"It's been hard to find a reason to smile the last few years but today your dog gave me a reason too"

Story by: TJ Reily

The Nose Knows Game Recovery

"It's been hard to find a reason to smile the last few years but today your dog gave me a reason too"

This is the reason we track for hunters. This man was a hunting guide in Ukraine on his 2000acre mountain property he worked so hard to buy. While on a fishing trip out of country with his family the war breaks out and he loses everything. Being an amazing hunter he was able to get this guy on high pressured public land.

Originally thinking this was a shoulder shot deer with little blood to track we had low hopes of recovery. Being new to this I made the mistake of going too early in the morning. Everything had frost on it trapping the scent making it impossible for Diesel to track. She winded multiple dead animals. Once the frost was gone we restarted her and she took a line amazingly for the first time that day. We passed through a few bedding areas that took a couple restarts but shortly after that we found this 11 point monster of a buck!

Coyotes chased this guy for a while and did get the back legs. But the hunter was still able to keep the rest of the meat.

Deer's traveled distance was around 650 yards from the hit site and was a liver shot. Almost no blood to track because the chest cavity filled.