Post by whiskey on Mar 3, 2011 20:35:06 GMT -5
Beanie is a 2 year old Fiest/Jack Russell/Multi Mutt. I noticed that she had a good nose when she was about a year old, so this last deer season I decided to see if she was any good at blood trailing. I shot a doe that I watched run about 150 yards and pile up, so I went home and got Beanie. She trailed the doe perfect! I got the opportunity to put her on 3 more blood trails before season was over. 1 was a short trail of about 100 yards and she did perfect again. Another was gut shot doe that had gone about 200 yards and bedded. She trailed right to the doe, which jumped and ran out of sight, eventually crossing a creek. Beanie tracked to the creek, and across it, but we didn't recover the deer. The last one was a neck shot deer, that was muscle hit only. Beanie tracked blood for close to two miles. Every 300 to 400 yards we would jump the doe, but the game warden asked me to keep trailing and keep pushing to work my dog. The doe had been sick, so they weren't worried about recovering it for meat. Beanie shinned and tracked close two miles. She was still on trail, but it was late at night and we were all exhausted. I am glad to have a blood trailer in the house.
She looks like she would keep a squirrel up a tree all day too!
