Tracking collars

Y'all fellas just running the Garmin are brave.

I have a Garmin and a Quick Track... all dogs wear both collars. No dog gets turned out without a radio collar, but they will without the Garmin.

We've lost dogs on several hunts, that without the radio collars, they may not have been found. Chris told a good story on it a while back, his dogs were five miles away.

Last week, we dropped dogs off the radar at .86 miles, one popped up for a second at 1.31 miles... still heading north. The only way to get to them was on foot. After a while, I pulled out the Quick Track and tracked them... they looped back to the south-east about a mile or so. If we had headed north on foot, we would have never gained signal again on the Garmin. Harry's two dogs only had a Garmin on, since we knew the other dogs were that way he drove down and got a signal on them. They ended up being picked up around three miles or better from where we first lost them.

I love the Garmin to death, but I'm not risking my dog's lives on it.