AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
Over the years we get request for places to hunt, it is a brave man that will give out spots on a public forum.
Finding places to hunt can be as interesting as hunting itself. With some work you can find places to hunt even the locals don't know about.
I like to travel and hunt. I like hunting new ground even more, finding critters on your own is rewarding.
There are a lot of tools to use to find hunting places. There are a number of online hunting map sites, I use Onx but there are others. If you don't want to subscribe, google maps, and real-estate sites like Zillow will have satellite mapping which I used before Onx but they don't have public lands overlays. I use Onx on my computer before the hunt to get the lay of the land, I'm not phone savvy enough to figure out how to use it in the truck. I do have an old Kirsch public lands chip for my GPS, while dated it still show property lines.
Next are paper maps.
I have maps that predate the internet, they were my bible for many years, US Geological Survey Quadrangle maps are very detailed and were/are available for almost everywhere.
West of the Mississippi where there is BLM Land the local BLM office can supply public lands maps, getting them from the local office they are half the price of ordering them on line, you can call the office and have them sent to you if you know the ones you want. I keep looseleaf notebooks with BLM maps of each state I hunt.
Then there is DeLormes Atlas & Gazetteer that shows the whole state, some have public lands shown but while detailed they cover a lot of territory on a single page.
Before the hunt I like to get to know the territory on the computer and the DeLormes, if I'm headed to someplace I've never been I order BLM maps for it and the surrounding area. BLM maps can be laid out and you get an overall picture of where your going to hunt, plan a travel route and see things you won't see just driving, waterholes, ponds and drainages that are out of sight. You can look out across a sage flat and not realize there is a gully or just a change of elevation that has more vegetation do to more moisture in the bottom. When I arrive I have a really good idea of what to look for and where to go.
As I travel even in the off season I keep an eye out for potential hunting spots.
My old bird hunting buddy and I killed a lor of pheasants on little patches of BLM, State and BLR lands nestled in large tracts of private land.
In the east states have public lands maps also. I just gave my BinL a public lands map of NW WI, showing state, federal and county public lands.
Good luck Hunting.
My Delormes and BLM notebook for AZ
Over the years we get request for places to hunt, it is a brave man that will give out spots on a public forum.
Finding places to hunt can be as interesting as hunting itself. With some work you can find places to hunt even the locals don't know about.
I like to travel and hunt. I like hunting new ground even more, finding critters on your own is rewarding.
There are a lot of tools to use to find hunting places. There are a number of online hunting map sites, I use Onx but there are others. If you don't want to subscribe, google maps, and real-estate sites like Zillow will have satellite mapping which I used before Onx but they don't have public lands overlays. I use Onx on my computer before the hunt to get the lay of the land, I'm not phone savvy enough to figure out how to use it in the truck. I do have an old Kirsch public lands chip for my GPS, while dated it still show property lines.
Next are paper maps.
I have maps that predate the internet, they were my bible for many years, US Geological Survey Quadrangle maps are very detailed and were/are available for almost everywhere.
West of the Mississippi where there is BLM Land the local BLM office can supply public lands maps, getting them from the local office they are half the price of ordering them on line, you can call the office and have them sent to you if you know the ones you want. I keep looseleaf notebooks with BLM maps of each state I hunt.
Then there is DeLormes Atlas & Gazetteer that shows the whole state, some have public lands shown but while detailed they cover a lot of territory on a single page.
Before the hunt I like to get to know the territory on the computer and the DeLormes, if I'm headed to someplace I've never been I order BLM maps for it and the surrounding area. BLM maps can be laid out and you get an overall picture of where your going to hunt, plan a travel route and see things you won't see just driving, waterholes, ponds and drainages that are out of sight. You can look out across a sage flat and not realize there is a gully or just a change of elevation that has more vegetation do to more moisture in the bottom. When I arrive I have a really good idea of what to look for and where to go.
As I travel even in the off season I keep an eye out for potential hunting spots.
My old bird hunting buddy and I killed a lor of pheasants on little patches of BLM, State and BLR lands nestled in large tracts of private land.
In the east states have public lands maps also. I just gave my BinL a public lands map of NW WI, showing state, federal and county public lands.
Good luck Hunting.
My DeLormes and BLM notebook for AZ
Finding places to hunt can be as interesting as hunting itself. With some work you can find places to hunt even the locals don't know about.
I like to travel and hunt. I like hunting new ground even more, finding critters on your own is rewarding.
There are a lot of tools to use to find hunting places. There are a number of online hunting map sites, I use Onx but there are others. If you don't want to subscribe, google maps, and real-estate sites like Zillow will have satellite mapping which I used before Onx but they don't have public lands overlays. I use Onx on my computer before the hunt to get the lay of the land, I'm not phone savvy enough to figure out how to use it in the truck. I do have an old Kirsch public lands chip for my GPS, while dated it still show property lines.
Next are paper maps.
I have maps that predate the internet, they were my bible for many years, US Geological Survey Quadrangle maps are very detailed and were/are available for almost everywhere.
West of the Mississippi where there is BLM Land the local BLM office can supply public lands maps, getting them from the local office they are half the price of ordering them on line, you can call the office and have them sent to you if you know the ones you want. I keep looseleaf notebooks with BLM maps of each state I hunt.
Then there is DeLormes Atlas & Gazetteer that shows the whole state, some have public lands shown but while detailed they cover a lot of territory on a single page.
Before the hunt I like to get to know the territory on the computer and the DeLormes, if I'm headed to someplace I've never been I order BLM maps for it and the surrounding area. BLM maps can be laid out and you get an overall picture of where your going to hunt, plan a travel route and see things you won't see just driving, waterholes, ponds and drainages that are out of sight. You can look out across a sage flat and not realize there is a gully or just a change of elevation that has more vegetation do to more moisture in the bottom. When I arrive I have a really good idea of what to look for and where to go.
As I travel even in the off season I keep an eye out for potential hunting spots.
My old bird hunting buddy and I killed a lor of pheasants on little patches of BLM, State and BLR lands nestled in large tracts of private land.
In the east states have public lands maps also. I just gave my BinL a public lands map of NW WI, showing state, federal and county public lands.
Good luck Hunting.
My Delormes and BLM notebook for AZ
Over the years we get request for places to hunt, it is a brave man that will give out spots on a public forum.
Finding places to hunt can be as interesting as hunting itself. With some work you can find places to hunt even the locals don't know about.
I like to travel and hunt. I like hunting new ground even more, finding critters on your own is rewarding.
There are a lot of tools to use to find hunting places. There are a number of online hunting map sites, I use Onx but there are others. If you don't want to subscribe, google maps, and real-estate sites like Zillow will have satellite mapping which I used before Onx but they don't have public lands overlays. I use Onx on my computer before the hunt to get the lay of the land, I'm not phone savvy enough to figure out how to use it in the truck. I do have an old Kirsch public lands chip for my GPS, while dated it still show property lines.
Next are paper maps.
I have maps that predate the internet, they were my bible for many years, US Geological Survey Quadrangle maps are very detailed and were/are available for almost everywhere.
West of the Mississippi where there is BLM Land the local BLM office can supply public lands maps, getting them from the local office they are half the price of ordering them on line, you can call the office and have them sent to you if you know the ones you want. I keep looseleaf notebooks with BLM maps of each state I hunt.
Then there is DeLormes Atlas & Gazetteer that shows the whole state, some have public lands shown but while detailed they cover a lot of territory on a single page.
Before the hunt I like to get to know the territory on the computer and the DeLormes, if I'm headed to someplace I've never been I order BLM maps for it and the surrounding area. BLM maps can be laid out and you get an overall picture of where your going to hunt, plan a travel route and see things you won't see just driving, waterholes, ponds and drainages that are out of sight. You can look out across a sage flat and not realize there is a gully or just a change of elevation that has more vegetation do to more moisture in the bottom. When I arrive I have a really good idea of what to look for and where to go.
As I travel even in the off season I keep an eye out for potential hunting spots.
My old bird hunting buddy and I killed a lor of pheasants on little patches of BLM, State and BLR lands nestled in large tracts of private land.
In the east states have public lands maps also. I just gave my BinL a public lands map of NW WI, showing state, federal and county public lands.
Good luck Hunting.
My DeLormes and BLM notebook for AZ
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