Dog GPS collars, anyone have much experience with them?

[Rotaxpower]

Looking at getting a GPS collar for my puppy here in the new year, I also need to buy a training collar as well. I was looking at Cabelas website and seen the sportdog Tek 1.0 collar that is GPS, and also a training collar. This would be ideal for me, instead of buying two collars this one would do it all, but I am not sure if they are worth the $800 price tag, and if they are as good as a Garmin collar. Has anyone had much to do with sportdog collars? Thanks.

 

[kamlooky]

GPS Central is where I shop now.
I think GPS dog collars are a bit pre-mature or early on the market.
Might be cheaper to subscribe to a bug contract and put the bug on the collar.
Training collar and get the pup to heel on the beep.
I make clicky noises at the same time to get the hound use to me and the collar.
The idea is to eventually not have to use the collar.
Get the pup to heel on command no matter what the distraction is.
This could save it's life.

 

[HuntNL]

What kind of dog do you own? What will you be doing with the dog?

Not sure why you are asking collar questions here, IMO your best bet is to go on a hunting dog site or an upland hunting site to get your questions answered. I wouldn't go to a hunting dog site and ask about the differences between CRF and push feed or ask for long range scope recommendations. Be cautious when using an e-collar, get someone to show you how to introduce it and use it properly. And don't use it on your dog without first testing it on yourself, test on your wrist and work your way through the power settings.

You can check Collar Clinic as well, Lion Country Supply and Gun Dog Supply for collars.

PS I own an older Garmin

I think GPS dog collars are a bit pre-mature or early on the market.

The Garmin has been around for several years and the Sportdog a couple years.

 

[NewfieAB]

I bought the garmin alpha about 6 months ago to use with my Brittany. Ordered it from The BC GPS store, but they had it dropped shipped from a US company. Supposedly the frequency that it operates on isn't deregulated here in Canada yet and that's why you can't officially buy them here but the phase in period for that freq band is supposed to be done by June. Now back to the setup itself, cost me about 1000$ and it's a tracker/training collar in one and I think it's a great purchase. Says it's good for 9miles but my dog hasn't gone more then 100ft in the thick bush of NL and I haven't had a chance to run her in the fields of Alberta yet. But the GPS is very easy to use and setup, similar as the 62 series of GPS. And the training buttons are easy to program as well. The tracking works excellent on it and the system lets you track a number of dogs and hunting partners with the same gear. It might not be for everyone especially how expensive it is but it works for me because I didn't want to have my dog wearing 3 collars while in the field.