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I can tell you that you won't be changing batteries every other day with Marshall collars. I don't keep real close track on my hunting time, but, I know I make well over 50 hunts on one set of batteries. At least 5-6 hundred hours, probably a little more. One magnet, turn every collar on or off. When the charge indicator light starts blinking red you still have a hundred hours or more to hunt. Treed and down dog indicator built in. Changing the collar strap is a piece of cake, or you can wrap a piece of colored electrical tape around the strap. I am sitting here looking at 8 different colors of tape right now.

Not looking to start an argument with anyone, but I have owned or hunted with nearly every brand of telemetry collar out there and the Marshall collars hit my receiver harder, much harder, than any other brand. I have a Yaesu VR500 receiver and I can track any frequency. On many hunts, even with several hunting partners along and a lot of different collars, it was the only receiver ever turned on. Before we got used to the Marshall collars we would often think that the dog(s) wearing them were closer because the signal strength was stronger, when in reality they were just as far as the dogs wearing other brands of collars.

Marshalls are smaller and lighter on your dog, have an excellent collar strap and IMO the best antenna. You change the batteries yourself and don't have to wonder how much charge is left in the battery. Someone else may have a different experience, but, after thousands of hours in the woods if I use a telemetry collar it will be a Marshall. For the last 3 years we have used Garmin, and it is the best, but still put telemetry on our dogs most of the time, especially when hunting new territory.

Comparing a Johnson to a Marshall collar is a joke. Johnson isn't even a flea on a dogs ass compared to a Marshall. I'd say about once a month or so I'd have to change a couple batteries, and that is hunting for hours on end, days upon days. Even with the lights on. I could see where having a 16,000 hour collar would be appealing to a weekend warrior, the collar life would probably last the dogs whole life. I've had and used extensively just about every brand of telemetry collar. Johnson, Wildlife, Klien, WCT, ATS, Rats, Quicktrack, Magnum and Marshall. The only brand even remotely close to a Marshall is Magnum. I have about 10 Johnson collars that I let sit on a shelf, they were my other halfs deceased fathers. I sent them back to have them redone by Johnson, you could barely beep the collar unless you were standing in sight of the dogs, and they all went dead in about 6 months. I finally just sent them in again to Magnum to have them redone, and they are better collars than they ever were. I use them now for puppy collars and extras, as with GPS there isn't even a need for them.

I have to put my vote for marshall we have changed pretty much all our wildlife and other collars out for them they beep farther and stronger than the rest some guys complain about being able to pinpoint exact location I can't say I have had a problem when I get that close the garmin usualy picks up I run both collars here in Canada wouldn't turn a good hound out without a marshall and a garmin collar on it but that's just my opinion


Mike gagne
Raisinriver kennels

Marshall and the wildlife collars with two 3.6 volt batteries I think put out the strongest signal. But with either if you haul 10 hounds like I do deer hunting I can not track dogs from near the truck with dogs in the truck, I don't care how far apart the numbers are. With wildlife using one 3.6 volt battery, Johnson or quick track collars I can track dogs from the truck with other dogs in the truck. I use the wildlife with one 3.6 volt battery, replace battery's every Nov. pull the magnets, put collars on the dogs. The magnets don't go back in and the collars don't come off the dogs until the middle of Jan. I also have garmin, I love it but I will not turn a hound loose without telemetry.