driving. He's still got some growing to do and he'll fit in there as intended

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