About John Jeanneney
John Jeanneney is a bow hunter and gun hunter. In 1971 he shot a deer and could not find it, although he searched a whole day. Ten days later the big doe was found dead 300 yards away in a thick swale. Thus began a 40 year obsession to find better ways of preventing the loss of wounded deer. Dead On! is a concise book presenting what he learned in helping other hunters on 930 searches.
After a youth filled with coon and deer hunting John graduated from New Paltz Central High School to Dartmouth College, where he majored in geology. After working as an exploration geologist he went on to Columbia University, where he received a PhD in European History. Research for his dissertation on French forest history, which was funded by a Fulbright scholarship, took him to the French National Forestry School for a year. There he also investigated European methods of deer hunting.
Back in the United States he taught for 31 years at Hofstra University. Teaching history was one of his passions; the others were hunting and finding ways to reduce the loss of wounded big game. In 1976 he received a research permit from New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate the feasibility of using leashed tracking dogs when deer and bear could not be found by other means. The success of this research project led to the legalization of tracking dogs in his own state and subsequently in many others. As a hunter he has published numerous articles and a widely selling book, Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer. He has given numerous workshops, seminars and presentations on wounded deer tracking. Every year John tracks wounded deer and bear for local hunters and takes over 30 "deer and bear calls".
In 2012 John has been inducted to the New York State Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame.
John resides with his wife Jolanta in Berne, located in the Helderberg Mountains of New York State, where they breed wirehaired dachshunds for blood tracking and hunting. You can read about John and Jolanta's breeding program and their dogs at www.born-to-track.com. In 2003 John and Jolanta formed a publishing company Teckel Time Inc. You can contact John at [email protected].
After a youth filled with coon and deer hunting John graduated from New Paltz Central High School to Dartmouth College, where he majored in geology. After working as an exploration geologist he went on to Columbia University, where he received a PhD in European History. Research for his dissertation on French forest history, which was funded by a Fulbright scholarship, took him to the French National Forestry School for a year. There he also investigated European methods of deer hunting.
Back in the United States he taught for 31 years at Hofstra University. Teaching history was one of his passions; the others were hunting and finding ways to reduce the loss of wounded big game. In 1976 he received a research permit from New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate the feasibility of using leashed tracking dogs when deer and bear could not be found by other means. The success of this research project led to the legalization of tracking dogs in his own state and subsequently in many others. As a hunter he has published numerous articles and a widely selling book, Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer. He has given numerous workshops, seminars and presentations on wounded deer tracking. Every year John tracks wounded deer and bear for local hunters and takes over 30 "deer and bear calls".
In 2012 John has been inducted to the New York State Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame.
John resides with his wife Jolanta in Berne, located in the Helderberg Mountains of New York State, where they breed wirehaired dachshunds for blood tracking and hunting. You can read about John and Jolanta's breeding program and their dogs at www.born-to-track.com. In 2003 John and Jolanta formed a publishing company Teckel Time Inc. You can contact John at [email protected].
