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Rosie Works Out a 54½-Hour Velvet Buck Track
54½ hours after the shot, Rosie helped recover Travis Gordon’s velvet buck. More than a mile of travel and a valley filled with scent made this an unforgettable recovery for Travis, Trey Heaster, and the hounds.
Wesley Smith
Sep 152 min read
Rose the Nose: When There Is No Trail to Follow
No blood, no bolt, and an unexpected direction. Rosie recovered a young hunter’s double-lung-hit buck just 160 yards away.
Wesley Smith
3 days ago1 min read
Drone Busters: Don’t Let a Screen Tell You to Give Up
After an unsuccessful 2½-hour thermal search, Merlin recovered Daniel Booher’s buck just 158 yards from the last known bed.
Wesley Smith
3 days ago2 min read
Rose the Nose: Gary’s Single-Lung 12-Point
A 30-yard shot, no blood for the first 40 yards, and a 260-yard recovery. Rosie helped bring Gary Remmers’s Kentucky 12-point home.
Wesley Smith
3 days ago1 min read
Rose the Nose: 1.6 Miles and Ten Beds Later
A two-day recovery, 1.6 miles, and what was likely the buck’s tenth bed. Merlin followed the evidence; Rosie connected the final dots.
Wesley Smith
3 days ago2 min read
Merlin the Magician: The Missing Links
Hank and Nose to Trail Game Recovery got the search close. Merlin connected the final pieces and helped Guy Antonacci bring his buck home.
Wesley Smith
3 days ago1 min read
You Made the Call: Two Days, Two Dogs, One Answer
Merlin started the puzzle and Rosie found the answer: a Kentucky 10-point recovered about 1,200 yards from the shot, 21 hours later.
Wesley Smith
Oct 32 min read
Drone Busters — Episode 1: Jay’s Four-Minute Recovery
After a thermal drone search came up empty, Rosie recovered Jay Contino’s buck in four minutes. Watch the recovery and see where he was lying.
Wesley Smith
Sep 281 min read
Twister: The 227-Inch Kentucky Giant
Two days. Two dogs. 43 hours after the shot. Rosie and Merlin help recover Ari’s first archery deer—a Kentucky giant preliminarily measured at 227 inches.
Wesley Smith
Sep 274 min read
Rose the Nose: Tyler’s Wolfe County 9-Point
Rosie works the mountainous Wolfe County terrain to recover Tyler Sallie’s 9-point buck after an unexpected change in shot angle.
Wesley Smith
Sep 261 min read
Merlin the Magician: The Tail Never Lies
Blake Hostetler backed out and protected the track. Merlin followed his liver-hit 8-point about 250 yards to another deer on the tailgate.
Wesley Smith
Sep 262 min read
Rose the Nose: Rain or Shine, We Find the Line
This track started in a pouring thunderstorm and finished in a pouring thunderstorm. Mother Nature wasn’t interested in making the recovery easy, but Rose the Nose was ready to work. We got the call to help Kendall Robinson recover his 10-point buck. Forty hours after the shot, Rosie put her nose down and helped bring the search to a successful finish. Rain was with us from start to finish, but Rosie stayed with the job. Another memorable track, another buck recovered, and an
Wesley Smith
Sep 101 min read
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