I bought a Garmin 64st about 4 years ago and use it basically every time I go out. I now have a smart phone and it has GPS also but I find that the dedicated GPS unit gets better signal because it uses 2 independent satellite constellation networks. That is the good part. The bad part is if you are used to touch screen and easy typing you may get frustrated with this style (they may have gotten better) since it is like a cell phone from 1999. All that said, If I lost mine or it got destroyed, I would buy another one tomorrow. Oh, and they do eat batteries so if you go on a long hunt out of state and will be remote, pack plenty and carry a couple of spares on your person when out.
This is incorrect. Your phone also uses satellites for its GPS, I suggest anybody reading this thread to do some research on phones and the GPS capabilities it has, a simple google search will answer these questions, I’m not trying to argue, just hoping to help someone out, I have hunted all over the US in some of the most remote **** holes known to man and have never not had gps capabilities with a smart phone and ONX. To put it into perspective, I own an ACR PLB for how and where I hunt.
These look pretty cool. Short question. Can you save waypoints and download them to Garmin Basecamp and upload from Basecamp to the watch?
There’s an app called Garmin Explore and any waypoint you mark on your watch automatically shows up on the App. The Garmin Explore app has satelite and topo.
Yeah Garmin explore is awesome its shows all waypoints and you can also touch a point on any maps app and type in the 8-10 difit coordinate into the watch and itll take you right to it. Back track features on the watch give you the option to get to a point via straight line or the way you came. And also to mention, i researched alot between the instinct and fenix and the high end one but for your budget the instinct acrually has better battery and tracking than the fenix but if you want to spend $1k+ the delta tactical is the bees knees and also 26 day battery life but that out of alot of people budget. But full blown tracking i get about 10 solid hrs with everything running on the watch. But just my normal track on the way in and on the way out i can get 3 ish days of battery respectively and after 3 years with this watch, using it for basic features not tracking just day to day i consistently get 10-12 days battery out of it before recharge. It blew my Suunto out the water hence the switch to Garmin.
Ill add to this with a good point you made, so not having the topo feature isnt a big deal here in flat Louisiana but if i were hunting mountains i would definitely want the topo so see that elevation change
