I see most all collars advertise a maximum range of 7-12 miles on a perfect line of site. Does anyone actually get this kind of range? I have uses F&L and Wildlife receivers, wildlife, F&L, Johnson and other collars. My hunting buddy has always uses wildlife equipment. I have never seen more that about 4 miles under actual hunting conditions when in the mountains, or in the sagebrush. I have placed the collars on fence posts and driven straight away and at about 4 miles the last collars will fade away. The roof top ant. seldom picks up anything more than a mile away.
What has been your real range and what brand of equipment are you using? Thanks in advance.

I generally get about 1.5 - 2 miles with my quicktrack qtr-10 using qtr collars and yagi antenna, though the quickshot antenna seems to have a slightly shorter range. But I hunt okefenokee swamp in GA, and it's pretty thick. My buddy has a booster on his qtr-6000, and it'll go an extra mile or 2.

Thats about the range I have experienced. Is anyone getting those long distances that the manufactures are advertising?

if i had to guess the manufacturers are testing them on water, just like a radio way better range.

i run garmins and tracker maxima with intello collars and very rarely does any of them put out a fraction of the range ive heard about. advertising sells. im sure happy to have them most of the time though. LOL.

Across lakes and ontop of hills.

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I got Garmin GPS collar, I have 1 of old style one of new case. they do about 0.5 to 3 miles in this area, flat sparse trees. the signal seems come and go, just wait a little bit you get update on locations. WMI collar goes farther, but heard any other system such as WMI are illegal transmitter with Federal Communications Commissions, if get caught faces $50,000 for each collar, so I don't use them anymore. I see forest ranger everywhere around here.

I used to use my old Wild life materials tracking system. One time I was on top of a mountain and I tracked my dog 6 miles away. That is the most i have ever got. Normally not that much at all. Now i use my Garmin Asto with Dc 30 collar. With the little rubber antenna that comes with it I average about .6 - .8 miles and then it goes out. I got the long Range antenna and it averages 1.5 - 2 miles.

What do you guys think about Marshall tracking collars. I use Quick track and Wildlife and use to swear by the quicktrack but now all the batteries they are using now go dead to quick I am charging 15 collars twice a year. and the wildlife collars batteries cost to much. marshall uses AA batteries. but I have never been around them to know what kind of range they get and how durable they are.
I also run the garmin but is t is not trustworthy enough to use as a stand alone system. so i run both. (garminn range 800 yards with smalll antenna and 1-2 miles with the roof mount antenna here in florida)

A guy i used to hunt with used a Marshall. Now he uses the Garmin. The Marshall has a LOT of range. But it's still the old beep beep system. Point and guess. I'll take my garmin.

Have to agree with Sheep on this one.I had a QT 6000 with marshall collars,Great range but its a guess as to where your dog is EXACTLY.With the garmin here in the mts Im gettin around a mile most times ,have got 3.97.The thing with the Garmin even if it looses signal.it still tells you the last place it had the dog.Move to higher ground in that direction and it will pick back up.

i use a wildlife 64 and f n l collars and johnson collors. but the other night a guy picked my coondog up crossing a rd but i could get there and i tracked him in the car 4 miles away and then it stopped but wen he took him out of the car it was like 7 miles the way the crow flys.. and it was the f an l collor the one they jsut came out with like a yr ago.. and if it wasnt for the led light built into the collor he would have been ran over.. the guy said he thought it was a cop coming out of the woods at him so it depends on how gud ur batteries are and ur antenna on the collors and how gud the collor is tuned to the channel thats wrote on it..

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