re: Deer Blood Tracking Dog

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Any suggestions for someone about to start the adventure

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Basically any dog on earth has a good enough nose to do it. They need the drive to do it and the discipline to handle easily to be great at it.

It often involves stuff you may not normally do, like boat rides, four wheeler rides, trailing next to a highway, etc. A dog that handles well makes all that so much better.

Get a garmin alpha tracking training collar. Totally worth it, even though I did for a long time without it.

My best dog was half lab half bloodhound. Also know of successful purebred labs , blue lacy, a rat terrier, a pit bull, some basic mutts.

I got to where I liked tracking deer more than hunting them. It's damned fun when you have a good dog. Don't worry about finding work. Word will get out quick and there's lots of people crippling lots of deer out there.