Big Scare Today

[TexasHogDogs]

Kyle and me let the dogs out about 9 am .  Horn his two sons one off of Penny and one off of Whitey with the Penny dog being 13 months the Whitey pup 9 months .  Just really out letting the pups strech there legs and get use to the woods .  Well they were gone out the whole time 300 400 sometimes 500 yds with their daddy.  Well Horn strikes and the two younger dogs happen to be on the other end of the creek .  Well Horn takes off 1000 yds are more and so we have to go to the road and way around to get to were he is headed .  We get there at the creek it says treed at 315 yds I listen no bark no noting in the mean time the two pups are off killing pigglets on the other end LOL .  Well I tell Kyle we got to cross this creek and go something is wrong because he aint moving and only 315 yds away and not a sound .  We go we get 100 yds still no bark noting .  Now am starting to think the worst he is dead are hurt really bad so we get 25 yds still noting and my ass in in my throat .  Get to were it says near I jump the bob wire fence Kyle looks on the other side.  Now I got to say I was sick at my stomach just knew he was dead and then low and behold I look down and there is the garmin collar just laying there wide open were it came un buckled some how .  Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew man what a relief but now didnt know were the hell he was .  Anyway we go back to get the pups they are having a ball chasing baby pigs finally get them and guess who shows up Ole Horn my boy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Boy I tell ya I was sick at my stomach for a while .

Ever have that happen a garmin collar come unbuckled like that first time for me and  hope the last because that will skeer the chit out of ya !

[SwampHunter]

glad you got him back , that happen to me before . except with my bulldog,
sent him to bay it broke an garmin lost comication only 200 yards away right at a big creek , i was looking every where thinking he got hung up in creek an sunk an was dead , after a good lil bit i gave up an went to the dogs it showed treed 1.2 mi away , well we get there an what do you know my dang bulldog is caught an his collar still anit pickin up , i donno if he banged it around or what it hasnt messed up since but boy was i sacred for a few min

[justincorbell]

Ill make sure to take a pic next time i put mine on, they never move at all, the trick is usin a longer collar and weavin it in.

[justincorbell]

And im jappy to hear you got him back!

[justincorbell]

Happy*

[Mpbarrs]

Good to hear ya got him back, that's a crappy feeling

[TexasHogDogs]

Yeah man that is a gut wrenching feeling for sure.  I had them before and lost some good dogs it aint a good feeling at all .

[Bonnie_Clyde]

I try to keep my distance from my dogs and it really sucks for me because I can't help myself for really haven a close connection with them. I have lost them on my garmin and always no matter what my stomach always goes in my throat. I'm 51 years old and always had dogs and lost my dad when I was 14 years old and my dogs got me through it.I have not yet today shaken that feeling of loosing any of my dogs. I have lost several over the years and really gets to me. The positive thing I guess when I do lose one makes me crazier to find the biggest baddest one and really put the hurt to them.

[T-Bob Parker]

It used to happen occasionally and I hated it but learned that you can take the tag end thru the buckle, under the next piece and back into the buckle so that it won't come undone. Haven't had one come off since. If you put the Garmin on top of the cut collar though, you don't have the room. Just zip tie it to the cut collar loops.

[TazD]

That will scare the $hit out of you. I was hunting one day with my Bo dog and he got out on one over 900yds away. We started heading his way and checked the Garmin and saw he was heading back towards us when we lost reception to him. I know he was on one by the way the map showed him working in circles trying to figure out the track and then hauling a$$ in a straight line. Figured we would keep heading in the direction we last got reception from him. Traveled about 600yds and still no Bo!!! My catchdog Zena was acting like she could hear something by continueing to pull me so I just let her pull me in the direction she wanted to go. When she cut into a big thick palmettoe flat we could finally hear a fight going on. Cut her loose to Bo and we got a nice boar hog that he found and was caught on. His collar was severed right through the antenna wire and was barley hanging off of his neck. She made you respect the old timers who use to hunt with no tracking systems!! The boar he found and caught that cut the collar.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Its a sick feelin for sure,, kind of like havin a bay and all of sudden a dog pulls out of the collar that u got him attached to the bike with.. Gone with the wind and he aint no collar on, and then all of a sudden the bay breaks... Been there badd deal.  throwin the ole t shirt out and waitin all night sucks..

[hillbilly]

I have seen boar hogs cut collars off of the dogs

[justincorbell]

Sometimes I wish that I had never bought a garmin, a very good buddy of mine and myself used to hunt 4-6days a week after work every week.........we were younger and single with no other obligations.......thats a whole nother subject lol but anyway.........we used to hunt either my deer lease in nome tx ( pines, palmettos, and thick thick thick) or in labelle in the marsh, 90% of the time on horseback. We didn't own a tracking system and caught tons of hogs......I owned 1 male walker named amos.....he was our tracking system, he would occassionaly open up on track and thats how we would find em, you could hear him from over 3x's the distance as the rest of the dogs at a bay.........it sure was nice to not be foolin with a dang garmin constantly lookin down at the screen to see where they were every minute...........I miss those days but honestly I don't know that I could go back to hunting like that.......

[TexasHogDogs]

Them were the days .

But I aint giving up my Garmin for noting !  I love to be able to just look down and see were they are at ,  were they going and what they are doing .  Spent a lot of wasted miles before they came out with these things.

[hillbilly]

Them were the days .

But I aint giving up my Garmin for noting !  I love to be able to just look down and see were they are at ,  were they going and what they are doing .  Spent a lot of wasted miles before they came out with these things.

x2 on the wasted miles

[firemedic]

That's why I still put my old Johnson collars on my dogs as well as the Garmin. I know that the old radio collars won't quit for some silly reason. Someday I guess I'll trust the Garmins enough to only use them,.....but not just yet.