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    Matthew McWilliams and Smoke get 5 stars.

    The stars lined up for me to be at the lease and the wind be right to hunt a buck I called catty wompus.
    Tried hunting this stand twice on a marginal wind and watched him walk by 90 yards out and keep going.

    Sunday morning sitting in the ground blind in the dark and I hear the tale tale crunch of corn being ingested. It gets light enough to see and there he is under the feeder 30 yards away. The buck and doe parade start and I’m now looking at 15 deer from 10 to 40 yards.
    Catty wompus makes short work of the corn under the feeder and moves to guarding the hand corn I put out at 20 yards.
    It is now 7:30ish and I have had 20 mins to get my nerves under control. I draw, anchor, and rotate to settle the pin on a quartering shot on a wide open heart lung shot. As soon as I let go I knew I pulled the shot. I watched the slick trick zip through about 6 inches back from where I wanted.

    Catty Wompus hunched up and ran off 50 yards stopped and looked around. Fall, fall, fall, come on fall.
    He slowly walked off and jumped the fence and disappeared in the cedars.

    I instantly sent a text message to a local guy who I used last year for my wife’s deer and he was unable to make it till the next day. He has some great tracking dogs, but i needed a catch dog. This deer is not hit that hard.

    I called Matthew McWilliams and then asked the rancher to clear it with the other pastures hunters to send a dog. I got out of the blind at 8:30am and went to look at the arrow and find blood. I found a small puddle where he stopped, a few drops on the way to the fence, a spot of blood on the fence, and nothing but a few deep hoof prints on the other side. I then eased out and headed back to camp to change and go meet Matt.

    Met Matt in Mertzon 2.5hrs later and we made the sloppy 9 mile drive into the lease.
    Matt collared up smoke and let the old boy loose. I was trying to show Matt the shot sight and blood to start the dog and he say show me where he crossed the fence. Matt put smoke over the fence and he was off to the races. How did that happen? He never started the dog. There were a lot of deer that left that away. All questions racing through my mind as we start following smoke on the GPS.
    We followed and 20 yards in there is blood, ok this guy and dog may know what they are doing. 30 yards more and another tiny spec of blood. We followed, and followed, and followed, and followed. “I think he has him bayed up” Matt says. “Do you hear barking?” Listen and it’s all quite. Matt looks and the GPS and we take off again not seeing any blood for the last 900 yards. We have now traveled 1000 yards from the shot site and we are still going up, down, and around following the dog trail looking for sign. 700 yard more and another fence and still no blood. We cross the fence and keep going. Smoke is not moving on the GPS and we don’t hear any barking. Another 100 yards and there is smoke tucked up under low hanging oak branches enjoying the rewards of a found deer.

    We ended up traveling about 1 mile starting NNE and ended up 1/2 mile NW of the stand. It took smoke less than 15 mins to find catty wompus with little to no blood.

    Service after the sell was even better. We made our way back to the trucks finding a road that put us with only 200 yards off roading, 1 fence, and 100 yard drag. Matt took his truck down backed up to the fence and set up his hoist that made life easy. We went back to my truck and lowered it into the bed.

    Turns out smoke is on his last season and I am glad I got to see him work. Matt is now at the top of a very short list of dogs handlers that I don’t want to have to call again.

    Shot placement got stomach and liver, did not see any lung damage.





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    Last edited by JJtomball; 12-12-2018, 09:01 PM.

    #2
    Congrats on a cool buck. Matt and Smoke are top notch.

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      #3
      Matt is a good guy and has some amazing dogs.


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        #4
        Glad it worked out and you recovered your buck. He is a very cool buck too!!!

        Congrats!

        Bisch


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          #5
          Congrats bud

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            #6
            Matthew and Smoke have helped multiple tbh’ers lately.

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              #7
              Congrats on a cool buck, glad you found him.

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                #8
                I’ve personally have seen his dogs in action, it’s amazing to see what actual properly trained dogs will do.

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                  #9
                  Nice work, glad you were able to recover your deer.

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                    #10
                    Nice buck! Good job Smoke.

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                      #11
                      Smoke is Jason Smarts favorite dog.

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                        #12
                        Matt drove from Brady to San Angelo last year for me at midnight. He and “Jock” found my buck shortly thereafter! I’d recommend them to anyone

                        Congrats on a sweet looking buck!
                        Last edited by TheHammer; 12-13-2018, 07:44 AM.

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                          #13
                          Good deal. Amazing what a good dog can do.

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                            #14
                            Glad y'all got him found. Congrats.

                            -john

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                              #15
                              They are awesome!

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