re: Deer Blood Tracking Dog

I have female Redbone coonhound.I started working with her when she was 3 months old.
I had saved a deer liver cut up in chunks with a string run through it,put some extra deer,blood in the ziplock bags,and freeze it.
I used a cane pole about 10 feet log with a string,I would tie that to the chunk of deer liver and drag it for the trail.At the end I put some pieces of cut up wiener for her reward.

Start out short and simple at first.Then make the drag progressively longer making R and L turns,lay the trail and wait increasingly longer amounts of time before starting.

She trailed her first deer at 8 months ,about 125 yards but there was a pretty good blood trail.
3 seasons she has trailed 10,some were artificial where I drug the deer around with my golf cart so a good bit of blood.
She has only tracked one that didn’t bleed and she did a good job,just a little slower.
I have a harness and use a 20 foot rope for a leash.She goes bananas when I get the harness and leash to put on her.

Tara Wildlife,a high dollar bow hunting place uses labs,I’ve been told they put their dog on every deer that doesn’t drop within sight of the hunter and they’ll catch a deer that tries to run.

A friend of mine had a dachshund that was really good,he found quite a few deer before he died.
Funny thing he would guard the deer and bite anybody that tried to touch the deer,including his owner.