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sureshotscott

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I could only capture a 4 or 5 reflective tacks in the one pic. The orange tape was mine, pulled down, led back to a doe I shot. There were over a dozen tacks visible from that one spot.

PURE MICHIGAN! :eek:
 
Walking out of the woods last night on a chunk of public, I saw a reflective tack that made me stop for at least 15 seconds thinking it was coyote eyes
 
To be honest its not typically the tacks that bother me as much as the abandoned trails of orange flagging tape leading to nowhere. I'll admit I have a small supply I carry with me for tracking purposes but when I'm done I make a second trip to pull that tape back out of the trees. Leaving it behind is just littering in my opinion. I'm a firm believer in leave nothing behind.
 
boyne bowhunter said:
To be honest its not typically the tacks that bother me as much as the abandoned trails of orange flagging tape leading to nowhere. I'll admit I have a small supply I carry with me for tracking purposes but when I'm done I make a second trip to pull that tape back out of the trees. Leaving it behind is just littering in my opinion. I'm a firm believer in leave nothing behind.
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I use toilet paper for tracking, can see it far away and pretty much dissolves in the rain. And if nature calls you aren't using your sock :)
 
Much of the same here in PA. Every time I go scouting I come home with pockets full of litter. JE was advocating these things on his DDH youtube series. I cannot stand seeing them light up the woods.
 
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I carry toilet paper for marking blood trails and other necessities. Down here in the delta we have a plethora of palmettos to use for marking trails. For those that are unfamiliar with the practice, an upside down palmetto, in a bush, hung on a vine, etc, stands out like a stop sign in the woods and is biodegradable.
 
I habitually remove “litter” from the woods... if that means guys can’t find their stand, that’s a shame. ;-)
Woodsmanship and the ability to navigate are dying arts. Thank goodness I had to learn map and compass navigation as a teenager.


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IkemanTX said:
I habitually remove “litter” from the woods... if that means guys can’t find their stand, that’s a shame. ;-)
Woodsmanship and the ability to navigate are dying arts. Thank goodness I had to learn map and compass navigation as a teenager.


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Made me laugh. I hardly ever come out of the woods without a pocket full of flagging tape . . .
 
I bring home pockets full of tape each Feb/March when I do my post season scouting on public land. And scent wicks, they're everywhere.
 
Never saw it as bad as a piece of public in Alabama. It was like looking at a field of fireflys. How anyone could follow 1 trail in that mess is beyond me. Went to Ohio one time with my little brother. Somebody saw him walk by leaving tacks on his first sit. While he was on stand out of site they rerouted his tacks into a circle out of his site. Ya funny except this was a young kid who luckily didnt panic and walk off into nowhere.
I also see tons of ribbon in the spring, looks like an eye sore.
 
kenn1320 said:
Never saw it as bad as a piece of public in Alabama. It was like looking at a field of fireflys. How anyone could follow 1 trail in that mess is beyond me. Went to Ohio one time with my little brother. Somebody saw him walk by leaving tacks on his first sit. While he was on stand out of site they rerouted his tacks into a circle out of his site. Ya funny except this was a young kid who luckily didnt panic and walk off into nowhere.
I also see tons of ribbon in the spring, looks like an eye sore.
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I’m not going to lie. I hunted a piece of urban for a while and a guy tacked his way to the tree I’d been hunting so I took off a Friday and helped him find a new tree. Completely rerouted him to another spot that he could hunt just as easily as I could hunt the spot I had been. That Saturday I’m in the tree well before light and see his headlamp coming then he hit the new section of trail and was gone. He shot a doe that morning the 7 point I shot was pushing. Worked out great.

With all the new apps and gps guidance there’s no longer a need for tacks or ribbon IMO. Just leads the next guy to the same spot.
 
Before GPS I would use wooden clothes pins with reflective tape on them for afternoon hunts on new ground then pull them down on my way out. Worked great.
 
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