Awesome Mike! Thank you for doing what you do and helping everyone all over the state. Never had to use a tracking dog but if I'm ever in the need I'll try to contact you first. Your love for your dogs and recovering kids deer amazes me and it shows what kind of person you are. Once again thank you and can't wait I'll
Next season to read along as the season unfolds and watch you do your magic with Lucy!

Great service that you and the rest of the blood trackers provide. I know of a few deer this year that could have probably been recovered, but the shooters opted to not call. I think next year ya'll are going to be called more.
Someone said you have moved to Alabama, is that correct?

Congrats on another great season, you and Lucy turned a record amount of frowns into smiles ! You are always a hard working , class act. Thank you for your dedication and service you provide.

BTW, my offer still stands , you and Lucy need a place to bunk for the night when tracking in my area or if I can help in any way, give me a call.

You just made a very important statement. There are tens of thousands of lost deer in Alabama each year and the majority of them are ending up like the ones you describe. The more those people start hearing about using tracking dogs though then the better for everyone. See you next year Idahomike.......


It’s gonna be epic!

Made me spit all over my monitor!

Thanks Mike for all you, your wife and Lucy's hard work this year that ya'll did for Alabama hunters.

You are truly a class act!

Congrats Mike on an awesome tracking season!

Thanks Mike for a great season you are the best!

Thanks Dickie,was great meeting you and your friend,that was fancy atv driving you did!!

I'm in Alabama and ready to help recover deer for bama hunters! I look forward to getting together with all the bama hunters I met last year and hope to meet some new ones.lucy and I have had a good season. so far this season weve put 104 deer on the tail gate of those 45 had to be tracked,chased,bayed and dispatched.lucy is up to 535 deer on the tailgate with 223 of them bayed and dispatched.
So far since we got here on Wednesday we've put two nice bucks on the tail gate first one was a 26 hour old track and the second one was a real cool piebald buck first piebald I've ever seen.he had to be bayed and dispatched.
Mike Lopez"idahomike"
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I don't charge,just really appreciate a donation to help with expenses,I'm staying in motel 6's because they let my dogs in the room and don't charge a fee for them.
Sure feels good to be back in Alabama,love this state.


Lucy was born May 22 of 2010.

I didn't start advertising her as a tracking dog until 2013,which is when I determined she was good enough to take the responsibility of tracking a hunters deer,before that I just tracked my own,family and a few friends.


I believe tracking a hunters deer is a great responsibility,and should only be done by a competant,fully trained and tested in the field dog and handler. Especially if renumeration is expected.


Otherwise the handler risks giving all trackers a bad name in the eyes of hunters.



I only count a deer as a recovery if we can put them on the tail gate/put our hands on them,some trackers have a more liberal definition as found/or recovered which in my oppinion leads to false claims/numbers. If you can put you hands on the deer then that is a positively definitive reliable result/number,with no questions of ligitimacy of claims!!


Caught alive means,we tracked,chased,Bayed,dispatched the deer,broke leg,shoulder,gut shot etc...


Lucy's records as of Jan.5,2018 approximately 77% through the 2017/2018 tracking season.


            Recovered   caught alive                               


2010 to 2013 pup/training,yrs 


                   26             5


2013/14    55           18


2014/15    101          42


2015/16    142          59


2016/17    107          54


2017/18    104         45


Total to       535        223
Date


If you do the math 43% of the
Deer recovered had to be tracked,Bayed and dispatched.         


Lucy's best streak so far is 17 on the tail gate in a ROW,of those 17,she tracked,chased,Bayed,and we dispatched 13 of them,That had broken legs,shoulders,gut shot,etc,,,,    
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Our club is just south of Montgomery, glad to have another tracker in the area.

I would be honored to track for your club.
I don't charge,just really appreciate a donation to help with expenses,I'm staying in motel 6's because they let my dogs in the room and don't charge a fee for them.
Sure feels good to be back in Alabama,love this state.

JChan in regular forum looking for a dog in St. Clair county.