CANT FIGURE OUT???

[hillcountry]

How with todays technology that the post are full of tales of dogs lost or hurt .  I know that they are expensive  but if the dog is worth hunting he is worth putting a tracking collar on.  We run two a gps and a wildlife haveht lost a dog in 3 years. Sold a dam good dog to get them but worth every penny.

[Heaven Sent Kennel]

well i'm pretty sure the hurt part of it is just the sport ain't no one's fault. As far as loosing a dog i've noticed alot of them just get out of a pen and you can't run a tracker on 'em 24/7 but try and figure out a suitable pen situation for each dog. just a couple thoughts I got when i read this.

[Reuben]

as many hog doggers out there it would be easy to pick up a few hog dogs on the side of a country road or hiway. I have heard of a few going down the road over 60 miles an hr...

[brad s]

My deal is I have got 5 dogs total and only 2 collars well fixing to b 3 I have ordered another one but my dogs usually stay together but every now and then I will lose one without a collar but they always come back to wher I parked at.

[Purebreedcolt]

All I got to say is stuff happens

[halfbreed]

been runnin dogs personaly since the 6o's never owned any kind of tracking system never lost a dog . had to STAY OUT till a few came back in but allways made it back home with them . can't remember dad ever loosing a dog . but spent the night waiting for them to come in i'm sure . i remember dad playing a tune on the horn many a long night when i was young but we went home with the dogs . i'm sure alot of it is the economy and debt most people get into and being scared to death of loosing a job that makes em leave the woods before the dogs make it back to the truck has alot to do with it . me i never had that problem cause i;d rather hunt than work and have never been more than a months wages in debt. i don't have a bunch of shiney new toys but no stress in my life either . and as far as a tracking system a hurt dogs i don't get it 

[hillcountry]

I hunted the old way to, spent many a night wondering where my dogs were and some times not geting them back for a week one time one was gone for almost two months lost him in eaglepass got the call from dilly thats a long travel. I was old school to it shure makes the hunt funner when i know where every dog is at all times. As far as the hurt dogs go its pretty self explanatory bieng ableto go right to them might be the diffrence between life and death. And i did not mean in the kennels

[skunkhounds]

if you got rough dogs suit them up and i have been hunting for 20 yrs and can count on 2 fingers how many dogs i have lost and i have only had garmin for a couple yrs

[halfbreed]

i can understand what you're saying and thats why i prefer the closer working dogs with a good hangle on em . if i had them out of control go yonder dogs that don't check back in i could see the need for a system . and i have been looking in to one but don't consider it a neccesity to the point i'd go in debt over one , but my buddys got a garmin and there a definate plus especialy in new country and yes they would help locate a hurt dog . but i think the systems on the market are way overpriced just like everything else dog or cat related . you can keep up with your human loved ones via gps for a heck of alot cheeper ,same technology just cheaper

[SCHitemHard]

i started runnin dogs without collars, they will come back sooner or later most of my dogs were close range but ive lost some before but i just lay down the horn on the truck and they know to come to it

[hogdog05]

When I first started bout 15 yrs ago, at the ripe old age of 13 I couldn't afford a tracking system.  And frankly didn't know they existed.  My parents allowed me to hunt with some friends of the same age.  Drove a jeep to the bottoms and turned out.  Only knew one other person that had dogs and that where I got started, but never hunted with him and never heard him say anything about a tracking system.  Dogs never really ranged and probably weren't that good but we caught pigs.  But stayed many a night in the woods Waitin for em to come back in.  Make a fire and sit and talk, dipping snuff cause we thought we were cool.  Show up to school late cause we had to get our dogs and leave em in the truck in the parking lot.  Never had a dog box either.  But as I got older and started getting serious and better dogs came along, and hunting further off I started getting more equipment.  And now after haveing a tracking system and gps I can look back and say  "Dang what was I doing".  Knowing where my dogs are is PRICELESS.  I heard somebody call them long ranged dogs that don't check back in "out of control".  Well I don't see it that way.  My dogs are pretty rangey.  But they are out there huntin and I taught them to stay out there.  They do listen when I talk to em and come back in when called.  Personal choice.  But tracking system saveed us not to long ago.  Caught a pig in a hasty swamp.  Dogs rolled and bayed another sent CD in from 25 yrds pig broke before she got there.  Middle of August and late in the morning.  Done got HOT.  Pig could move through there like nothing.  But,CDs couldn't.  One CD overheated and couldn't find her.  Luckily we had good signal in the swamp and found here because of the gps collar.  It literally said 3 feet from us and we couldn't see her cause of the honeysuckle vines.  Stepped one more time and steeped on dog.  Laying in the mud.  Got her vest pulled off and into some water cooled her off and saved her life.  If she had a beep beep collar might of been to late by the time we got her pinpointed.  But with no collar she would have died and we woulda lost a good dog, and vest, cut collar.  Don't get me wrong my dogs don't leave without a beep beep.  But if your gonna hunt it is probably the best investment you will ever make.  I wish I had one a lot early in my career, probably could caught more pork.  I could go on and on about why you should get one.  But if you don't have one my advice get one.  You will be more productive and save on your investment in dogs.

[hillcountry]

Hog dog05 that was the point i was trying to get at.

[buddylee]

I will not turn a dog out without a beep beep system as I find them more reliable. I also put a Garmin on each dog. My walkin catch dog also wears the two types of collars. I'm transitioning to a rougher pack and the Garmin makes it so much easier to find injured dogs. Had a friend loose 2 dogs due to heat stroke catching on a hog during the heat of summer. He had a beep beep system. If he had a Garmin he would have known they were caught together. After telling him what I thought, he promptly bout a Garmin.

[DoGgONit]

tracking collars are not perfect and despite how much money you spend on them they all have problems. normally when hunting !!!!

[dub]

Well first off some people have followed the tracking collar to find a collar next to the road. There are thiefs that go out with trackers looking for tracking collars and steal the dogs. They are not theft prevention and why I have not used one. The new DC40's have a pin setting so others can't track your dog. If you would like to buy a set for me I let you.

[hillcountry]

I guess every body has thier priorties i buoght my fancy tracking system before my fancy computer to bs with you guys.    so buy yur own !!!

[hillcountry]

We are lucky here there is only a hand full of hunters. We got a way of dealing with dog killers and no dog thiefs around so im not talking about useing them for theft protection.  Im talking about the conveneice of where they are where they are headed, who is in the race who is kicked out ect. ect. If they are headed for aproblem property or a  place that snares i can call them back or head them off. As far as saveing time,and helping makeing the hunt more enjoyable by eliminateing the above obsticles its the best money ive ever spent.