Your choice: Shock or tracking collar

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It never ceases to amaze me how many people rely on a shock collar to dictate how there hunt or run goes, aside from off game I have just about no use for a shock collar, the collars are only as useful as the operator is smart and many that I have witnessed lay all common sense aside when the transmitter is in hand. I call shock collars "the electronic crutch" used to prop up handlers that apparently dont do enough hands on yard training with young hounds nor enough backup training with the older dogs. If all that rely on these devices would do their part at home the shock collars would not be necessary to make dogs handle etc. I have a two dog tritronics system I bought new several years ago and the batteries in both collars and the transmitter have gone to hell from setting unused I currently have four hounds none of which require a collar to run, come, or be deterred from running off game. Now, knock on wood but is it luck or am I doing something right? I like to take at least some of the credit for my situation- with this being said I leave my gun home alot- never my Wildlife system.