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I use OnX primarily despite being generally displeased by their quality or age of their satelite images (save that for another thread). When I’m scouting I’ll typically have to pull out my phone, pull up the app, mark my the location, edit the location, change the waypoint to the appropriate symbol and preferred color. Often times I’ll even add a photo of the sign, rub, scrape, scat, acorns etc. that I see. The whole thing is a pretty lengthy process each time but I like being able to look back at the waypoints and be able to recall what I was seeing. When scouting new areas I have even started making waypoints that have the photo symbol and I’ll just attach a zoomed out or pano photo of that area so I know what it looks like before deciding to come back.
I’m curious how many of y’all are fooling with tying a photo to your waypoints? How do you use photos to help you? Are you like me and the photos end up just being nice to look at and reference in the following years?
As much time as I spend marking locations while scouting, it is not very often that I have used those waypoints very successfully to plan a hunt. It’s always in my mind to but other factors come into play once I’m back in the area, and I usually end up hunting something else. I also I think I get to scouting and dropping pins all over the place and then I have analysis paralysis trying to decide where I want to hunt. I’ve been timid with my hunting in the past and I’m trying to be a little more aggressive when I find fresh sign. That is, find it and hunt it that same day if not same week. I’ve returned plenty of time to spots that I’ve scouted earlier on just to find that they don’t really have enough sign to support hunting it.
I’m returning to an area that I haven’t hunted hard in a couple years and I’m trying to have a few spots pick out to hunt before opener next week. I’m going to go scouting again today and look back through my waypoints and notes to see what might be worth hitting. I’m also trying to pick out the exact tree I’m going to hunt out of for each location. This is also a simple task that I’ve always had trouble deciding on.
Last year I got a Garmin instinct watch and I enjoyed using the hunt activity to drop waypoints that could be viewed instantly on the explore app or be transferred later to OnX. It eliminated me having to grab for my phone every hundred steps, and it’s a lot quicker, but then there are no photos. I’m debating how I want to proceed scouting in the future. Are photos even necessary?
I’m curious how many of y’all are fooling with tying a photo to your waypoints? How do you use photos to help you? Are you like me and the photos end up just being nice to look at and reference in the following years?
As much time as I spend marking locations while scouting, it is not very often that I have used those waypoints very successfully to plan a hunt. It’s always in my mind to but other factors come into play once I’m back in the area, and I usually end up hunting something else. I also I think I get to scouting and dropping pins all over the place and then I have analysis paralysis trying to decide where I want to hunt. I’ve been timid with my hunting in the past and I’m trying to be a little more aggressive when I find fresh sign. That is, find it and hunt it that same day if not same week. I’ve returned plenty of time to spots that I’ve scouted earlier on just to find that they don’t really have enough sign to support hunting it.
I’m returning to an area that I haven’t hunted hard in a couple years and I’m trying to have a few spots pick out to hunt before opener next week. I’m going to go scouting again today and look back through my waypoints and notes to see what might be worth hitting. I’m also trying to pick out the exact tree I’m going to hunt out of for each location. This is also a simple task that I’ve always had trouble deciding on.
Last year I got a Garmin instinct watch and I enjoyed using the hunt activity to drop waypoints that could be viewed instantly on the explore app or be transferred later to OnX. It eliminated me having to grab for my phone every hundred steps, and it’s a lot quicker, but then there are no photos. I’m debating how I want to proceed scouting in the future. Are photos even necessary?