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 I believe if hunting hogs with dogs affected trapping in any measurable way, other nations like Australia and Japan whose government agencies are for the most part in not dog hunter friendly would have ended the practice long ago. 

We get pretty good reception most of the time. Usually .75-1 mile before we lose reception. Our biggest reception problems usually happen on places that have a lot of iron ore. I’m guessing there’s a certain magnetism in that stuff that affects it because it seems to affect the garmin compass too.


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Two things promote learning. The most common promoter are hard lessons. If you walk head on into a tree, you either either learn to walk around it or suffer the consequences. The second promoter is want to. If a person wants to learn they can be taught. Those that want to learn are usually the open minded type. Close minded people learn anything they learn the hard way if they learn it at all.


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Good hunt and good looking dogs.

A lot of times its not worth the hassle. People have their mind made up.

Its the same thing, that the dogs run deer off. We all know it doesnt! Cell cameras prove the fact over and over.

The guys that run deer dogs will have a buck on camera and run him, try to kill him. That same buck will be on the same corn pile that evening. But you can show a deer hunters the picture with the proof and they still wont believe you!

When I hunt out of my hunting truck I have a 100 that is mounted on a triple mag mount antenna. I have a tuned truck antenna mounted to the body of the truck also that runs off the garmin frequencies (151-154 mhz) that I have hooked to my VHF truck radio. I can swap them both with each other if needed.

On my buggy I have 2 tuned antennas one for the garmin 100 and other vhf radio. I use the drive track.....because I cant see worth a flip and the numbers are not big enough on the garmin! LOL

I use a 220i on me with a folding antenna because I use the chest rig from dans and the other antennas are in your face all the time. Lot a guys like it around there neck. But it drives me crazy dangling when I am trying to tie a hog.

I think the terrain and location makes the biggest difference. I hunt a place near a huge power plant on the coast. Even with the best long range antenna the gamin struggles at 300-500yds max. I guess from all the electrical interference. Where out in the far places far from anything it gets much more.

Sounds like good hunt sounds like they are wanting to work

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I have a hound recovery on my buggy it works better than other long range antennas I have tried

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 The hound recovery system antenna with the long vertical and 4 short horizontal antennas at the base seems to be the best long range one. On the 300I handheld I use the buzzard roost 16 inch antenna but hunting with other people I don't see much difference in any of the flexible antennas. I did learn just today I needed to enable the GNSS satellite systems in conjunction with the normal GPS satellite system. It has had that capability all along it just wasn't activated. Curious to see if that increases the range, but doubt it will because while hunting I never get a lost satellite reception notice, just the question on the dog due to the lost telemetry signal on the dog.
  What I had noticed was that when I have the handheld in the house charging it says "lost satellite reception, do you want to enable the GNSS" I had noticed it before in the house but was hesitant to enable it because I didn't know what if any problem it would cause, "tech dinosaur" so I inquired about it with Garmin. All it does is enable many more satellites in case of failure to connect with the normal GPS satellites.
  I don't understand why they need the old radio telemetry signal along with the satellite signals. It looks to me like if the satellite is what locates the dog on the map we'd no longer need the radio telemetry signal. And that in itself would greatly extend the range. All I know is that's an fcc deal.
 

Hey at the end of the day you gotta do what you think is best for you and your dogs. You were there to know the mod and situation.


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In light of recent discussion regarding people’s differing experiences with the range of their tracking devices, I found a box that had some accessories. A roof mount antenna, a mag mount and a long range, metal, telescoping antenna. I’ve been using the longer rubber duck antenna for years, but seeing that I’m going out in the morning, I installed the new antenna on my alpha 100.

Will report my findings after the hunt.

That is all.