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Brian: I think you made the right call for now. Chuck's DT Systems is a wonderful unit, and I think it was designed around Hickox' system which is about the best out there for a step-by-step program. You may not need or get full use out of all all the buttons until you spend some time working that system. The collar makers have all come a long way since your collar was built but yours is fine for now. Welcome home and thank you for your service.

I dunno. Call me an old phart, but I don't think one needs a collar for a Springer, if one takes the time for proper training. Participated in Springer trials for years, gunned trials for more years, and now have a British lab with 1300 retrieves. No Edison Institute has ever been on her neck.

Dave,
I've used it with very thin gloves in the field when in SoDak with temps moderate (40s). Yes, some of the buttons are small and low profile. I think the real beauty of this collar is for training. It does have some room for improvement, but I'm pretty darn pleased with it. I just bought Hickox's latest video "Great Beginnings, Training the Upland Retriever" and the pointing dog version too. I have only watched the retriever video, but it's the best video for yardwork I've watched. It incorporates clicker training as well as the DT collar training. Clicker training provides a positive balancer to the corrections of a collar. I'm having a great time as well as my dog, with clicker training methods. My dog is very, very upbeat in training sessions.