Do you mean something like this?

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My buddy has one and he loves his. He has a 5-bay built out of conduit and expanded metal.

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This will be interesting to hear.

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Justin that was the main go to man at Custom Collars in Opp, AL is now paired up with Show in Go of Mississippi and Justin has a satellite office in AL.  They are only on FB, they don't have a web page.

I cannot say that I have had one shock but I have had one tone or beep.  I was hunting in a National Forest and lots of other Alphas around and I know that there was another collar with the same ID as mine with another hunting party because I would pick it up if I didn't have that collar even on.  One day I was standing beside my box and I hear one of the collars beeping and my unit was on my dash.  The dog in the box was looking at me like I haven't done anything, I'm just sitting here in the box. 

I have never read that but it is electrical and if it shorted out somehow I think it would be possible.

Growing up this is how we had our dogs but they were running walker fox/deer dogs. We had a farm and had plenty of land and no neighbors. Had a hot wire at top and bottom, one shed in each pen with a shelf so some of the dogs could get off the ground if they wanted to.  #3 washtubs for water, had 2 or 3 in each pen. Had 2 100lb self feeders in each pen.

We live in Panhandle Florida and I can tell you we fought fleas all my life. 

I'm grown now and all my dogs are in 5x10 wood floor kennels about 2ft off ground, auto waters, horse panel walls and metal roof overhead. The dogs cannot dig out, climb out or chew out. You can monitor there stools every day which has helped in health problems if one arises earlier rather than when the dog is already down. Downside is you have to do something with their waste every few years as I don't have a septic system.  You have to feed each dog every day but I have my food bowels screwed to the floor and a shut/funnel type thing that you pour their food down into the bowl so you don't have to open the door. This is helpful when you have to get someone feed if you are out of town.

Personally I have no plans on going back to large pens. Would it be better for exercise,  most definitely.  If you do build remote I would still suggest individual pens. If a fight broke out off site you can just about bet you gonna have a dead dog the next time you went to them or at least a vet bill(had it happen more than once growing up). Just some food for thought.

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Looking good Scotty!

A couple buddies and myself were talking the other day about trying to make a few out of state hunts in the near future. I figured I would post on here to see if any of y’all would be interested in swapping a hunt.

I have access to several thousand acres of Tombigbee and Blackwarrior River swamp land in south Alabama that is loaded with hogs. I would be interested in swapping hunt for hunt with someone with equal quality land in different states. I’m not interested in places with low hog numbers and low acreage. We hunt silent curs that are med-long range in no sign (cast dogs). We are really just looking to experience some different areas/terrain and meet some new hunters.

If this is something that you maybe interested in let me know and we can work out the details.
 

Would love to do this but the problem is you state you are loaded with hogs so you would probably be disappointed coming down to SE AL, SW GA and North FL to hunt with us.  We average about 200 hogs a year but it is tough hunting and hard hunting, 2-4 days a week.  This last year we were low due to the damages to the woods from Hurricane Michael.   

Good luck with this.

It's an old one, Hero 2 I believe.
I think they have about a 7 out by now.

I used to run a GoPro on a bicycle helmet because it had a chin strap and was pretty light.  Only problem I had was when going in under vines and thick brush it would get hung up.  It done great and showed a lot of what was going on even up close because it was always point where you were looking.

The biggest problem to me was going back and editing the video, extremely time consuming or either I wasn't doing something correct.

I haven't run it in the past two years because of that. 

I live and hunt in the Panhandle area and was born and raised here.  I also hunt in SW GA and SE AL and have much better luck at obtaining land in the other states.  Even guys that I grew up with that farm don't really like people on their land or they will tell you aw we really don't have a hog problem.  Just something about this FL land is hard to obtain.  Not sure what part of FL you are in but good luck with it.

Anyone use this ? I used it this weekend chasing hounds all weekend and loved it . It stays with the dog,totally hands free. I'm buying 1 end of the month for sure.

Just a FYI if you use waypoints on your Alpha they will not transfer to the Drivetrack.  That is the only reason I haven't bought one.

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Most definitely. Problem we having in the Tri-States of FL-AL-GA is those hunters are convincing the land owner to not let us dog hunters in there to hunt because all we do is "scatter" the hogs.  We tell all of our land owners that you need to be shooting,  trapping and killing them with dogs if you want to get ahead otherwise you will fall behind.   We hunt farm land so the farmers want them all dead.

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I hear you son, y'all working on them.
Good Deal.

Those are both great stories and I'm with Rough curs I was rolling.

Black Streak I agree a 100%, "Staying off the spca radar is key."
That is why when I was told it was illegal I said "Oh ok, never mind then".

I am not going to pursue it  any further.  I just wanted to through my little bit of information out there in an attempt to keep someone else off the radar.

That is a big guilt, she will be some fine eating there.  Y'all boys look a little muddy and wet to getting to the first hog. 
Good hogs and dog work.

If a fella were to get into any legal trouble for doing this it may cost a little money but can easily be beaten just by the verbiage of that statute itself, no one would “unnecessarily” freeze brand a dog, it is “necessary” to help in deterring theft, same argument could be thrown up about removing dewclaws, docking tails, and ear cropping, which are all performed every day by state licensed veterinarians all over the state of Florida, now all those are “unnecessarily mutilating” and in 99% of instances where it’s done is strictly for cosmetic reasons and personal preferences by the owner, just use common sense and don’t go posting all over social media what your doing, or telling a lot folks who don’t need to know, do what you gotta do in a humane manner and be done with it, once it’s done it’s done and if they don’t catch you in the act or have hard evidence of cruelty against you such as a video of you actually performing the branding then they have no leg to stand on...

Goose87 I agree that I believe it could be won in a court of law and I thought about contacting a lawyer and try and push the issue but in some cases I believe it is best to just leave a sleeping dog lye.  I even tried to explain to the person at the Dept of Ag that the reason I was wanting to do it was for a visual identification purpose and that I already have my dogs (most of them) microchipped but that is only good if they show up at a vet or the pound.  I wanted something so that if someone saw the dog and was thinking about steeling him the brand might would make them think twice about it.  They cannot see the microchip in the dog you know.  I also hunt in the national forest and there are a lot of people from all over the state and from AL and GA that hunt down there and I have never lost a dog to theft in 40 years but you just never know.  I did have to run a truck down one time back when we had beep beeps and take my dog out of the mans box, he said oh I was going to bring him to you, REALLY???

I try to abide by the rules, I take very good care of my dogs and I spend a lot of money doing so, just ask my vets that see my dogs.  I take pride in being able to control my dogs and I call them off hogs all of the time due to not having permission on some properties and that is how I get to hunt a lot of land that I hunt is because I can and do stop my dog at the property line and the land owners have seen it first hand and will tell you they just cannot believe it.  I was wanting to register my brand with the state so that I was following all of the rules but I could tell that I was talking with a person in Tallahassee that had no clue about the hunting or cattle world so I thought is was best to just try and remove myself from the conversation.  I live in a rural part of FL and outside of a very small town so I shouldn't have any issues but I don't want or need the doggie police coming around my place snooping around. 

I just wanted to through this bit of info out there so that I know a lot of people put stuff on FB and that would be a huge no no.  I would love to post pictures of my hunts but honestly I don't post anything on FB very often just for this reason.  I don't want people knowing my business.  If I post a picture of a hunting trip I always cut the hog out of the picture. 

The spca is not a common sense organization.     They have the pockets and backing of the leftist gov.   I'll just leave it at. 

I agree 100% Black Streak that is why I didn't push the issue with the Dept of Ag here in FL.  I just told the individual ok and thanks for their time.

Just wanted to share a personal experience I just had about Freeze Branding dogs.  Just to let everyone know don't go to your Department of Agriculture and "register" your brand that you put on your dog.  1st they won't register it and 2nd if they find out you "branded" your dog they will report it as animal cruelty.  I explained that I wanted to do it as a form of identification like the micro chipped but for a visual form instead of the dog having to be carried to a vet or pound.  The person I spoke with stated they only govern "livestock" and stated again that if it was reported the dogs had been branded it would be reported as animal cruelty. 

I live in FL and this is the statue that he sent to me;

"585.01“Livestock” means grazing animals, such as cattle, horses, sheep, swine, goats, other hoofed animals, ostriches, emus, and rheas which are raised for private use or commercial purposes."

I asked for the statue about "branding" being an act of animal cruelty and he did not have it.  I have searched for hours and have not found it specifically but did find some that with the world we live in today would be questionable.  I have also researched this for AL, LA and TX and they all have the same or basically the same definition of "Livestock". 

So this being said I hope we have no fake dog people patrolling this site and for all of us dog men's sake DO NOT put anything on FaceBook about branding your dogs or you could have the Dog Police showing up confiscating your dogs due to cruelty and then you would have you a fight on your hands and spend unknown amounts of money trying to defend your actions.  Just food for thought.