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A New Standard For Upland Hunting
At the end of (3) nine month seasons I have nothing but praise for the Astro 220 ad the 2 collars I use. I run two German shorthair pointers 3 months, 2-3 times weekly in fir/spruce forests (7K - 9K altitude) containing deep drainages, open meadows and plenty of time spent in ponds, lakes and creeks. They both love to work in heavy cover which loads the collar antenna interface with sticks and herbaceous stuff regularly - no failure yet. The amazing thing is I rarely lose a tracking signal and even then it is usually because the distance of the dog is over 450 yds. A "lie" you say. Well consider the other 6 months I hunt them in the field (wild and pen raised birds) usually covering 1000 acres of mixed grain, sagebrush, CRP, and various Great Basin shrubbery. The male is a ranger and can lock up 2-300 yds away and hold or carefully relocate while I eat lunch and read the paper knowing the Astro will take me to him without fail. I rarely have to use his beeper. I most often get a "treed" reading which I can verify by checking his track. Wild birds in later season tend to not hold for long so both dogs will relocate when I signal them that I'm near. The only thing that the Astro doesn't do is flush the bird. I don't let my pointers flush either so I'm working on getting a short haired flusher to do the work that won't bring home a mat of burrs. IN SUMMARY: I don't hunt birds, that's my dogs' job - I hunt dogs.
The Astro 220 package has really made my job easy.
