Registered: Dec 2003
Location: cincinnati, ohio
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Took my 8 year old Grand Nite out this evening. First drop, Smoke struck a good track about 400 yards in. Pushed it real well about another 400 yards and shut up. I pulled my garmin out and it showed him on the main creek. I wait a few minutes and hear nothing. I double check the garmin. He's still in the same place. Since I raised this hound and spent many nights following him, I know that if he's not moving he's treed. In this case, there was no reason not to be able to hear him. Knowing this I began making my way toward him to investigate. Following the garmin and getting closer, I got within 30 yards of him and look in the direction my arrow is pointing. Smoke had ran a coon across a huge log that crossed the creek. Somehow he lost his footing and fell into the creek and through the ice. Only his head and two paws were above the ice. The rest of his body was submerged in the frigid water. Quickly I scurried out on the log and pulled him up on the log with me. He was unable to walk, so I wrapped my hunting coat around him to warm him up. After a few minutes of drying him off, I made him walk to get the blood back to flowing. Thanks to garmin, I recovered my valuable hound before hypothermia would have caused him to most likely drown. Five more minutes and I believe he would have been a gonner. Luckily he's recovering in the warmth of his dog house.

THANKS GARMIN!!!!!!!!

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Registered: Dec 2003
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Justin, Glad you got your dog back safe. Wonder how many other dogs will be saved and have been saved by this new technology?

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Registered: Dec 2010
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thats Great!!!!!!!!!!
These folks that would like to knock Garmine....Try finding your dog like that with a beep, beep!!!!!

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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: North Carolina
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I had a similar thing happen with a hound I had,she went in a hole in a creek bank and got her collar hung on a root,if it wernt for my astro I would never have found her.

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The old beep beeps just cant compare, glad you got your hound out and alive......................Tim

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Location: west virginia
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im glad u were able to rescue ur dog i have been able to cut my dogs off before they reach roads on several occsaions
garmin is the best thing to happen to coon hunting since the beep beep trackers they are an invaluable tool in our hunting arsenal

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Location: Malvern,Arkansas
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I know what you mean....I had the same situation last winter ..there was a tree that fell in the river and coon went out on it and bailed in the river my old quad ch male located a time or 2 and got quiet i knew he was at the river !!! When I got there he was hung up.He had started swimming around the tree to pick up the track and got a limb caught on his collar and was treading water . He want under 1 time that I seen !!! I got out of my boots and swam through the tree top and pulled him out !!! Without Garmin I'm positive he would be dead !!!! THANK YOU GARMIN !!!!

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Registered: Dec 2008
Location: oh
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Hello Justin
Glad you got old smoke out of that cold water he is a nice hound
you to make a good pair all call you one night and see if we can tree a few. happy new years,your freind j lewis.

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