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Purchased this product before heading to South Dakota for pheasant hunting. The only problem I had with the unit was that there is a 5 second delay between information updates, and that interval can be too long when the hunting is going at a fevered pitch. Helped me keep track of my dog's location and her activities even when I couldn't see her.With all of the crops still standing in the field, a Brittany disappears quite quickly in 10 foot corn and sunflower fields. The unit worked well, always giving me a read on her. The product seems to be well made and well thought out. It does the job it says it does.
hunting with my pups, they have seldom gone far before striking a track. While in the city with nothing overhead to block the signal, I never lost the dog's location, and the map showed fairly accurately where we had walked but the distance stated we had gone 12 miles. This unit is ok at best, but I had two problems with it.I don't exactly hunt the thickest spots or under the lowest tree branches, but I often still lose reception. I hadn't gone into the really thick brush yet, but the unit would still lose reception constantly.The second problem is with the distance tracking. I still can find my dogs by going in the direction they show up on the unit, I just never have to walk as far as the unit indicates. Even when they were still within eyesight, they would frequently go in and out of range with the unit always saying poor satelite signal, then no signal. While watching it as we walked the unit would update me every five seconds or so on the dog's location.
hunt. When [.]. This is one feature I had really wanted to use to know how much excerize my dogs had gotten each night when we [.]. The trees weren't that thick. I took my dogs on a leash walk around a known distance of 2.5 miles. However every night, just like when we walked in the city, it would show a ridiculous amount of miles covered in a short time frame.On the positive side the mapping seems to be accurate enough to show where my dogs are, it's just that the distances are very much exaggerated. This unit works ok, but the features I thought were going to work that didn't are enough for me now to usually leave the Astro at home when we go out.
Before purchasing, I was concerned about the two-star reviews: broken transmitters and antennas, etc.My dog is a lunatic, 30mph Wirehair Pointer who tears through the brush, fences, low hanging trees of the mountains of Central California at high speed. He is comfortable with the harness, and we have had zero problems.The harness design is kind of clunky.but it works fine and I look forward to upgrades.Meanwhile the GPS part of the system is very thorough and very versatile for the humans. All kinds of bells and whistles, very smart.We are very, very happy with this device.
I am a bird hunter and this a very effective tool to find fast a dog pointing birds. It is also very usefull in finding your location and the location of the dog in difficult conditions (fog, thick forest, etc)
The rebate advertised for this product is NOT for this product, but rather for the update to the dog collar transmitter. Beware. The rebate requires you to own both the DC20 dog collar AND the DC30 dog collar. You can purchase both if you wish, but if you buy only the handheld unit and the DC20, which is what this product listing is, you will NOT get the rebate. Your price after rebate is NOT $349.99. It is still $399.99
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