Message #103959

[Hog Dog Mike]

My name is Murphy and I am the guy that they wrote the law about.

I hunt alot down around Franklin, Tx. and several of the guys I hunt with have Garmins. Sometimes they work great--I have seen 3 different ones working at the same time and did a good job on that one hunt.

Other times the collars got the antennas torn off and then they were inop. Sometimes they lose signal for a while and I don't know why this happens. One hunt they were not able to use them because they would not lock on the collars. They seem to have alot of trouble with the batteries.

One hunt I will not forget. They had Garmins on two dogs and we were in a bunch of hogs. The hogs swam to an island in a lake. The dogs went after them and when they hit the water that was it for them. No signal--no nothing.  We caught one hog but evidently the others broke and left the country taking the dogs with them. We rounded everything up except the dogs with the Garmins. One dog was found the next day and the best dog was not found for 17 days.

I have a Wildlife TRX-10 and it works. A little more bulky but when you turn it on and track a dog you WILL pick up a signal. If you use the ear phones you can get pretty close on the range.

I know that they are probably the future but for now I am sticking to what works for me.