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Ted Gartner said the use of GPS collars on his dogs, like Vegas, takes the worry out of losing a dog late in the day.

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Ted Gartner swings on a bobwhite quail.

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Working a sandhill's ridge for quail.

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Working a sandhill's ridge for quail.

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Ted Gartner said the use of GPS collars on his dogs, like Vegas, takes the worry out of losing a dog late in the day.

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Ted Gartner said GPS dog collars are especially valuable when hunting wide-open country, like the southwest Kansas sandhills.

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LuLu, a wide-ranging English pointer's GPS collar allows her to hunt freely without getting lost from her owner.

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Wide-open country that holds lesser prairie chickens and bobwhite quail.

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Ted Gartner with a quail and LuLu, his pointer.

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Vegas, a German shorthair, gets some water during Tuesday afternoon's heat.

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LuLu pointing a quail near a Stafford County creek bottom.

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Working a sandhill's ridge for quail.

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Ted Gartner moves in a bird pointed by Vegas.

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Tom Turner tries for a quail.

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LuLu, a bird dog, with a solid point on the quail that's visible in the leaves.

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Ted Gartner said GPS dog collars are especially valuable when hunting wide-open country, like the southwest Kansas sandhills.

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A male bobwhite quail hiding amid leaves in Stafford County,

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The tracking device of a Garmin GPS collar shows the dog's direction and distance.

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LuLu and Vegas stop to "honor" the point of another dog.

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Vegas on a solid point. Her GPS collar transmits her location, and lets Ted Gartner know she's on point.

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Ted Gartner checks the GPS collar on Vegas, one of his hunting dogs.

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Ted Gartner checks the GPS collar on Vegas, one of his hunting dogs.

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Tom Turner tries for an Edward's County bobwhite.

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The blue GPS collar allows Ted Gartner to know where LuLu is located, and when she's on pointÉlike on this quail.

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LuLu pointing a quail near a Stafford County creek bottom.

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Ted Gartner checks the GPS collar on LuLu, his wide-ranging pointer. Thanks to the collar, Gartner knows LuLu's location at all times.

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LuLu pointing a quail near a Stafford County creek bottom.

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Vegas, Ted Gartner's German shorthair, on a solid point in Reno County.

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Ted Gartner used a combination of an aerial photo and the bread crumb function of his GPS dog collar to show where his dogs hunted and found birds in Reno County

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