On last Sunday, during a driven hunt to Wild Boars, our best dog got lost and it has been found only today. For 24 hours it has been a little drama. Penny is a beagle who love to hunt by itself, not in a pack, but this is a characteristic of the beagles that we use. Uncommon maybe, but they work very well.
I am in charge to find Gps collars, obviously at the best price, does anyone have info about them?
Here in Italy they are very expensive, 3500 for 6 collars and 1 main unit.
Can anyone help me?

Try these pages www.ultrapoint.fi.
Did you mean that it is a package were you have to pay 6 collars for 3500 € or do you just need 6 collars.

Another option: http://www.pointersolutions.com/eng/hunting_dog_gps.htm

These don't use a collar, but a small vest instead:

I have the Pointer model and it seems to be working fine even on small dogs like my dachshund (what do you call the dog in english?)

The price is quite high, I agree and you should consider comparing different phone operators too, because their pricing for text messages -which the collar uses to send you information - can make quite a difference in expenses in the long run.

Thank you all,
jbr we need a receiver and 6 collars for 6 dogs, the first offer I had for a kit like that costs 3500€ +/-.
1350€ for the receiver, about 380€ each collar, less 10% discount (342€).

How many different brands there are in Italy?

Info us which kind of offers you get on these ultrapoin and pointer? There is also this thirth model Tracker. I used to have their locator (old version not gps).

I found 2 gps system and some in radio system uhf based.
I think that we probably choose one of the uhf radio system because gps is actually too expensive, even if I saw a less than 1000 € gps system on one site. But I did not find the price for the 5 extra collars that we need.
I'll put more info in the next days

JTH
It is the same name dachshund or teckel if you have a working one.Which I have.

My teckel is 1½ years old and we are now starting to hunt together. In a couple of weeks we will be going for whitetails here. That is a great way to hunt them, dachshund driving whitetails in a beautiful snowy scenery...

I now have this vision of a teckel trying to pass his driving test so it can drive a whitetail!!

Great little dogs though...full of character..

I don't really know what the correct term is, it was a straight translation from finnish. Actually, what is the right word for that hunting method? You know, one dog running after an animal and barking and the hunter waiting for the animal to come close to shoot it?

I think "driving" is the correct term, but in the hunting context, it covers a number of different things..

I tend to to think of driving as in driven boar in Europe...there is also "moving" game this is done at a lot slower pace with smaller dogs the idea being that the animals leave cover, but not at break neck speed so giving a less hurried shot..

If the dogs are meant to bring the animal to bay to be shot, I think that probably would be classed as hunting with hounds...Of course every country probably has a slightly different variation on all these based on the hunting traditions of that partiular area...I think that why you have so many different European hounds..

All very interesting, but sadly something thats largely illegal here in the UK :-(

Regards,

Pete

Yes, I have actually understood the way of hunting I mean to be most likely hunting with hound(s). The biggest difference in Finland, and probably other scandinavian countries also, when compared to southern countries is that we often use only one hound for "moving" the animal or animals, whereas in southern countries this seems to be done by pack of hounds.

The dachshund is especially great in moving the animals, because it doesn't seem to cause panic to any game animals, due to it's small size and slower pace. But it can still move even moose quite well, if the terrain is favourable.

JTH,
in my hunting area we often use 1 dog at a time, but hunting in wide extensions, if the dog move the boar/s where there are not hunters or the boar/s "pierce" the hunters line, normally another dog or more than one are launched.
The problems begin here, because the owner of the dogs become nervous and stress all the hunters. If the "loosen" dog is the best of the pack and it remain out more than a day .... first begin the drama, then follows the tragedy. The last time we had, as usual the happy end, because, luckily we do not have dogs that work close to the boars.

Steve:

Yes, I understand the worry of the dog owner and the GPS really would save his nerves. Even if something happened to the dog, you would still find it and not need to worry about it for days. It is an expensive device, but in many cases really worth it.

JTH,
I think that it will save my nervesbecasue he won't ask continuously "Where is Penny? anyone has listened to her?" ruining and disturbing all the hunt