Rip
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Morrison TN
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Originally posted by POTOMAC
i did not say striking a mile deep i dont know about yall but when my dog gets 600 to 800 yds away heading away from me i start looking and moving.and i still would like someone to bring a dog here were its flat thick and ditches and here him 1 mile away. not up on a hill overlooking the underbrush i have heard mine at a mile up above them but flat thick cover and 1 mile is a long way and as i stated earlier other than the 5% of the year when coons are rutting. if a dog runs a track( a hard running /pushing type dog) more than a mile in my country i likely is not a coon. i would like to hunt with some real loud dogs. i think mine have shown to have a way bettewr than average mouth. if interested in hunting just give ma a call thanks joe m571=233-5819
See that's the problem. You are trying say what is adequate equipment for someone and imply nobody should need more range etc. and you don't know the conditions. You mistakenly assume that you can just hop around and go get the dogs and move if they get 500 yards away. I got news for ya, it can't be done where many of us hunt, cause there's too much rough country between roads, and it might be 2-3 miles across that one section of country so rough there isn't even a 4 wheeler trail across it let alone a road.
You were the one insinuating that if you needed a long range collar your dog was trashing, and that you couldn't hear a dog a mile away.
All we did was explain to you why that if you really DID hunt in thin coon and rough country you WOULD need a long range tracker, and I did state I did hear a dog treed at 2.2 miles by GPS. Only time I ever really checked it, but mainly noticed it cause we had to walk so far to get to the dogs and I had a new GPS.
I have heard a great many dogs over a mile away, it's not uncommon and they don't have to be particularly loud. Voices carry in the mountains, roll down a holler etc. If the dogs get out of pocket, before trackers, we went to the top of the nearest ridge and listened. You could hear them a very long ways. At the same time the loudest dog that ever lived could be out of hearing in less than a minute if they go over the ridge and down the other side, but that don't mean when you drive around to get closer you don't hear him and still be a mile or two away later on. Same dog, different conditions. That's just in our little 2-3000 foot mountains, I can't imagine how far they could hear a dog in the Rockys like Utah etc.
Different parts of the country have different needs and different situations and the people asking about range had valid concerns. Those concerns didn't mean that they didn't know how far a mile was, nor that their dogs were trashing, just that in their country they need range.
I hunted with a garmin tonight and was impressed. If the dog does go out of range you can see on the map the nearest road to where he was last and try and get closer to him. In doing that you will likely pick the signal back up. It's pretty neat. If the leaves/cover don't mess with it much I can see why people are getting rid of their beep beeps.
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