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Survey: Legality Of GPS With Dogs

Hi Guys,

The introduction of GPS into our sport will certainly be among the most important innovations for hound hunting that we will ever experience in our lifetimes.

In order to better understand the extent to which houndsmen use GPS, I am attempting to create a map indicating where GPS is explicitly legal (regulations exist that authorize it), explicitly illegal (regulations exist that prohibit it), and where no official position is taken (regulations do not exist at all). Rather than calling every single wildlife agency myself (which I will do if I absolutely have to), I am hoping you all can provide me with much of the data. I am interested in all US states, Canadian provinces, and other countries. Once it is completed, I would certainly be more than willing to post the color-coded map to the forum for everyone's reference.

If you are 100% certain of your location's laws relating to the use of GPS for dogs used in conjunction with the pursuit of mammals, I would greatly appreciate it if you could reply with a general indication of the nature of the regulations or provisions and your home state, province, or country. As an example, it is explicitly illegal to use GPS with hounds in the State of California, but not with bird dogs.

Thank you to everyone willing and able to help!

I do not want to know what states you can and can't use it. One of them things where if you don't know you might be better off.

what is the reason that you cant use them on hounds

In California, the use of GPS is prohibited because it supposedly violates a sense of fair chase...at least, that's what our Fish and Game department thinks anyway.