Dog Tracking GPS Unit!
03-25-2008, 07:48 AM
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Dog Tracking GPS Unit!
Hey guys, I just posted a pretty awesome new dog tracking system, check it out!
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.a...=&#2723807
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.a...=&#2723807
03-26-2008, 04:27 AM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Dog Tracking GPS Unit!
nick, you dont use trackers on your coonhounds?!?!
i honestly dont think ive seen a coon hunter that didnt use trackers on his hounds!! heck, when dad and i first started, we used cow bells on the collars before we got a tracking system!! just too much of an investment to just loose in the woods...real easy for a straight line hound to blow outta hearing...too much time, effort, money etc invested in a good hound to simply loose it...not to mention with monetary worth of a Grand Nite hound...then again you are from Iowa...a straight line hound probably wouldnt make it 100yds without hitting a track lol...here in PA its easy for dogs to blow out of hearing quick because of the hills and valleys and not as thick coon populations...
everyone uses radio telementry...i like quick track and wildlife tracking systems...i doubt those GPS units will ever be good enough to use on hounds...GREAT idea, just the fact that GPS doesnt work in deep valleys and hills and in thick cover...read alot of reviews on them and all of them said the same thing..leave the GPS units to the field hunters...hound hunters leave them on the shelf....never had a radio tracker fail to find the dog...
honestly its a rare night if we need a tracker...but its nice to have...found one dog in a drainage pipe one night we would never found without it....another night we found one in a 20ft brushpile we would never found...and once in a while they will get out of hearing before they open and we use them...not used too often, but when you have everything hound hunters have wrapped up in a hound, its just too hard to say you simply lost it in the woods...
i honestly dont think ive seen a coon hunter that didnt use trackers on his hounds!! heck, when dad and i first started, we used cow bells on the collars before we got a tracking system!! just too much of an investment to just loose in the woods...real easy for a straight line hound to blow outta hearing...too much time, effort, money etc invested in a good hound to simply loose it...not to mention with monetary worth of a Grand Nite hound...then again you are from Iowa...a straight line hound probably wouldnt make it 100yds without hitting a track lol...here in PA its easy for dogs to blow out of hearing quick because of the hills and valleys and not as thick coon populations...
everyone uses radio telementry...i like quick track and wildlife tracking systems...i doubt those GPS units will ever be good enough to use on hounds...GREAT idea, just the fact that GPS doesnt work in deep valleys and hills and in thick cover...read alot of reviews on them and all of them said the same thing..leave the GPS units to the field hunters...hound hunters leave them on the shelf....never had a radio tracker fail to find the dog...
honestly its a rare night if we need a tracker...but its nice to have...found one dog in a drainage pipe one night we would never found without it....another night we found one in a 20ft brushpile we would never found...and once in a while they will get out of hearing before they open and we use them...not used too often, but when you have everything hound hunters have wrapped up in a hound, its just too hard to say you simply lost it in the woods...
