Guys
I'll have a new weapon to try for tracking deer this season. The wife and I bought a wirehair dachshund with a strong background of bloodtrailing parents and grandparents. Ruby is 9 months old, and we've been training her since last Feb with frozen deer blood and frozen deer legs collected last season.


The only grief is when a blood trail is fresh, she gets over-eager and will overrun the scent and lose the trail. When the scent has mellowed out over 24 hours, she follows it at a slow walk. I have my hopes she'll work out on the real thing. I have done volunteer tracking on the local Navy Base for 20 yrs, and there were many times we wished we had a skilled dog...

-fsh