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  Oh and so far for how I hunt I haven't found any use for an expensive drive track.

  HAha, really I travel pretty light on the mule or on foot, no chest harness, no fanny packs, no snacks, once in a while I might put one bottle of water in the small cantle bag on the saddle (that I carry dog leashes in so I don't get hung up with them around my shoulder in case of a wreck of some sort). Usually I just leave the truck with a bellyful of water, and on my belt I have my hunting knife, 2 sets of hobbles, spare batteries for the handheld (which with the 300I you don't need as they don't use nearly as much battery as the old ones even though it is the same battery), and the handheld in a case on the belt.
  If they are way way over there and I can't track them on the hand held, I just look where they are or where they last were on the long range and head that way. I'll give you a tip that you may or may not know about looking for dogs that have gotten completely out of comm range, click your pointer on the dog in question, zoom in to 100 yds or less and if you happen to get one quick bump when you aren't looking at the screen, when you do look there will be a straight line leading off the screen, zoom out until you see the dog in question.  You can drive without constantly staring at the screen, or walk/ride through tough stuff until it is convenient to look. Sometimes if dogs are way off in rough country you might just pass through a small window of comms and could miss it other wise.

You need to rig you up some sort of holster on the back of your horse/mules head stall or your saddle horn for one of those drive tracks. It wouldn’t matter at that point if you were good or bad at the sport, you’d look like you knew what you’re doing and I hear that’s 90% of it. They’d be calling you a pioneer. The man that represents where the past meets the present.


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  Some more real good hunts, as always great numbers. A positive reflection on you and yours.

  There can be some comfort in discovering you aren't necessary. Needy people can be pain.

  I have a set of mule brand chaps and a mule brand shirt that will absolutely without fail turn the briars, but my poor old face still gets scratched up pretty regularly when riding.  When it's real hot I don't wear them and will find thorns in my legs and arms days later that I didn't even know I had gotten.

  It sounds like your 18 mo old dogs are pretty much made, I'm always concerned with the ice. I guess not too much though because we hunt when it is frozen and or starting to thaw. Guess I'm not intelligent enough to be intimidated.

  That 500 yds and not getting them is also the exception rather than the rule.

 I have a long range antenna hooked to an old 320 I leave in the truck, but under the right conditions (from high elevations with no obstructions between me and the dog) I have gotten them over 10 miles, the exception rather than the rule. Once in WV I had a dog out of pocket from a split race and while trying to find him I got a signal from 20 some odd miles, I knew that couldn't be my dog, but zooming out to pin point where that signal was coming from, it was on a distant mountain top and I was up on another.
 By the same token if they are over a sharp high spot, or off in a deep hole sometimes 500 yds will not show them.   

Great dog work