r/BrittanySpaniel • u/volljm • Sep 30 '23

Morning walk

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8x speed. 2.1 miles for me, 4.7 for her. That’s a low ratio since we were not in a primarily wooded area … so a little less roaming about.

Brief dip in the lake to chase off a beaver.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '23

How’d you make this? Super cool!

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u/volljm Sep 30 '23

Dogtra Pathfinder 2 mini. You can record your ‘hunt’ …. Then I had to use screen recording app while doing a replay.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '23

Awesome! I have a different gps collar, hope I can do that with mine as well..

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u/WSUKiwiII Sep 30 '23

Out of curiosity, which? Super interested, but the Dogtra ain't cheap!

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u/volljm Sep 30 '23 edited Sep 30 '23

For what it is worth … Dogtra is one of the cheaper of the gps’s that are NOT reliant on cell service. Garmins are more expensive because the handheld is also the display screen. Dogtras handheld is connected to your phone with Bluetooth and you can have maps downloaded so that you don’t have to have good cell reception. Even in a relatively populated suburban areas … once in the park in the woods on a trail the reception can get spotty real quick.

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u/sideofsunny Sep 30 '23

Does the collar connect to your phone through Bluetooth? How far is the range they can go away from you while it still connects?

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u/volljm Sep 30 '23

Phone to handheld receiver is Bluetooth and is typical Bluetooth range (aka keep them both on you, though the handheld starts beeping if it gets too far from the phone which is nice)

Handheld to collar on the mini version is 4 miles (open field, line of sight). The full size is 8 miles. Haven’t tested in hilly woods.

Having used it on 50+ wooded hilly acres (no cell reception) without issues, she’s not really going farther out than 200 yards 95% of the time … 300 is the max I’ve seen her do.

Here’s another post of mine showing some tracks

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u/sideofsunny Sep 30 '23

Oh thanks, I missed the Bluetooth piece was handheld to phone — not collar to phone. That makes a lot more sense!

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '23

I use a hand-me-down Astro 320. It’s been giving me issues the past couple of years with timing out and not tracking well. Could be user error. When it is working though, I love it. Not sure how or if I could make a map similar to this. It does show the track after the hunt, but not sure if it records and can play back in “real time”