GPS VS TELMETRY

[houndcrazy93]

Hey everyone I was wondering wich you perfer, if you had to only run one for the rest of your life, I'm just wondering because my first tracking think I bought was garmin, and I kinda feel I should have started with an old school one first, but I just bought a telemtry one so I'm gonna start using that more and wanted to know what you guys do

[zachvu]

I don't think too many people "prefer" telemetry over gps, but I don't think there is any one person on here that completely trusts their astro dog enough to run it solo and not be worried!

[Runningdeer]

I think the two reasons people prefer telemetry are battery life and range. Some dogs are not easily caught before the Garmin collar battery dies. If Garmin corrects that problem, I think the telemetry manufacturers may shut down.

[FullCryHounds]

The two previous replies pretty much sum it up perfectly.

[chilcotin hillbilly]

I us only Garmin and trust them to get the job done. I have used them 2 1/2 years , over 200 trees with lions, bears and lynx and have never had them go dead. Even if you drop the odd collar, all your dogs should be close together. Teaching the dogs to respond and quit a track with tritronics is just as valuable.

[Bearkiller]

[bearcat]

I know a lot of people with garmins, but I don't know anybody that runs only garmin, no telemetry collars. I know a couple people that only run garmin on a few of there dogs and telemetry on all of them, and I know a couple that run telemetry on a few and garmin on all of them, and quite a lot that run only telemtry, (myself included) but nobody that trusts the garmin enough to only run them.

[ferjr]

This year I have only ran my Garmins, with no problems I might add. Actualy I only used a telemetry collar once this year, only reason is when I got out and checked the battery life on all my garmins I saw that one only had one bar of battery life, I forgot to charge it, I used a telemetry collar just in case but I never had to use it, the Garmin lasted the race.

[cougarhound]

[zachvu]

Our Garmins seem to lose the dogs after about a mile, past that we'll pick em up but not constantly. Everyone we hunt with (20-30 dogs out on the trucks or running somewhere in the area) runs both. A couple days on the Garmin battery doesn't seem like too much peace of mind, but a telemetry that'll run for a month makes all my worries go away!

[ferjr]

[zachvu]

[KIP]

garmins will let a silent dog or ones with a poor voice be found alot easier and faster not to mention let you get to the tree/game in a better amount of time . Less time wasted looking for routes , lost dogs and such.

the telemetry is tried and true and will last a long time, but the signal bounce is really bad in some situations and can send you on a wild goose chase.

if one could extend the batterry life on the garmin collars even if the weight was increased with a secondary battery i think it would improve how people feel about it

[zachvu]

[ferjr]