LSO1103
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: London, Ky
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I was out of coon hunting for about 20 years and got back into it about 3 years ago. Back in the early '90s I hunted 6-7 nights a week. Obviously there was no such thing as GPS trackers back then and I never could afford a beep beep tracker so I didn't have one. When I got back into it and got familiar with GPS trackers, I now wouldn't turn a dog loose without one. I'm one that's guilty of standing there looking at my Alpha constantly and I'm 100% positive that I know way more about what my dog is doing now than I did back in the day of no tracking system. Back then, if my dog wasn't barking I had no idea what he/she was doing. It could have been setting a hundred yards out there setting on its butt and not doing nothing and I would have just assumed it was hunting. Now not only do I know what he's doing by listening to him when he's on a track or treed, I know what he's doing when he's not barking. When he's on a track, I can tell if he's back tracking. I can tell if circles the tree before he locks down on it. Sometimes the sucker will go silent on me but I can tell by watching him on the alpha that he's on a track. There's just so many things that I can know about what my dog is doing with the alpha now as compared to back in the day. IMO, the gps trackers are the best thing to come along for coon hunting since battery powered lights.
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