How stressed do you get...

[Unreal_tk]

Ok let's say you start a track and its going great slowly up the ridge, dogs go over it and you either walk or cut ahead of them on roads to keep gps reception. And you get where they last were or you figure they are headed and nothing to listen to or see them or not on the gps. I get stressed BIG time if my dogs are headed in a bad spot or somewhere I don't know. Now then in snow you can follow tracks but you baregrounders can't. Now it usually works out but it sure puts a thrill to the hunt for me, usually a more memorable hunt.

If you have any stories along with your response, id love to hear em. Im sure this occurred often before gps, it sure did to my buddy and I before I got my own dogs.

[LarryBeggs]

I get very stressed. I have spent many weeks of my life anf several thousand dollars looking for dogs. I have dug a dog out of a hole 4 days after I lost it before. I have found my dog in a hippys front yard with a bandana ties around its neck and all the collars gone a month after the dog was lost. I know a guy that had multiple dogs shot and attempted to burn his collars. I have been fortunate since tracking collars I have always been able to recover my dogs but sometimes not without exteme effort. Before tracking collars we had a couple that we never found. I thought my 15 year old son was going to try and woop a van load of brush pickers one time because our strong signal vanished when we drove buy there van.We thought they had turned off the collar some how. Turned out dogs were in back of onother pickup and that person had driven behind a ridge when they were trying to run us down. Lots of things can happen to dogs when they are not in your controll. I wish the people that dont hunt could all understand this. Some think that it is just an unfare advantage to hunting when in fact it is just to protect our dogs.

[TRW]

Not to sure you and I turned on a track up wolf creek and ended up treed behind that hippies house walked through a grow pach and had two Doberman pinchers turned out the door that was a little western that night when it's midnight and they answer the door with shades on.

[LarryBeggs]

Different bunch or hippies. I remember that night but I missed out on all the excitment because I was the one that walked back to get the truck and drive it around.

[Unreal_tk]

Sounds like great stories guys, luckily we don't have a ton of hippies here. Im pretty new to the game but I did have someone pick up one of my dogs this winter before I got to her. They were just roading her to service to call,(I kinda knew the guy as well). I have heard thievery stories by other hunters here though. My main worry is highways (my dogs like to hit roads and run them, wish I knew how to break it), theives, and deep wilderness(freezing weather).