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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.

Old Man, I agree with everything you said, in the moment my mind was focused on getting to the truck and getting those dogs back without getting him anymore frustrated. I could hear in his voice, he wasn’t exactly pleased with my dogs coming on his place, and I was glad he just didn’t shoot them.

T dog, same deal, you guys can articulate the facts much better than I can. But given the circumstances I just wanted to get them back and not let them get hit on the road or someone driving by picking them up. I was stressing out a little bit, in the end it turned out ok. We had a decent talk and if I end up over there again, I feel I have a better than average chance of a positive outcome.

Again in the moment being a mile and a half away from the truck, I took the diplomatic approach (which is not my norm), in an attempt to maintain cool heads for the well being of those dopey dogs.

make em, thank you.

nice looking dog/s

It’s probably better that it was you than me because I would’ve engaged him in the debate. Ask him what the 3 concerns of ANY wild animals are? Answer: Food, water, and safety Question 2 would be how many hogs is your trapper catching at a time,  how regular, and what is the average size of the hogs being caught? The how many is subjective to how many there are in the group to potentially be trapped and the type of trap being used. He might trap a few a day for a few days and then it’s likely over until all those bigger hogs that watched the dumb smaller ones get trapped have another litter, and he will catch fewer of the next litter because the sow will school the coachable pigs. Most of the trapped hogs will be big shoats and smaller sows, especially if the hogs have ever been exposed to traps before. Maybe he’s never had traps on his place before but likely someone in close proximity has. What is used to get the hogs to go in the trap? Food and when the dumb hogs go in and get trapped, the smart ones hang around and cause damage because their pigs are in the traps. Once the dumb ones are all caught, the smart ones keep coming to eat what food they can without jeopardizing being caught. So essentially you are just continuing to invite them. You aren’t giving them a reason to go elsewhere. Down here in our area we have a different dynamic than the oldman does where he’s at. We caught two sows one day that both weighed 170-180 each and both were close to pigging. Out of curiosity we cut them open to see how many pigs they were carrying. They had 12 a piece/24 total in them. Now how many would’ve survived out of those I don’t know, but it isn’t uncommon at all to bay 4-5 sows and them have 25-30 pigs between them. We have consistent groups of 50 or more hogs if you count grown hogs and pigs or shoats. Now what causes those litters to get smaller and what causes fewer sows to have pigs? Stress does and the only two stressors a wild hog has is Mother Nature and humans for the most part. We have watched litters go from every sow having multiple pigs to only one or two sows having 2-3 pigs during the droughts. Those litters also get smaller when they are getting pressured in every way possible by humans. That pressure takes its toll. The spreading them is absolutely bs too. There are too many cameras that prove that. I have seen numerous times that we’ve hit a place and catch multiple hogs in a day and that very evening or night the same group would be back on camera at a feeder or water hole again. They may scatter while we are hunting, but when we leave they regroup. They don’t just take off running every direction and put down roots wherever they run out of gas. I talked to a guy about a month ago. We were hunting and he was getting hogs out of a trap on the same property. We were in there about a week prior to that. He told me that he trapped 34 or 3500 head of hogs in 2025. That sounds like a lot but he has numerous traps and will trap anywhere within 50-60 miles of home, providing the land owner lets him know when there are hogs in the trap. That trapper you are speaking of is full of it and I would’ve told the land owner to not let people prey on his lack of wild hog knowledge. It should be insulting for people to think they can just blow smoke and manipulate you. I’d have told him that his trapper has an uneducated theory and that I have definitive proof and he was welcome to go with me anytime to see it first hand.


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