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Lonestar Hog Doggers
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« on: March 22, 2013, 10:40:48 am » |
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Which would y'all prefer just the garmin alpha or would you carry astro and trash breaker?
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justincorbell
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 11:01:43 am » |
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try and search the garmin alpha on here, I have seen a few reviews and the general concensus seems to be that the alpha unit is real nice but the range on the collars is way shorter than the astro's.......I don't have any first hand exp. that is just what I have read on here about em.
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"stupids in the water these days, they're gonna drink it anyway." - Chris Knight
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Reuben
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2013, 12:58:35 pm » |
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try and search the garmin alpha on here, I have seen a few reviews and the general concensus seems to be that the alpha unit is real nice but the range on the collars is way shorter than the astro's.......I don't have any first hand exp. that is just what I have read on here about em.
what is the best all around unit???for battery life and range???I don't care about the training part of the garmin...they should of had radio telemetry in its place... |
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
A hunting dog is born not made...
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Lonestar Hog Doggers
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2013, 03:12:09 pm » |
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I've heard people say that the range isn't that great either, I guess it just depends on if you get a good unit or not, I have a 220 and I haven't had one problem out of it yet
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doggin
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2013, 03:32:56 pm » |
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I have heard the same about the alpha, I run a 320 and tri tronics
And everything works out great
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cuttingup
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2013, 10:00:25 pm » |
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I run an astro 320 ive had super luck with it... real good range also..and i run a separate shock system it has around 650 yard range...
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Let em roll boyz...get ahead !
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slckhunter1978
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2013, 12:30:03 am » |
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Same thing i was just looking for reviews on the garmin alpha. The touchscreen kinda worries me. Duribility and possibility of accidently shocking dogs? Can anyone that owns this system give me some insight plz. Tracking and training range also? Thanks
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Hunt hard or go home!
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justincorbell
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2013, 01:09:59 pm » |
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try and search the garmin alpha on here, I have seen a few reviews and the general concensus seems to be that the alpha unit is real nice but the range on the collars is way shorter than the astro's.......I don't have any first hand exp. that is just what I have read on here about em.
what is the best all around unit???for battery life and range???I don't care about the training part of the garmin...they should of had radio telemetry in its place... Mr. Reuben I dont want to lie to you, i dont own any shock collars. I have owned the garmin astro 220 and 320 the dc30 on the 220 gave me way better range than my 320 with dc40's to be honest, i like the 320 unit and the dc30's mysekf |
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"stupids in the water these days, they're gonna drink it anyway." - Chris Knight
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Reuben
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2013, 02:12:32 pm » |
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Justin...thanks...I heard that Marshall might not put out a GPS tracking system...don't know for sure about that but I am now thinking of possibly buying a Garmin...I see how the Garmin can be very beneficial to have one in use...
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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justincorbell
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2013, 04:47:08 pm » |
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Justin...thanks...I heard that Marshall might not put out a GPS tracking system...don't know for sure about that but I am now thinking of possibly buying a Garmin...I see how the Garmin can be very beneficial to have one in use...
I love mine due to the fact that my dogs are silent. Some days id just as soon go back to 1 good open hound that would stay with my currs........i catch myself staring at my garmin all the time and i hate it, i like being in the woods to look and see the woods not look at a little computer screen.......i get enough of that at work! I will say though with the dogs I have now it would be dumb not to use a garmin, often times they get way out of ear shot......wish they stayed a bit closer but o well, they hunt. Guess its a danged if u do danged if you dont thing |
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"stupids in the water these days, they're gonna drink it anyway." - Chris Knight
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Bowtech99
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2013, 07:00:14 pm » |
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if your real worried about it, get a quicktrak haha. We never hunted with collars until just recently.
I've spent nights in my truck, waking up on the hour blowing the horn waiting on a dog.
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firemedic
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2013, 09:40:31 pm » |
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A major drawback with the Alpha, for me, would be that you cannot track the DC 30 and 40 collars.....therefore all the folks that you hunt with would have to have an Alpha system as well for you to be able to track their dogs and vice versa. I have a 220 that I used since they came out and now have a 320 since the first of the year.....I have 3 DC40 collars. I can't tell any difference in the tracking of the 220 or 320......but it seems that I've had less trouble with dogs being dropped by the 320. I use one of those extendable folding antennas and it works very well for me. I can keep in contact with dogs at over 2 miles in rather flat terrain. Plus the 320 has the Birdsyeye which, where I hunt, is the finest thing since a pocket on a shirt.
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slckhunter1978
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2013, 11:22:31 pm » |
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Yeah those extendable foldable antennas are the best by far. I bought one and broke it within 2 weeks so i bought a lot of 6 of them off ebay and just broke my second one of them 2 years later  - thats the only drawback for me with them is they are easy to break but they keep signal further by about a quarter of a mile for me over any other and i have tried all of them! |
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Easttex91
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2013, 12:12:29 am » |
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I don't like how the charger hooks up on the 30's haven't messed with a 40 yet
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Reuben
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« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2013, 05:22:40 am » |
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if your real worried about it, get a quicktrak haha. We never hunted with collars until just recently.
I've spent nights in my truck, waking up on the hour blowing the horn waiting on a dog.
I remember those days...  I appreciate all the Garmin comments...all the first hand field experience sure is great...hopefully I will get the best system the first time around just from y'alls learnin's... |
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
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firemedic
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« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2013, 10:42:26 am » |
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Reuben,....if you're wishing to run a shock collar along with a tracking collar of some kind, ......the Garmin collars are long enough to thread the Tri-tronics receiver onto the collar with the Garmin receiver. I've done that several times.
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Irondog87
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2013, 12:21:02 pm » |
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I rly like the Garmin for training pups! U can see every move they make and which pup is picking up the trail faster or which one is just following the other and might need more work by itself to show that it needs to hunt and not follow. Hunting is nice when the dogs get out of hearing range and when going back to the truck.
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