Can’t find the deer you shot? A new tracking group in southeastern Minnesota is part of a growing network

Lisa Gargulak missed the first call. She didn’t feel her smartphone vibrate in her jacket pocket. Who could blame her? She was sitting comfortably in a deer stand, on a crisp, sun-splashed, near-perfect morning in October 2021 near Spooner, Wis. Gargulak was hoping to arrow a deer, but, she admits, it was “a pretty quiet morning.” At 9 a.m., another call came in – and this time she felt the vibration. It was the same person who’d called earlier.