Are you fagged out searching your dog inside the dense cover or tall grasslands? Never after! Leave to him the entire freedom for hunting, for the Astro is here from Garmin. This highly sensitive dog tracking GPS enabled system spots your dog exactly even in the places where you cannot see or hear him.
Including a bright color screen on the hand held GPS and a tough orange DC40 collar, the Astro system look s really majestic. As the collar is designed to fit in the e-collar receivers, it wipes out the need to put two separate collars on the dog. In addition, the Lock at the Collar establishes a PIN number of about 4 digits to prevent external users seeing the location of the dog. Garmin really deserves appreciation for this feature as it ensures Astro being used only as a recovery tool when the dog gets lost during competitions.
The set is so simple and impressive. To get started, simply turn on the transmitter to gain GPS satellite signals and attach DCC 40 to your dog. Thats it, you are now ready to let him loose.
Every 5 seconds the status regarding the current position of the dog is transmitted to your hand held device and also the trail of where exactly he is can be seen in the map page of your hand held. Whether you dog runs, sits or tree corners a prey the GPS tracker will never leave anything to track. When you dog goes on point, the Astro immediately sound an alarm to let you know instantly.
Astro is capable enough to track up to about 10 dogs at a time at a distance of up to seven miles away. Mark the exact spot of your prey using the a special way point, Covey Counter of Astro. It lets you record the time of the day and the elevation where you found your prey, also the number of birds you flushed at that particular location. Astro also offers hunting related spots like tree stands, food spots and more.
No doubt, Astro glows when you are out on hunt but at the end of the day, it can also bring you back to truck. This super model from Garmin includes features of other best handheld outdoor devices viz rugged IPX7 waterproof exterior, area calculator, microSD card slot, barometric altimeter, celectial information and electric compass. The details of city street maps which comes optional lets you search more than 6 million POI as well as make your own route along with accurate turn by turn directions.
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