Oskar deer track - for a Stickbow guy!

[Ryan Rothhaar]

We finally got to find a deer for a traditional bowhunter! (other than family)  

We've been taking tracking calls with Oskar now for 3 years, and get plenty of calls from "hi-tech" type bowhunters, but very few from traditional guys.

Yesterday morning I received a call from Mike in Terre Haute.  He had shot a deer around 9 am and was worried that the arrow was a bit farther back than he would have liked.  The arrow passed through and broke off, the front half showed sign that looked like a liver hit.  I convinced him to wait on us before looking for the deer (my wife and I both work in Indy, have a 1 hr drive home, then another hour to Mike's place).  We could arrive around 630 pm.

He was biting his nails, but Mike stayed out of the woods and we got to put Oskar on a non-contaminated blood trail.  When arriving at the stand he showed us the front half of the arrow...with a big Snuffer on it - I like the way this guy thinks!

We established first blood and the direction the deer went after the hit, and Katia and Oskar took the track.  The deer didn't go real far (150 yards or so) - thanks to the hunter backing off and not pressuring it.  Mike and his buddies would have found the deer without the dog, but probably would have been an hour or so looking due to the thickness of cover and amount of blood sign.  The GPS showed that it took Oskar and Katia 8 minutes to find the buck.

Mike was tickled with his dandy late season buck.  The gunners have been at it in Indiana for 2 weeks now, so a good buck late season with a bow is a tough challenge here.  Unfortunately he didn't have his bow for pictures, but he said he shot it with his old Bear Kodiak that he has had for many, many years.

Guys like this, and these kind of tracks, make all the work worthwhile.

Added bonus was that it was Katia's birthday, and this is about the best present she could get!  We were planning to go out and celebrate, but she said she'd rather track.

Congrats again, Mike!

Ryan

The happy hunter and his buck:


 

The tracking (and dragging) gang:


 

[oldskool]

[Rob W.]

 good stuff!

I wish I lived closer. I would just like to see a good tracking dog in action.

[Randy Morin]

Sawweeet.  Man Ryan that sounds rewarding. Something I want to do some year is get a weiner dog and train for blood.  Getting a Pointer puppy this year (in 1 month). It was hard to choose as I'd love to have both but cant at this time.  
Great work and congrats to all involved.
 

[robhunter]

Way to go Oskar! Congrats Mike,great buck!!

[TURKEYFOOTGIRL]

Good job oskar!  Can't wait to start get started training my tracking dog.  Thanks for sharing

[drewsbow]

very nice all the way around      

[stykbow67]

Very cool, I noticed they finally made legal to use tracking dogs in Nebraska this year!

Steve

Congrats to Mike on a great buck. And to Osker for a fine job of tracking!

Bisch

[DannyBows]

Excellent Buck, Excellent dogs, Excellent story!    

[eagleone]

Nice work!

[Hawkeye]

Very nice buck!!!

Oskar is my HERO!    

[Mike Bolin]

Ryan, congrats to your team on a job well done! Wish I'd known you were gonna be over this way. I know and have shot and/or hunted with all the gentlemen in your photo and a finer group would be hard to find! Mike

[Bladepeek]

And a Teckel does it again! Love those dogs.

[joekeith]

       

[pdk25]

       

[Orion]

   

[huntingarcher]

Can't beat that!Great job to the tracking wonder and the rest of the crew.Oh and nice deer  

[Big Ed]

That is awesome, I wish PA would allow tracking dogs!!

[Joeabowhunter]

So cool!!!!