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Phone hunting apps

Started by Dave Lay, July 06, 2021, 12:43:12 PM

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Dave Lay

I hunt public land and try to avoid using brite eyes or other marker to locate stands in the dark. Ive used a Garmin GPS for hunting a long time.  I've been using Gaia phone app for off road travel and hunting for years but kinda went to huntstand to try, both give good land owner info and Sat /Topo images. But Gaia is the only one I've found that will let you navigate to a waypoint. This is important to me getting to a stand in the dark without trail markers. Of the top phone apps like Onx, huntstand, basemap etc, other than Gaia, is there any that will give you coordinates , direction and distance to a saved WP? Huntstand will give you coordinates but that's it , I then have to load them into my gps making the app almost useless other than showing your WP on a map image  I'm a old guy and pretty dumb on this stuff, but hate wandering around in the dark trying to use a dang blue dot to find my stand with out using brite eyes that anyone can see. A handheld gps works well but it would be nice to find a phone app that would work for this
Thanks, Dave
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Pine

You can use Google Maps and with the settings set to walking, you can pin the spot where your stand is and it will be there until you unpin it.
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trad_bowhunter1965

If I understand you correctly I use both GPS and BaseMap and my BaseMap app gives me the coordinates and the ability to plot a course to a waypoint .
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Roy from Pa

X's 2 what Pine said.

With google map I can see my tree stand location, my location, my progress, and direction of travel live on my phone as I walk.


SlowBowKing

OnX lets you track yourself and you can save a track (a dotted line of your path). You could record these when visiting the stand to hang/trim shooting lanes/hunt and then next time have the digital path to follow.
-King

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BAK

So, I tie the string to the stand and then the crank and walk it out and then crank it back?  Wife's gonna miss being able to call her friends while I'm hunting.   :bigsmyl:
"May your blood trails be short and your drags all down hill."

Blaino

I really like OnX and use for way more than just hunting.
"It's not the trophy, but the race. It's not the quarry,
but the chase."

J. Holden

I'll second OnX.  My son has a subscription and I'm able to access and use his account on my phone.  I sort of scoffed at the whole idea of it.  However it saved my a$$ one night after hunting a new area of public.  I was WAAAYYYY off course and headed towards a big bog.  It would have been a long, possibly wet, night.  My son marked his location and I was able to walk right to him.  I now also use it to find other public land to hunt that I may not be aware of.  It's a good app.

-Jeremy :coffee:
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Dave Lay

Thanks guys, my main issue using HuntStand was a lack of direction to a WP or any kind of distance, heading or bearing to a WP  the only way to know your direction of movement towards a marked WP was to walk and see which way your location " dot" moved.  Guess I'm spoiled using a handheld GPS and compass
     All this mainly applies to navigating to a stand or back to the truck in the dark.
But I could be missing something here, I'm old and came from a map and compass
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Traditional bowhunters of Arkansas
I live to bowhunt!!!
60" Widow SAV recurve 54@28
60" Widow KBX recurve 53@27
64" DGA longbow 48@27

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