Stewarts Blood tracking

12/01/2025

A day this young hunter will remember the rest of his life! Great pictures! This really is what it’s all about! Congratulations to all involved….

11/30/2025

Luci was tracking this buck step for step…. Till she wasn’t…. I’m in a love hate relationship with the wind! The second her head goes up and wants to leap into the direction it’s coming from, ya just don’t know what we will find! Many times it’s our target animal. But in the past we found live deer ( I can normally tell though ) gut piles , the wrong dead deer, if its not our target animal then we have to go back to where she left off tracking.

So i told the hunter to stay right here. Off we went ! Luci’s actions told me this is likely the target we were looking for . So we continued with the wind in our face. After about 175 yards i spot the buck laying down in the bottom . I yelled up to the hunter that he could advancedown to me. And pointed across the creek! There’s your buck.

Im always more satisfied with tracking right to the deer. But Luci likes to cheat the wind!

In the picture the wind is in my face and we came from the ridge behind us, some 175 yards to the right. Had not the wind been in our favor she would have tracked it step for step. congratulations to the hunter!

11/29/2025

We will be available during the gun season! Please continue to observe your wait times. And most of all be aware of your surroundings and be safe! Best of luck to everyone..

11/26/2025

Maybe this is the one that cached the deer we tracked up there?

A local hunter bagged a record-setting bear at a state park. Here's how long it took him to get it out of the woods with the help of others >>> wpxi.tv/4om5J1g

11/21/2025

Got this call last night! The hunter called me right after he took the shot!

His description of the shot : 62 yards , crossbow, ( practices at 100 ) hit a little back.

He watched the buck for quite awhile as slowly walked away only to bed down within sight.

At one point the hunter explained he thought it was going to expire right there. Eventually the buck rose from his first bed and walk off again only to bed again within sight.

At this point the buck even laid his head on the ground and closed his eyes. The hunter believed the buck was again going to die right there.

However several deer then came into the field. A doe even went up to sniff the buck.
The buck was not alarmed however things soon changed!

A smaller buck then came into the field. Immediately the wounded buck attempted to rise but fell right back to the ground.
His second attempt he made it to his feet and slowly walked away to the wood line. Tail twitching side to side.

Sounds easy right?

One of those where you think “will find him just inside the wood line” Nope!

I made a mistake or two tracking this one. First mistake was letting the hunter tell me where the deer entered the wood line. Instead of letting the dog show me!

So we spent the first 45 minutes checking areas the deer didn’t even exit to.

Back to known spot we know the deer was. Luci takes the track up into the woods and makes a right turn soon we come to another bed with blood in it! Now I know we are in business!

However it’s so fricking thick and luci getting tangled and the Fat old guy on the end of the lead having to break brush. We get off the line and circle back to our ride back to the trucks.

By this time I got sweat dripping off my ball cap. We’ve been at it nearly two hours. We are all about to call it! Then I remembered I knew this deer was dead and not wanting to leave it behind in the woods. I said let’s try it one more time! The 70 year old hunter said I’m game! We might not find him but it’s not gonna be for lack of trying !

I told myself if Luci shows me that last bloody bed again I’ll follow her where ever she wants to go! The direction is all hers to determine…

I have to keep up best I can ,easier this time as I already busted through once. Soon we are on that bloody bed again !

I give her plenty of slack to prevent tangles in the lead in the thickness. I do my best to keep up slowing when she slows and keeping up best I can at times!

Finally we come to a clearcut I have not seen before. And Luci works down a quad trail. All of a sudden she’s on her hind legs in the wind! Getting excited zipping back and forth.

Little did I know that fine Pennsylvania buck was a mere 10 feet away laying dead! I was first to see him. I turned to the hunter and said he’s right there! He walked around me then turn back to me and I swear he teared up! We shared a hug and a hand shake! Praised the lord ! What a way to end the last day of statewide archery !

11/19/2025

Go Bonnie!

2025 Pa Deer Hunt (Triton vs Bonnie the Bloodtracker) ...

11/19/2025

Get it girl!

11/18/2025

Awesome team right here! Congratulations!

Hildie joined the century club a couple tracks ago. 100 recoveries. About midway through the season I lost track and told myself that I wasn’t going to look until the end of the season. We missed the early season this year (I think we’ve only been here for that once). Then I tried to blind myself in one eye and lost a week. Then we hit a rough patch of non-recoveries. I knew that if I was watching, we would get to 99 and then go on an 0/10 streak 😆😭. And I would make myself crazy for no reason.

Proud of us and really proud of this sweet, amazing dog. PA has a shorter season than most, and ours has been cut even shorter a couple years due to circumstances. There are no “known dead” among the 100, no tracks for me or friends & family. Not that there is anything at all wrong with those - they are great experience for a young dog. We just didn’t have any local hunter friends then. Hildie has hundreds now ❤️. Didn’t count my best friend’s son’s rifle buck, as much as that one meant to us personally, or the one where I let a young Hildie go hot from the hit site only to get a call from the hunter that his dad sees the deer 😂. But we do enjoy the occasional layup as karmic payment for the stellar work that Hildie does on so many unrecoverable deer.

This recent picture captures what it is really all about though. Mom was away and dad wanted to do everything possible to try to recover what would have been his son’s first buck. And teach his young son that you do everything you can out of respect for that animal. So the little one came along for the ride. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be (we’ll have to settle for two recent youth recoveries). Hildie tracked beautifully through a light thicket that had been heavily searched, following the path it took and showing us blood. But we ultimately ran out of space and I suspect that buck kept going.

Can’t thank enough the over 200 hunters who have trusted us to try to give them answers, if not a recovered deer. Didn’t always succeed, but always gave it our very best effort.

Next stop, 200/500. 🐾🦌

11/15/2025

The curse has been broken! After going 0/13 then an additional 0/6 with finding the wrong deer and many confirmed alive. And Jumping a few ,We finally ended the 0/19 streak!

When it ended I raised my head to the heavens and spoke out loud Thank you Lord!

11/12/2025

Seems like forever since we recovered a deer! Where have we been? Oh we’ve been out there! 0 for forever it seems! A record 0/16 . With a few POL’s (proof of life) then a few track till you jump it! Thrown in ! Heck we even found a deer that ended up not being the deer we were tracking! That will be another story at a later date.

I took my birthday off! Just to reset my mental focus. At one point I considered pulling off the road and letting luci chew on fresh road kill! Hahahaha .

Today’s POL came quickly came only a few hours after we tracked it. Still up and moving a full 24 hours after the shot!

It’s not all in vane though! I know my dog is on point! Doing her job! And to the best of my knowledge my judgment and accuracy evaluating tracks has been really good as well! Consistently is key and when Luci leaves a known blood line to search out a more favorable track, that’s enough evidence for me. Your deer is not dead! 💯 %