I have a mt8000 and love it, I have some old 150-151 collars along with 217 collars. As of ease you just program all your collars in and just scroll to the one you want to track, I have mine entered by dogs name and just go to the dog you want to track.

I had a mt.cur gyp that was a good pack dog with lots of grit so I decided to cross her with my sons bluetick and they turned out to be track running machines, alot colder nosed than their mother but has her grit, not afraid of a mean bear.

I've hunted both ways and prefer using trackers, when running bear your dogs usually end up far from where you turn loose. My dogs will come out to someones house eventually but you never know what kind of people might live there so I like to recover them as soon as possible.

the last time I talked to them they said they hoped to have it out this year but wasnt going to put it out until they had it the way they wanted it to perform

the shocker on the sportdog just attaches to the collar, it can be removed if needed or you can buy it seperate and add later. marshall is coming out with a gps with telemetry combined in case your dog doesnt have a girraffe neck.

the shocker can be removed, it just fasten's to the gps collar in which if it goes bad just take it off for repair or you can buy it later and add to your collar. Marshall is coming out with a gps that has telemetry built in with their gps collar so you dont have a dog with a host of collars on his ...

has anyone ever used scents to break a dog off deer with success

not so much in kill season but most of the time in training season with 2 or 3 dogs, it gets kinda hard if you get in a rough place to handle any more dogs than that. I also have a dog that if there is more than 4 or 5 dogs at the tree he leaves and goes hunting again as if to say you dont need me ...

dont know about utah but a buddy of mine had one die of heat stroke the other day in wv, this dog had been hunted hard all year to.

I am new to this site so I dont know what the main hunting subject is, but I mostly bear hunt and have been using my treeing curs that I use to coon hunt. They are a cross between a mt.cur and bluetick and are starting to do pretty well. Looking forward to using this site for future dogs and any ...