Ward's Outfitters A season to Rember

[wardsoutfitters]

In December I bought a 7 week old black lab and named him Neeko. Throughout the month we have taken him on every deer recovery and have saved fresh blood for training purposes. Throughout the month while clients were in blinds we would make trails of blood for Neeko to follow with a reward of small pieces of deer meat and hide at the end for a reward. Yesterday we put his training to the test. One of our clients made a bad hit on a buck; he thought he saw the arrow shoot low through the bottom of the sternum. When we got to the blind I asked the client where the buck ran, he didn’t even have time to answer and Neeko was on Blood and following it. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. He was working great. I know from experience that where you think the arrow hit and where it actually did is more often than not the same. We were seeing more blood than usual for a sternum hit so we kept going and Neeko was right on. It came to the point where we couldn’t see blood but every 100 yards or so. Neeko still followed the trail only loosing it for a few seconds at a time. We continued on the trail moving as fast as Neeko; it was cool because he would not get any more than 20 to 30 yards ahead of me. During the tracking job we stopped a few times to give ourselves a break, Neeko would play with sticks and then rest awhile. We would hang out for 10 or 15 minutes and then Neeko would get right back on the trail and start tracking again. We followed the buck for over a mile and I knew we were close because Neeko got very excited and the hair started to stand on his back, we went another 50 yards and found the buck dead in his bed. Neeko is 13 weeks old and working very good I hope to keep his training up in the off season. Neeko asisted in finding three deer during the last two weeks.

Below are a few of the deer we harvested the past month . All together our clients harvested 18 coues deer during the month of January

[stanley]

Wow! That is very cool!! Thanks for sharing!

 

S.

 

[Browning'sCustomMeat]

Thats awesome! Neeko sure looks to a great dog! Good Luck this year.

[CouesWhitetail]

That is so flippin' cool!!! Nice job Neeko!! What a great dog. Keep him safe and happy and he will only get better and better. Wow, what an impressive story.

[AZ FSJ'r]

Great pup, and nice coues.

[azmetalman]

Thank you for sharing this story. Great Dog!! Great Story!!!

[bonecollector]

Good lookin dog and coues. Congrats to you and your clients on a great Jan.

[arizonaelitefreak]

steven what an awesome dog you have and great story!

[cramerhunts]

Wow! Really cool. Great story and awesome looking season. Congrats to you and your clients. Sweet pictures as well of some dang nice bucks.

[wardsoutfitters]

I am hoping that by next season Neeko will be able to help local hunters with their tracking jobs if they need him

[LAR DOG]

Congratulations To all of you, I Have a lab, He found RK'S Velvet deer in 2010 and his 2011 deer, Martin is his name.he is two years old, He can find anything, Old folks, Kids, Wife or husband ran off, He can do it all, He works for free, If you need any help give us a shout. Inkspot13

[loco4coues]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[GRONG]

GOOD LORD STEVEN!!!!! How'd I miss this post?!?!? I can't tell you how cool I think that is!!! Congrats to all your hunters and to you for trainin that little sucker so good! Now if only I had one of those to find whitetail sheds for me.................