The American Beagler Forum

Which would you pick if you could only have 1?

Shocking collar. That way you can stop off game on young dogs. A lot of older
dogs don't need either

shocking collar hands down..... though im getting ready to pick up a tracking system for this season.... but the shocking collar is a must... the tracking system is a luxury..

A shock collar can stop the need for a tracking collar.

shock collar

the shock collar is not going to do you any good if the dog falls thru ice,gets killed,stole or runs a hare miles away away ,the tracker wont make them handle,stop running trash,barking in the kennel etc

guess it depends ,i have both but hardly ever use either unless im hunting in the U.P.

shock collar

Shocking collar ... but both are well worth the cost imo .


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shock collar

if i can only pick one have to be shock collar .. but i prefer both . my garmin gps is awesome!especially on young dogs!

well i am not going to disagree about the benefits of a shock collar but if i didnt have both and only could get one it would be a tracking system. my thinking is you can teach a dog to handle without a shocker and you can break a dog off of trash without a shocker. how did they do it before shockers? what if that dog breaks on trash and takes off cross country on that buck in rut out of shocker range. how do you find it and give it the scolding it needs, a tracker could help you find it faster and maybe even cut it off while still running the deer. a tracker is a better insurance to get a good dog back that is lost than a shocker. also think about what you are running and where. where we run we have some big running cottontails that actually stretch out of hearing and normal shocker range. in thick cedar swamps running hare that mile range on the shocker is going to be dropped a lot.

now if you are tight for loot, just as most of us are, and want the best of both worlds you can always settle for a less expensive sport model of tri-tronics and also call up johnson telemetry and order just a tracking collar for 100 bucks. you should be able to find somebody in the area that has a receiver that would track a dog for a case of beer or gas money if a dog is lost.

later, dave

both but for you swamp a tracking collar,you cant shockem if there in canada

Depends on the region of the country! If I'm on my 45 acres, a shock collar will be used, if I am up north on hare, tracking collar will be used and even a shock collar as well. If I'm on Swampers, again both will be used. It depends on where we are hunting/running hounds!

Shock collar hands down! I have both but if I had a dog that ran trash all the time and wouldn't handle I wouldn't waste my time tracking him down

T Hynes, i wouldnt waste my time feeding it!

later, dave