chewy97 wrote:
I am planning on buying a tracking system in the near future. I have read post after post on garmin somethings good somethings bad. I have hunted with quick track systems in my younger days and always found the dogs. I live in the mountains of pa so terrain is a big factor on which system I get. What does the garmin have over the radio systems as far a tracking ability. I don't need the bells and whistles of maps and to know what my dog is doing on an electronic device I just need to be able to find them when they decide they want to do something dumb.
I use garmin's ,, but I always use a wildlife radio collar on each of my dogs as a back up..... So whats that tell ya.
garmins are great, but for a all out lost dog I want the radio collar . garmins are prone to fail sooner or later,, radio collars just beep on,, beepin on.. I repair tracking systems.. I always have garmins to work on because they just stop working. often while a valuable dog was wearing it.. leaving the finding of the dog back to luck and a name tag.. I very seldom have a radio collar in here because it just stopped working. but like I said ,, I have a garmin, but I also back it up with a reliable radio collar. garmins are great till they fail..