Great job and a nice buck!

We had a long track this year also, 4 hours with a successful result.

Peter, in most US states the use of dogs to hunt or track deer or other big game is illegal.

Some states in the South allow deer hunting with hounds and some states allow various other animals to be hunted {bear, cougar, bobcat, coon, here in Idaho for example}.

Most Northern US states ban the use of dogs. I have read of an organization that is trying to educate several Game Departments about the use of tracking dogs for recovering wounded game {not hunting per se, but tracking after the shot}. We could use some good hundeførere here in Idaho, I promise you!!

Maybe some day...