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With alot of guys using the garmin lets hear of some of the distances dogs ran before the catch. Short or long lets hear them all. This is the first year I have used the garmin and I would never have believed some of my races with out seeing for my self , Shortest 2.36 miles longest 14.58 miles and this tom never did tree finally ran him in a culvert. Andy

Andy I've had a Garmin all this year and 1/2 of last year and this last weekend was the first time i noticed you can see how far your dog has went. but last weekend on a lion chase. from truck to tree back to truck the dogs went 9.8 miles. Pretty neat feature.

Andy, are you talking about what the Astro tracks or after you download the collar? You'll see a distinct difference between the two. Depending on what intervol(5,10 or 30 sec) your using the Astro only measures straight lines between the logged points. If you download the collar it will give you a point every three seconds, no matter if you have signal or not.

I've had my Astro tell me a run was around a 12 miles when in actuality the collar went over 40. When I ended up leaving the dogs out over night up the East Rosebud I dowloaded the collar off my female and she had over 45 miles. On another lion fiasco she logged over 60 miles. I know that it adds some distance while treeing, but not that many.

Scott

Scott, I am sorta like Jason when it comes to this new fangled stuff I am just reading what the astro says the collar has went, didnt know there was any other way to do it. I am lucky just to remember to turn them on. Andy

Andy, I understand. It took me quite a while to finally dig into it and figure out all that they can do. The elevation plot can also tell you a lot about the days adventure as well. To do most of the really cool stuff you have to hook it to the computer and download it to the mapsource program. A lot of the features are completely useless but interesting none the less.

Scott

Are you sure about that Scott? I park my truck, turn the dog's out, and usually walk less than a mile and make a loop back to the truck. I have one dog that ranges out 2-6 hundred yard's and when I get back to the truck after about an hour, the Garmin show's that he traveled 9-10 mile's at an average speed of 7-8 m.p.h. That seem's about right.
Mike

desertdog wrote:Are you sure about that Scott? I park my truck, turn the dog's out, and usually walk less than a mile and make a loop back to the truck. I have one dog that ranges out 2-6 hundred yard's and when I get back to the truck after about an hour, the Garmin show's that he traveled 9-10 mile's at an average speed of 7-8 m.p.h. That seem's about right.
Mike

Mike, My dogs don't average anywhere near that speed. Usually around 3 or 4 MPH while on track. The two examples are RARE instances. The dogs were out for almost 24 hours on the long one and the other was 36 hours. Like I said, they are not common occurances. Most of the days running lions are 10-20 miles or so. I'm not a die hard bobcat chaser but the couple times I ran one were complete wrecks. One day was 30 or so miles and we never saw the cat and the other is the 36 hour expedition and I didn't see that cat either. The latter one they were treed overnight and I followed the cat and dog tracks within a couple hundred yards and the cat decided to leave. The dogs went another 7 miles after the jump. It was a really loooooong wreck. Up in the mountains the bobcats can really put the screws to ya it seems.

It seems as though it's a rare day when I park the truck and get back within 6 hours.

Scott

Twist,

On a Big Loverboy Tom away from home lokking for LUV....Astro 220 showed that we took this old Tom 8.7 miles back home....collars showed that the Hounds ran over 30 miles to do this!

Race lasted just over 2 hours.

This is the longest that I have downloaded the Collars on. Generally what I ahve found when I have down loaded is that the Hounds end up traveling 3 to 4 times what the Astro shows.

Sure wish I was smart enough to play with all the features this Wonderful contraption can do! However I might leave the AMX Card home, but the Garmins is going if we are going Hunting!

CJC

shortest way less than a mile longest 9 miles back and forth and changing country during breeding season.
but 60 miles no way you either need to fix your garmin or change dogs or both

BARTAMENKO wrote:shortest way less than a mile longest 9 miles back and forth and changing country during breeding season.
but 60 miles no way you either need to fix your garmin or change dogs or both

Your right, you know way more than I do about my dogs and what the garmin says than my computer does. I should just as you from now on what my dogs did and what to replace them with.

Thanks for all the valuable advice.

Scott

I wasn't questioning Scott's dog's covering those distance's, I'm just suprised that the Garmin isn't giving an accurate distance that the dog/collar is traveling. I just assumed if the unit said the dog went 10 mile's, it was correct.
Mike

Bartamenko,

I've seen 50 to 60 miles several times, especially in the fall on dry ground. If you are doubting that this guy has had his dogs go 60 miles, then I'm doubting you've been on many chases.

i have never checked mine , do you have to start new hunt when you start a track. and the 60 mile cat race was probably a coyote. jmpo.

jc

9.6 miles in the rocks on a 8 pound female bob

I just measure in minutesa couple lately---in under 2minutes[jumped]the long ones 15-20 minutes.Much more than this----1 of 2 things going on 1.) dogs are making way to many mistakes-cats been ran some/most of the time. 2.) I was going to say conditions[but I hate a cop out]So I'll say,I start to wonder why they're not pressuring the sucker enough????
Tim