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Sh Robinson
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Garmin vs Sport Dog

Has anyone switched from a garmin system to a sport dog system or vise versa? What were the reasons you switched?

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houndsound
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Sheridan, WY
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I switched from a Garmin to Dogtra.

I had the older Garmin without shocking / beeping capabilities. I wanted to upgrade to a unit with correction abilities.

In the end for me the Pathfinder was a much better deal.
- Much more user friendly and easy to use.
- Better maps, quality and screen size
- Maps are free, nothing to purchase or subscribe to
- Way cheaper

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Pat Bizich
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Registered: May 2004
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I owned the older tri tonics 2 mile model . It had no toner but it worked great. Unfortunately Garmin chose to discard this one Stopped selling batteries. Forced many to buy newer released models. The newer more reasonably priced replacement model 70 is advertised at 1 mile. Has a toner and remotely controlled light. It absolutely does not have anywhere near 1 mile. Matter of fact I can see my dog 70 yards away and they don't get disciplined. Had one running bad track about 100 yards one night. Had to repeatedly hit the button holding the transmitter high before I got a reaction. When you need instant discipline to an action not 5 seconds after the fact later it ticks me off tremendously.
Guy I hunt with has a Sportdog 2525.
This one absolutely works like right now.
Only thing I don't like about them are the ease of setting them up or adding collars. Garmin got them beat hands down on that respect.
,The Sportdog. has 3 different levels of stimulus on the collar and several different ones on the transmitter. I think 6 on the dial and if you push two transmitter buttons at same time it increases intensity. Has a toner and a vibration level. to me it is a little more complicated to learn the workings but it definitely IMO out performs the Garmin 70 model I have.

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bigdiezel79
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Registered: Jan 2008
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I have been trying to decide on one or the other myself. Seems like which ever one people have they like. I had a 320 was pleased with it other than the subscription stuff you had to buy. My biggest issue is I’m not a fan of using my phone in the woods. I have a old phone that has no service so I’m not sure that would work with that unit....

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Paul Frederick
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Ditch both of them and get the Dogtra Pathfinder. Me and a few of my hunting buddies switched and I couldn't be happier.

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Lone Pine JB
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Brookville, PA
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I had a Dogtra and sent it back and got the Alpha.

Dogtra does have better maps. But only if you have good cell signal or can download them beforehand. I didn't have it long enough or use enough to have issues other than the mapping. In my area there is little to no cell signal. If I had a separate phone that was only for Dogtra like Bruce suggested, perhaps I could load enough maps to make it useful. But my phone doesn't have the storage capability to store all the maps I would need just to hunt local spots. I really didn't like idea of going to a hunt (where you have no idea where you'll be hunting and if there is cell signal) to find out you don't have maps. Again, with a better phone, I could probably download half the state.

Another reason I switched to Alpha. That's what all my hunting buddies use. We can trade collars, chargers, antennae, whatever in a pinch.

Some guys love the Dogtra, like I said the maps are far better and with a newer model phone with more storage it might be great. But overall, I'll stick with Alpha for now.

I think it really comes down to the phone you're using it with. If you have a good quality phone you'll like Dogtra. If you're hard on phones and run cheap ones or wife's hand me down (like me) the Alpha is a better choice.

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Sh Robinson
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I have used the garmin astro 220 and the 320 for several years now but I am getting tired of them losing signal on my dogs and I had heard that the sport dog unit didn't loose signal .I have never seen any body using using or pushing the sport dog unit.

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Driftwoodblue
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Registered: Aug 2011
Location: Emporia, Kansas
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I bought a Sportdog 3225 about 3 years ago.. being rather hard of hearing.and the fact that it is too complicated to set up I found it rather useless. now if you are a electronic wizard and can hear those little beeps to program the darn thing every time you go to use it fine ,but for me I will stick to a Garmin with dials to set stuff.
in fact my Garmin Pro 550 Plus is to arrive today

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