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Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 01:58 PM:

You guys were right

tried my new Garmin lastnight for the first time , and yall were right these things are amazing young dog got in deep on what i think was a white tailed coon picked him up at 1.3 miles in very hilly country ,this this is the best thing since sliced bread

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Posted by mike sheridan on 03-31-2012 02:31 PM:

Is it the 320? what did they change on it? I have a 220

Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 02:35 PM:

nope its the 220 .it was my first night using it so still messing with it but so far its pretty awesome

Posted by mike sheridan on 03-31-2012 02:38 PM:

Yeah they are awsome. Wouldnt want to hunt without mine!

Posted by Bear on 03-31-2012 04:01 PM:

JIm ,I wouldnt trade mine for anything. Your Right,Best thing since sliced bread LOL

Posted by ronald schultz on 03-31-2012 04:27 PM:

got a question for you guys , was just wondering where get that????

WHAT YA CALL IT ??? 'sliced bread?" sounds neat!!

Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 04:31 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Bear
JIm ,I wouldnt trade mine for anything. Your Right,Best thing since sliced bread LOL

LOL i fig it would take me a month to fig it out hahaha

Posted by GA DAWG on 03-31-2012 04:35 PM:

Your hooked now. No going back. Anybody who says they ain't better either don't have any sence or are just hard headed and wanna be the never wrong kinda person lol.

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Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 04:43 PM:

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Originally posted by GA DAWG
Your hooked now. No going back. Anybody who says they ain't better either don't have any sence or are just hard headed and wanna be the never wrong kinda person lol.

lol so far so good , still very new with it,want to fig out how too mark the truck ,forgot to do it lastnight when i left the truck hahaha

Posted by Rip on 03-31-2012 04:50 PM:

Jim be patient. I am still learning that it has features I didn't realize.

Most of the problems with them, not all, but most are user error.

Keep using it until you are very comfortable with what you can do with it.

The biggest problem with them is the antenna connection. The handheld connection is the problem. The antennas on the collars can be replaced easily. The hand held you gotta send it in so be very careful and gentle when you change out antennas.

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Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 04:56 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Rip
Jim be patient. I am still learning that it has features I didn't realize.

Most of the problems with them, not all, but most are user error.

Keep using it until you are very comfortable with what you can do with it.

The biggest problem with them is the antenna connection. The handheld connection is the problem. The antennas on the collars can be replaced easily. The hand held you gotta send it in so be very careful and gentle when you change out antennas.

Rip i changed the Antennas on the collars ,it was very easy and i changed the handheld Ant too just made sure i didnt over tighten it , and ya im the kindof person that has to just use something to fig it out ,instructions do nothing for me lol

Posted by old ben on 03-31-2012 09:03 PM:

welcome to the garmin family jim lol

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Posted by Tully on 03-31-2012 09:15 PM:

Garmins are great!

What antennas did you put on your collars?

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Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 09:32 PM:

Re: Garmins are great!

quote:
Originally posted by Tully
What antennas did you put on your collars?

what ever one Eric from Quaill hill kennel sells,all i know is they are long , thanks old ben still a rookie but hopefully im a fast learner

Posted by Tully on 03-31-2012 10:02 PM:

Not sure on those

A high quality collar antenna does huge things for your range, and how quick you pick them back up!

Posted by micooner on 03-31-2012 10:08 PM:

Re: got a question for you guys , was just wondering where get that????

quote:
Originally posted by ronald schultz
WHAT YA CALL IT ??? 'sliced bread?" sounds neat!!

Can't tell you where to get it, then you will want to know where to find coca-cola LOL

Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 10:09 PM:

Re: Not sure on those

quote:
Originally posted by Tully
A high quality collar antenna does huge things for your range, and how quick you pick them back up!

when it dropped him it picked him up within a few sec again

Posted by Jim Hill on 03-31-2012 10:11 PM:

Re: got a question for you guys , was just wondering where get that????

quote:
Originally posted by ronald schultz
WHAT YA CALL IT ??? 'sliced bread?" sounds neat!!

ya its pretty neat even comes in its own bag with this thing called a twist tie hahahaha

Posted by Rip on 03-31-2012 10:25 PM:

Jim these things are so awesome when it comes to training as well. The other night I had a young dog strike a track and then locate several times in a very thick area. Then he hushed and stayed in the same area about 5 or 10 minutes. Now mind you this is a dog that when he locates he TREES. He didn't do that. Just hushed. Somethin wasn't right. I began to wonder was he in a hole or what.

Then he went on picked the track back up and treed right. Well I wondered what went on. Did it get in a brushpile? Did he just lose it and locate out of frustration (the area was logged so it was thick with treetops everywhere).

I went to where he was at and found the answer. He killed a possum and had wolled it for a little, then went on and treed a coon.

I still don't know if he ran the possum, killed it then struck a coon or if he just stumbled across it while running the coon. I think he just tracked it up, don't see him stoppin long enough to kill it if he was already on a coon.

Bottom line is he THOUGHT he got away with it. With the old beep beep he would have gotten away with it and I would have never known it.

Now I know and knowing is the majority of the battle and it means that I have some trainin to do. Can't fix something you don't know about. Thanks to the Garmin I can hopefully nip it in the bud as Barney would say.

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