Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Elk Grove California
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How many of you all run e-collars on your older hounds that you claim to handle well, be broke, and not cause any trouble? Assuming you raise a hound from a pup and have a shock collar on them when they're just starting out, do you generally intend to run them without it once they can be trusted or is it something that they'll always be turned loose with around their neck charged and ready to go just in case. Because the one night you decide not to put it on them they run fast game, won't come back when called, or get into some other mischief. So, how do you guys do it?

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Registered: Dec 2011
Location: Senatobia Mississippi
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I hunt mine never had one on. I am lucky I guess.

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I HAVE ONLY HAD ONE ON MY OLD DOG TWICE BOTH TRIPS WERE OUT OF STATE HUNTS FOR ME AND IT WAS FOR COMFORT THAT IF HE DIDNT OPEN I COULD ATLEAST LOCATE HIM (TRACKER WAS DOWN)NOW MINE HUNTS WITH THREE COLLARS
1. EVERY DAY COLLAR WITH NAME TAG
2.COLLAR WITH FLASHING BLUE LIGHT AND NAME TAG
3.GARMIN WITH NAME TAG
JUST SCARES ME WITH HOW DEEP HE HUNTS AND HE WILL NOT CHECK BACK IN PERIOD WHEN HES CUT YOU WILL WALK TO THE TREE NO MATTER IF ITS 20 FEET WHICH HAPPENS OR 3 MILES WHICH IT HAPPENS HE HATES COMPANY

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I have an e collar that will reach a hundred feet. Mostly it has to reach from the drivers seat to the dogbox. I can't stand a dog to open his mouth in my box. it's my box not his box. Some bark as you leave the truck headed to a tree so the 100 foot thing comes in handy. If they bark after I get 100 feet, the dog at the tree will have to wait while I turn around and get within a 100 feet and hold the button till the battery dies. If I ain't satisfied by then I go all the way back and take care of the trouble by hand. Did I say I can't stand a dog to bark in the box? I normally don't have a problem with it long.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: North GA
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If mines turned out. Young or old. Handle or not. They have a shocker on. I got a 9 yr old that wears it every time. Its a safety net for me I recken.

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Registered: Jan 2012
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i run mine on my dogs at all times when hunting . i don't worry about them trashing but i have them coming back to me with the tone button on my tritronics . beats heck out of hollerin and blowing the horn

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We run one on our old dog, in the mountains because she likes a bear, but in the low lands its more or less there as an extra that way if one goes out on a dog that needs it we have it in the woods....

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i run mine on my dogs at all times when hunting . i don't worry about them trashing but i have them coming back to me with the tone button on my tritronics . beats heck out of hollerin and blowing the horn

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I have my e-collars and tracking collars on the same collar. I run my dogs with them all the time, it keeps them charged up and the batteries last years.

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Every drop every night no matter the age. You have to remember they are dogs and are unpredictable.

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I run a shock collar on my older dog, more or less its mainly so he will come. He is collar smart and handles alot better with it on.

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Originally posted by robert whitten
i run mine on my dogs at all times when hunting . i don't worry about them trashing but i have them coming back to me with the tone button on my tritronics . beats heck out of hollerin and blowing the horn

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Every drop every night no matter the age. You have to remember they are dogs and are unpredictable.

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Registered: Dec 2003
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I run them on my dogs all their life.Tone button will reach farther than I can yell on the dogs that like to go deep. It saved my old dogs life one night on the river when he got out on a big floating snag. I don't run trackers, don't need them.

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A dog is not "finished" until it is "tone broke". People that say that their dog won't come back or that they have to get them off of a tree just don't know how to use a Tri-tronics.

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A dog is not "finished" until it is "tone broke". People that say that their dog won't come back or that they have to get them off of a tree just don't know how to use a Tri-tronics.

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i always have e collars on
just haven't run across a perfect dog yet like the ones i read about

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Registered: May 2005
Location: Bellevue, IA
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I'll throw an e collar on one before a big hunt. Dont have to use it but it does get there attention.

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if it hits the ground out of my box it has juice..just an extra hand imo

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Registered: Jun 2007
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If I lived and hunted in a place that had higher ground than what we have here,I wouldn't.But,here where I live,more often than not the dogs will get treed in some of the nastiest swamp that you could imagine.I'm talkin' 'bout swamps with no bottom.And when your dog gits treed in there too far,it's nice to just give 'em a buzz and have 'em come back to you like you had 'em on a string,pet 'em up real good and move to another spot.
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i run mine on my dogs at all times when hunting . i don't worry about them trashing but i have them coming back to me with the tone button on my tritronics . beats heck out of hollerin and blowing the horn

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every drop every dog every time.... its a tool i choose to use

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