re: electric fence or gps collar advice please

We had the in ground one at our last house, that worked well but now that we have 20 acres I'm not real keen on running that much wire. Probably will one day.

We tried Halo, my GSP would be about a half mile out of the boundary before the GPS caught up with him, too late. Durability wasn't there for him either, he is rough and runs through the woods and plays all day. He broke 2 of them in 6 months.

We have Tractive now, GPS collar that doesn't shock. It does allow you to set a boundary and you get a notification when they leave the boundary. I spent 2 weeks watching them on the app, every time they left the boundary I would beep the collar until they came back. They stay pretty close now but if they get on a deer or something, they will go a good ways before I get them back.

Training is more important than the type of fence in my opinion.