Is GPS technology changing hound hunting

[walkin w/ some blue]

I have owned a garmin since they first came out. Before that I had nothing to track my dogs but myself. We lost dogs here and there but like stated in earlier posts we learned to listen to the diff barks of dogs and what they mean. But that also made for some long miserable hikes in waist deep snow just to do a big circle right back to where you were. Where i live and hunt there isn't much road acess so no matter what you are hikin in to the tree. Since I got my garmin I have only lost dogs once and thats because I left the garmin in the truck at the house. When I first got I admit all i did was watch the screen in delight. I knew where they were and what was goin on. But the longer i had it the more i found myself only checkin when i didn't know where they were ar went out of hearing. So in a way yes it makes them lazy by driving closer to the tree or dogs and not hiking the track out with the dogs. But at the same time it prevents of lot of backtracking and second guesses and wrong guesses. I wont leave home with the dogs with out it. I still hike behind the dogs when i can but the garmin can cut hiking time in half and also a great training to to know wick dogs are doin what. Anyways theres my rant and 2cents.

[Plotts]

In the age of the Wolf; the Garmin will make the difference between getting your dogs home safe or loosing your whole pack.............

[cheat river kennels]

anyone who thinks it makes hunters lazy can come with me. i'll change they're mind. we don't have many roads where ihunt. only ting it does is gets us to our dogs faster by getting a pinpoint instead of the bounces that from the beep bep collars.istil end up waling anywhere from 4 to 10 miles aday with gps collars

[rockymtnhunter]

Hey B/T in response to your question on Rebel2. We were running at the end of the season so the conditions were very patchy with lots of bare ground . We dumped on a cat that went over top one mountain onto a south facing slope with no snow heading towards the valley that he later died in. He dry grounded the cat up the next valley making his way into snow once he hit the shaded side of the valley. It was an extremely tight and rugged valley that rarely sees sunlight so the transition from bare ground to deep snow was immediate. And as you know how late season running is the snow is usually rock hard, making it difficult for finding tracks. He travelled up the valley along the river into a tight spot where he later expired but with the river running it was impossible to hear and dogs in there. We looked for 11 days morning to night hiking to the tops of the mountains trying to hear them or cut their tracks. Finally on the eleventh day they took a helicopter to the top of the mounatin and got dropped off and walked down. They crossed some tracks and decided to follow. The track eventually led them to the dogs where Peco was dead and the pup in extremely rough shape. We still are unsure exactly how he died whether he powered out from the deep snow and long run or if the cat got him, but wolves were not a factor in this instance. Because of the terrain telemetry is a nightmare.