Theres dogowners for you!
Never agreeing on the preference of a breed!

Ive seen both do great work on tracking. The bigger dogs have their advantages mostly when let loose. They will kill the deer, if they can catch it, and a beagle cannot. Totenverbellern and Bringselrapportieren are not easy to train.A loose beagle does not often make a wounded deer stay but follow it, and on a hot day maybe bite it in the hind legs, being dragged away! They are moreso than the GPs, bread to follow scent tracks for long periods of time! If you get a hunting bread one at all, that is!

If you are not allowed to let the dog loose and not allowed to use a weapon to kill the deer it cant make a big difference what breed you choose. Cant be a wrong choice here!