did someone tell garmin that hound hunters spend half their time shocking the hell outta their dogs or something? i don't know anyone who was wishing for a piggybacked gps/shocker system. just more money for a feature that i don't need.

so they taunt and tease us with all these new features that would be awesome for what we are doing, but to hell if i am going to throw out the thousands of dollars in gear i already have. im just totally floored by this. i just dont know what to say. live and die by garmin i guess.

the WIDNR is missing out on a goldmine here. sell a $20 wolf hunting permit and every tom, dick and harry will buy one for deer season. say only half of all gun deer hunters buy one, thats SIX MILLION DOLLARS minimum - you could easily charge more! thats money that you could count on every year ...

your normal everyday pack of hounds could handle one wolf on its own - problem is, they dont fight that way. he can run faster and longer and thats just what he will do. but there isnt a dog breed that can take on a pack. wolves are built to kill things much bigger than themselves.

even if you had ...

garmin did add some technical thingamabob to help minimize this issue, but it can still be a problem with radios that are jacked up way past 25 watts (i know many guys who do this to their radios).

the only problem is that if you buy the older model 220 new (there are lots of them still floating ...

i did not think the astro could get much better, until i got birdseye for my 320. without a doubt.

but like you said, pretty much all satellite imagery is taken when its nice and green out in the late spring/summer. theres no option to choose a set from a different season. the images in my area are ...

bring lots of dogs. you will need to make a sacrifice to the wolf gods, and they only take the good ones.

my first memories were of driving around in the truck listening to the cb radio and all i could see was the tops of trees because i was too small to see out the window. and trying to hold on to leashes attached to hound dogs that were alot bigger than me.

im 36 now so thats a long time ago!

i see lots of issues:

1. the biggest and best are sight running hounds, which do no good in the big woods.
2. they are BIG so they don't live as long. i've read that you might get 7 years or so out of one thats about it.
3. they are EXPENSIVE. several thousand for a pup.
4. not sure a big dog like ...

the astro has two different receivers to pick up signals from two different sources - 1.gps satellites and 2.dc20/30/40 dog collar transmitters. communication radio transmissions (cb, marine, etc) are burning out the receiver for the dog collar transmitters. it does not effect the satellite receiver ...

if you haven't updated the software on your astro in awhile, that may help. one of the recent patch notes mentioned something about improving the way the astro handles interference between collars.

we have learned to deal with this problem by keeping track of the ID numbers of each dog and then ...

whatever the weight actually is, it really bothers me when people don't field dress animals right away. they probably drove around with it in the back of their truck all day too. might as well throw all that meat away.

i've known joey since he was 2ft tall and he's never stood next to a certified ...

i was actually being somewhat gracious with my estimate - if you go with -20% after field dressing, then it would be 589 pounds. a bear this big could easily be -25%, which would end up being 552.

the southern half of wisconsin is going to be crawling with these big boys in the future. tons of food ...

field dressed that bear would be barely over 600. which is big for WI but not huge.

for what you pay for and atv with tracks you can buy an ATV AND a really nice used mountain (long track) sled that will be much harder to get stuck and run circles around an ATV with tracks - speed and gas mileage wise.