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Apart from adding custom-made waypoint symbols to your Alpha unit, you can also create your own. This is useful if you wish to mark a specific location with an easily recognizable symbol. If you have buddies with "distinctive" features you can make flattering caricatures of them. Try it! After downloading some custom waypoints for your device, you can get to...

You’ve probably heard the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”, right? It’s something that’s been said time and time again about those stubborn old dogs that seem unwilling to listen let alone learn. But how much weight should we hold behind that saying when taking on a new recruit, and what difference does age really make when...

I’ve been running hounds my whole life, 36 years. I got my first bird dog 9 years ago. If you, or God forbid my wife, made me choose one or the other I would be extremely torn. It’s amazing how different they are but the relationship is still the same. Hounds hunt FOR you while a well-trained bird dog hunts...

Whether you run bird dogs, retrievers, or fur dogs, Walkers, Plotts, or Redbones, at the end of the day, all hunting dogs matter. (Chris Ingram photo) If you’ve been in the hound game long enough, you’ve probably heard it all. An exhaustive list of bad names, rumors, and flat out lies putting down hounds and hound hunters. If you’re new...

Our daughter with our lead dog, Hooch The excitement never fades the moment that indicator on your Garmin Handheld comes up showing “treed”. You look to see how far you’re walking and prepare to get in there, leashes strapped to your chest, Garmin in hand and one boot in front of the other.  For the most part, pretty straight forward. Simple. ...

Have you ever called in one or more of your hounds, had them look at you –sum you up– and blow you off?Of course you have. We all have. Are these the actions of a disobedient mutt? Perhaps... Or maybe, the dog is being motivated to act that way. One of the first things that I will do in that...

When we first started our family hunting journey we had no clue what we were getting ourselves into.  We had moved to a new area and didn’t know these mountains as well as the ones back home. We began the season mountain hopping and would hunt a different place each weekend with zero luck. It wasn’t until we decided to...

The hounds are working hard, opening, but frustrated after an hour of pursuit. The track looked fresh, the boys sounded like they got it jumped. The Garmin Alpha is a hot mess of circles, but the hounds aren't showing (or finding) the adversary treed. The chase goes on for a while longer until I lose patience and walk in only...

Have you ever seen those bumper stickers that say, Treeing Walkers do it better? Those stickers run the gamut of every breed out there. Blue Tick, English, Running Walker, etc. A book could be written about which breed of hound is better, and in my opinion not one word of it would be true. There are great hounds in every...

I am Ross Ellwanger, I have been running my family’s line of Bluetick hounds since I was born, it’s in my blood. I hunt bears in WI from July through the beginning of October and hunt bobcat from the time it snows until the snow is gone. I also try to make a trip out West every winter to chase...