Bloggers at Born-to-Track News & Views relayed a story of two D&DH readers who read about the use of dogs -- german Daschunds to be exact -- to track deer. The hunters needed help tracking a deer after they'd exhausted all efforts to recover it and came up short this past weekend. After reading the D&DH story, they did some tracking of their own to locate one of the deer trackers cited in the article. They found Kevin Armstrong and his dog Karma.

What follows is Armstrong's report:

"We found this deer 87 hours after it was hit! The hunter hit the deer last Friday (10-24-08) and gave it up for lost on Saturday. Over the weekend he read about tracking dogs in Deer & Deer Hunting magazine. Through contact information in the magazine he managed to get the call narrowed down to me. Tuesday morning I left at daylight in a hard cold rain with little hope of recovering the deer nearly 4 days after the hit. The hunter was sure he had a body hit and he was willing to tag the deer if we found it. It took 2.5 hours of cold trailing, then area search and wind whiffing. Our adventure included an unplanned dip in the Clyde River but what the heck. Anyone crazy enough to take up a 4 day old trail is crazy enough to ... well. Long story short, we found him. Hunter, human tracker, and K9 tracker are all cold, wet, and tired. None of us could be happier!

Happy trails!

Kevin & Karma "