Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: riflehunter on March 06, 2019, 06:39:34 PM
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Anyone use GPS collars for there pointers? I have had one dog up until this point but getting my second soon want to be able to track them both. Are the gps collars with it and if so what have been your experiences
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I have a garmen alpha i like it for hunting . i run three pointers at the same time i can make a correction on any of the three dogs from the same screen and it alerts me when a dog goes on point and which dog it is . It tells me stats on each dog ave speed and miles covered. I dont like the map feature i always use the compass screen it is alot easier at a glance to figure out which direction and how far each dog is from me. But for training i still perfer a regular shock collar like my dogtra 2502 easier to use when training
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I use an Astro, I've always had pretty hot dogs,I never could hunt with more than one at a time even though I tried for a couple years. What I came up with is... if most pro handlers only run one and admit to not having enough talent to handle 2 hard chargers simultaneously. I'm not trying it either. I've hunted with a few guys who throw out 2 or 3, generally it's a chase/follow each other around affair, 1 dog actually hunting, the others following . Save the second dog for the next spot, keeps more dog power in the quiver.
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Spot on Wild. We see it all the time, hunters come out with multiple dogs they have a weeks vacation. But want to run their dogs all together. 3 days into a weeks hunt. Blown pads, sprains, etc. etc.. no dogs to hunt with for four more days.
So I am not jacking this thread when I do run a GPS (which is not very often). Dogs are wired with Dogtra RT Edge & Alpha 220 with DC 40 collars.
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With all that everyone has there own views and they should know there dogs quite well and what they can handle, but regardless if I am running one dog or 2 dogs, I do hunt a lot of tall sage brush where it is easy to lose track of where your dog went on point. So would it be better to have an upland coals that beeps when they go on point and you go there for it or are GPS collars worth the money and investment. Like what was put out earlier I wouldn’t care about map as much as I would be distance and direction.
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Well worth the $$. I never worry about where my dog is and allows me to hunt silent which equals more birds in the bag.
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My dogs don’t get put on the ground without a GPS. It’s the cheapest insurance you can buy. Whether it be tall CRP, wide open prairies (where dogs still manage to disappear), or bob white hedge rows, my dogs always manage to disappear on point. It amazes me in today’s tech age, that people are willing to put a pointing dog on the ground without a GPS.
I agree with above posts that it isn’t easy running two dogs, and if you only have two, I believe they should be ran separately so a dog is always fresh. But I have three, and you can bet I run two together with no issues, while one rests. But I stagger them, and often just have one on the ground.
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I just purchased the alpha after season. Wish I would have purchased when she was a pup. I've been running it for shed season and impressed so far.
