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Tuesday morning found us headed to the Fenelton area. A local hunter was in his stand Monday evening as this buck came i...
10/22/2026

Tuesday morning found us headed to the Fenelton area. A local hunter was in his stand Monday evening as this buck came into range. The deer was close, but quartered towards him steeply. He was able to sneek the arrow in tightly behind the right front shoulder. The arrow exited far left side low and he could see that he got a complete pass through.
After waiting until dark, he climbed down and was able to follow blood down the trail for about 100 yards. After that, the blood trail ran cold and he decided to back out. (Smart move)
He gave me a call and we decided to wait until the morning as it was going to be cold that night and we weren't sure if the arrow got into the liver or just one lung.
We met up at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday morning and headed towards his tree stand. Ritter quickly found the shot site and started down the trail, almost running as fast as he could LOL. At the point that the hunter lost the blood trail, Ritter made a hard right and continued through a greenbrier patch. Once we were through that thick area, I saw a white belly and the left side of a rack sticking up underneath an autumn olive bush. At 8:07 a.m. Ritter found the buck.
This one worked out exactly how we want them all to. It was 27° when we found it, and it's body was still warm to the touch. I am glad that this hunter decided to BACK OUT AND WAIT!

Another one on the board for the Fur Missle
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We took a call from a local hunter on Sunday evening. His son shot a buck at 6:30pm. The shot was thought to be low an...
10/20/2026

We took a call from a local hunter on Sunday evening. His son shot a buck at 6:30pm. The shot was thought to be low and forward so they gave it a couple of hours. After dark, the tracking crew started in and the trail quickly ran dry. There was very minimal blood, and a spot of gut matter just beyond the shot site, then....nothing...
The crew made the correct decision to back out and call for us to come out. We discussed all of the pertinent details and decided to wait until early Monday afternoon to start tracking the deer.
At 3:00pm Monday afternoon, we met the hunting party and made our way in. I started Ritter at the shot site and after smelling everything that he needed to, he made his way to where the buck left the plot and entered the thicket.
Ritter started down a slight grade out of the food plot just to the right of a pine tree. He circled around to the right side of that tree and quickly made a 180° turn and was tracking the buck to the left. The young hunter told me that he thought he might have saw his buck run this way after the shot, so my confidence was high that Ritter was on the right trail.
As Ritter meticulously worked through the thicket, I was scanning for any sign that the buck went this way....blood, hair, intestine, kicked up leaves, broken off branches.....i wasn't seeing anything. I couldn't find any indication that the deer went this way, but I could tell that Ritter was confident.
He was working hard for every step but he was steadily advancing the track....his body language ensured my confidence and I could assure the hunters that he was on the right path.
Ritter dropped down into a steep, dry creek bed and I couldn't see him anymore.
As I checked my Garmin that connects with his collar, I could see that he was stationary and not moving. That's a good sign for the tracker as it usually means that the dog is on a deer....
That was the case! As I made my way down the steep bank, I saw Ritter standing on top of this young man's buck!
I am so proud of this dog! I love finding deer for people, especially for the kids!
All smiles from this one. Glad it worked out

We took a call from a local hunter that shot a buck on Saturday evening at 6:50pm. The buck was working through a fresh...
10/20/2026

We took a call from a local hunter that shot a buck on Saturday evening at 6:50pm. The buck was working through a freshly cut corn field, as he made his way in front of the hunter. As the deer worked his way to to around 35yds, the hunter got ready for the shot. At the shot, the deer ran about 20-30 yards and hunched up with his head down and tail flickering, then walked into the woods. The hunter got down from his treestand to inspect the arrow. He saw that where the buck was standing a large puddle of blood with little bubbles was left behind. The hunter started tracking blood for about 75-100 yards and the trail ran cold. That is when he made the call the following morning.

We discussed the details of the shot and made the decision to give the buck 18hrs as I felt that we had a definite stomach shot on our hands. At 1:00pm Sunday afternoon we met up and made our way to the shot site. Ritter started off strong, quickly working through the first 75yds. The hunter had last known blood marked and Ritter was working the opposite direction. I corrected him (rookie mistake- don't do that, Shawn...) and made him turn towards that last known blood marker. He quickly went into search mode and was just bouncing around. I could tell that he wasn't tracking the deer so I looped us back around to where I felt that he was confident. He quickly started tracking again and made his way opposite of that marker and into an overgrown brush field. Ritter worked up through the field and as I just finished relaying to the hunter that "deer will tuck themselves under these multifloural rose bushes" a buck erupted out of the one in front of me. An inspection of the bed revealed blood in it....we just jumped him.
I saw the buck jumping up and running low to the ground and when he did, I noticed the wound on his right side was low and back. 18hrs post shot and he was still alive....
We backed out and made a game plan to come back in Monday morning for the recovery.
We met up Monday morning at 8:00am and made our way to the bed that the buck jumped from. Ritter made QUICK work of things and this time it was uneventful. 7 minutes and about 85yds later and the hunter finally got to put his tag on this one. The buck didn't go far from his first bed and I am thankful that Ritter was able to turn him up again.

This first October cold front is going to have the deer on their feet.We have been on a string of shoulder shots recentl...
10/17/2026

This first October cold front is going to have the deer on their feet.
We have been on a string of shoulder shots recently and haven't been able able to turn any of them up...STAY AWAY FROM THE FRONT SHOULDER....your arrow won't pe*****te it, and it won't die. Far better to aim back instead of forward.

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10/16/2026

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