Thread: RST Hunters Club - New Series

Originally Posted by The Hunters Club

Was more the nature of the thick bush the dogs were in, was pretty impenetrable in places, we could follow the dogs tracks on the Garmin gear but after half an hour of bashing, we'd barely made it 100m in. Plus, we still had the harness with the mounting mechanism, the camera had just been shorn clean off at the point of connection, so finding a small black GoPro 360 in that dark, wet jungle would have been impossible.

You can set the camera to communicate its position via GPS, but it chews battery and dead batts have cost us before when filming with the dog cams - picking and choosing moments to film is a bit of a lottery. To get around this, we've begun bolting the camera harness to the tracking collar itself.

I'd be wary though if you intend to put a camera harness on a dog - you need to be prepared to lose and/or damage it. There's the worst case scenario too, you're risking your dog by having a camera mounted to them, especially when hunting tight country with supplejack, or areas with fences, as they can easily become tangled up. The results look great when it all works out as planned, but it's never easy.

Maybe a secondary, flexible connection between the Go-pro & the harness would save losing the cameras. Webbing or similar. The rigid connection could break if the dog "punched thru" a fence or thick bush without losing the camera.