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Grampas Shop

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Just wondering if anyone else uses their GPS to mark their calling spots.

I started doing this a couple years ago. Usually just leave the GPS in the pickup and mark a waypoint there. After getting home I transfer waypoints to the "National Geographic Kansas Topo" program that I have. I then adjust the coordinates to the actually call location. I also then make notes on the program as to how many called, how many shot, date, time & weather conditions. I can then look at my Topo program and see how long its been since I called a certain spot/area to make plans for future hunts in that area.

I guess I would qualify as being a GPS nut. First one I bought was in 1997 and it was slower than molasses with no mapping on it. I currently have a GarminMap76CSx and a Garmin Oregon 400t. Use them all the time and always have one of them turned on and plugged in in the pickup.
 
Yep I got Garmin Nuvi 660 for car and i use Oregon 400t as well. A must for predator hunting. Thinking aboy upgrading to Nuvi 500. Has both topo and road info
 
I mark all of my calling stands with a GPS unit, map them in Nat'l Geographic Topo for AZ, and keep a predator calling log in Microsoft Excel. I note how many minutes I call each stand, success, and techniques used. At the end of the year I am able to get some interesting stats. I then use the info to try and improve how I do things. By the way, if you save your National Geographic Topo files in the *.gpx file exchange format, you can open that file with Google Earth then view everything stored in your GPS unit in 3-D satellite imagery.
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Two years ago when I first put them on the puter with the TOPO Program, I was really surprised to see that about 90% of my stands (approx. 50 of them) were within a 5 mile radius of my house. You really don't think about it at the time, but when its right there in front of you it really opens the ole eyes.
 
I have not been around the Rhino's, mainly due to already owning a good set of Midland walkie-talkie's with up to 26 mile range on them. I believe the Rhino's are only good up to 14 miles.

Now if I didn't already have the Midlands, I would probably buy a set of the Rhino's. When my wife hunts deer, I am usually not close. She will try to give me directions over the phone so I can take the ATV (480 acres of CRP grass on my own land) to where she is to pickup them up. She do get really confused at times trying to tell me what direction she is from certain landmarks. It wouldnt be so bad but she is never off the same 90 deg. increment from year to year.
 
Grampas Shop said:
Just wondering if anyone else uses their GPS to mark their calling spots.

I started doing this a couple years ago. Usually just leave the GPS in the pickup and mark a waypoint there. After getting home I transfer waypoints to the "National Geographic Kansas Topo" program that I have. I then adjust the coordinates to the actually call location. I also then make notes on the program as to how many called, how many shot, date, time & weather conditions. I can then look at my Topo program and see how long its been since I called a certain spot/area to make plans for future hunts in that area.

I guess I would qualify as being a GPS nut. First one I bought was in 1997 and it was slower than molasses with no mapping on it. I currently have a GarminMap76CSx and a Garmin Oregon 400t. Use them all the time and always have one of them turned on GPS week converter and plugged in in the pickup.
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How long its been since I called a certain spot?
 
I mark them on my Onx, yellow for stands and potential stands, orange for stands with a kill and blue for archery stands. Before the gps and online mapping I marked them on BLM maps, wore out a lot of paper maps.
 
Just mark my properties in OnX. Actual stands are chosen based on a number of factors when I get to a property. I always have it planned out in my head, but often need to switch gears when I get there.

I suppose if I had huge tracts of land and was making multiple sets it would make sense to drop a marker. Just not needed where I’m at here in NY.
 
I started marking successful stands on GPS some years ago. By successful, I mean a dead coyote. Only marked stands where a coyote got killed. Not ones that looked good. Not ones that coyotes were called in and not killed. Just the ones that produced a dead coyote. I give them the name on the GPS of CYT-Kxxx. With the "xxx" starting at 1 and going up with each new K. My partner and I call them "K's". As in, "marked a new K". Have marked very few new K's in recent years. Just have all the good stands already doped out and almost all of the coyotes we kill are on already marked K's. Have three hundred ninety something K's marked. CYT-K39x (I forget the current last digit). Going to get to 400 K's this season.

Some of those, we have been back to over and over and killed 20, 30, even 40 coyotes on the oldest and best ones. Others, only called them once, killed a coyote and have never gone back to. Counting partners kills and not just mine, they represent about 2,000 coyotes killed. All on public land.

I also record tracks of the faint desert two tracks we like to explore. I have about 1,700 tracks recorded. I showed them to a group of so called "overlanders" a couple years ago and they freaked out that I had explored that much, of that big a chunk, of that lonely of country. But the tracks come in real handy when we haven't been to a spot for a few years, to remember where to turn. A lot of those turns the "road" is so faint, you almost have to know it's there to find it. And sometimes, it's hard to find even when you know it's there.

- DAA
 
I couldn’t agree more with Dave. I swear some of the spots on my OnX maps is so marked I can’t see the landscape anymore….😂
 
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