09/24/2026
Boone had a blast tracking his first elk the other day. Hunter had shot it late evening the day before and was actually shot by another hunter with a bow shortly after that in the neck. Hunters had tracked the elk a couple hundred yards and started to lose blood. We arrived at 7:00 in the morning with another tracking team, Beau-Dacious Deer Tracking we started right were the hunter had marked last blood. Both dogs started tracking great and Boone was pulling hard, we tracked a few hundred yards until where the bull had gone done a slight slope at the entrance of a ditch where he left a bed and then exited up over the ridge. The terrain and thermals caused Boone to struggle for a minute and then I realized he wasn’t on it and was fighting conditions. A quick reset and both dogs were looking good. Another 200 yards and the bull went down into an overgrown marsh area where there was a thicket, we had confirmed blood to this point and then we heard some crashing and reconized we might have bumped him. After a quick discussion with the hunter we decided to continue to track and get eyes on if possible. Boone led the way like an absolute unit through the thickest stuff you can imagine and didn’t miss a single beat with confirmed blood to the 1.1 mile mark and we seen the bull standing up and bed back down then stand up walk a few feet and bed back down about 150 yards away. Dropped a pin where we thought the bull was and backed out. The hunter wanted to put the bull down right fully so, so he got the wind in his favor and put a stalk on it. After we heard the shot he radios us to bring the dogs in to track as he said he hit it good, 70 yards later we were standing over an amazing elk. Recovery 1 of the season. Boone ran an amazing clean line as shown after the slight terrain struggle.