Points to be taken from this.
1. Just because a dog can run fast Does Not mean it can move a track fast. If that was the case, we all would be hunting greyhounds.
2. "Everything is relative." Fast in your book might be slow mine. Or your slow dogs may lead my pack. 20 Mph was thrown out, well I have seen track at speeds of 25mph or more.
3. Track speed is like everything else. Mine is bigger, longer, prettier, cooler until we actually are able to measure . Example
All boars are 300 pounds plus until someone breaks out the scale then 300 lbs goes to 225 or 240 lbs.4. I;m not a garmin pusher. I think they still have holes in them. I still run my old collars, but they is no better tool to determine the track speed of a dog.
The Garmin is a great modern tool but the old timers have been breeding and hunting fast track dogs from way back. Some field trial dogs were even bred so fast and long range that regular hunting folks steered away from these types. This was way before the company "Garmin" was invented.
I have seen the Garmin in use. It is great but when the range is at least doubled and the battery life is extended by a large margin then and only then will I buy one... The type of dogs I like to hunt will get out of range pretty quick with todays Garmin technology.
Well, I agree on pin pointing track speed with the Garmin and this will ultimately get us to find out exactly how a dog will run a track and this is a valuable tool especially if we are wanting to breed better dogs...
Speed on track is not the most important trait for a good hog dog. It goes hand in hand with quite a few other traits...
