Trail markers

[HokeyMike]

Easy cheap and light up under head lamp. Small close pins and reflective tape.

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[LeanMachine]

Works if you have the supplies on hand. Otherwise i would suggest this route for a time as well as cost perspective. But i too am a DIYer at heart.

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[dalton916]

Where the clothes pins outshine (pun intended) the tacks is they can be seen coming and going. Clip the clothes pin on a limb and it’s visible from all but a vey degrees immediately left and right. A tack, on the other hand can only be seen from about 170°.

And if you’ll wrap the reflective tape all the way around each side then it’s visible from 360°.

I always hung two where a turn was so I wouldn’t get locked in and keep on trucking right past the turn.

 

[LeanMachine]

Life hack. Put a tack on going and coming sides. But i get your point. To each their own.

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[dalton916]

Still not anywhere near as visible as clothes pins and you can hang and remove clothes pins without ever breaking stride.

 

[HokeyMike]

I use cloths pins to mark my way in and use the tacks to mark the tree I climb. The other advantage. I can from low handing limbs. You can’t see during the day but really light under flash light


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[Jason Wandling]

I’ve never been a fan of them because it lets others know where I hunt, however I have had times that I wish I had put them out while stumbling around in the dark looking for my stand.

 

[dalton916]

That’s part of the beauty of clothespins.....like I said, they’re easy to hang and remove. There’s no need to leave them forever on public land. Find a spot and mark it on the way out for the following morning then remove them on your way in. Or mark on your way in to an afternoon hunt and remove on your way out.

 

[Aeds151]

Not legal on Fed Public Land. Just putting it out there.


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[Nebo]

Garmin works wonders and you cannot see the marks. Pro tip

 

[LeanMachine]

I only use markers on private and honestly i dont even do that anymore since the prevalence of cell based maps. I can mark locations and routes and reference them as needed.

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[dalton916]

Sometimes folks hunt some thick spots near bedding and don’t want to stumble around with the 10M one way or the other accuracy of a gps.....

 

[LeanMachine]

Cool. Keep doing you what works for you. I manage to knock down a few deer a year so i will keep doing what works for me. Different scenarios. Different methods. As long as dead deer are the result.

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[Jase244]

I use the tacs to mark my bolt holes

 

[IkemanTX]

I mark trees with a double reflective tack.
I won’t mark trail entries, and I won’t mark anything a flashlight could shine on from a trail.... but I typically mark the final tree.
I share trees with a couple of local guys, though.. so a GPS coordinate and a thumb tack might be all someone has to go on.

 

[AWoods1605]

I’ve been using clothes pins and reflective tape for years now. They work great. Problem with tacs are that people put them everywhere sometimes it’s hard to tell yours from old ones someone else put out. Clothes pins really come in handy when blood trailing deer. It’s easy to get turned around in the dark without them.

 

[Smokingbarrel270]

My brother uses the trail marker clips and they shine line a super highway. I get down early and remove his clips on the way out.

 

[Nebo]

A roll of toilet paper also stays in my bag for marking trails. Especially useful when trailing deer and marking blood.

 

[dpierce72]

Personally, I like creating tracks on my 64s - I pay for 7min topo detail and overlay OnX ...so it's a great tool. With a track, I can navigate around thickets, to specific creek crossings, and no one besides me knows.

I do like creating a track (if it's a known spot) since a 'direct shot' from parking is not always the best route to take due to obstacles.

If you can follow tacks, safety pins or other ...so can everyone else.

I will place three tacks (rotated around the tree) at hunting height on a kill tree so when I get close, I can find the tree and set up more easily in the dark.

 

[Nebo]

Personally, I like creating tracks on my 64s - I pay for 7min topo detail and overlay OnX ...so it's a great tool. With a track, I can navigate around thickets, to specific creek crossings, and no one besides me knows.

I do like creating a track (if it's a known spot) since a 'direct shot' from parking is not always the best route to take due to obstacles.

If you can follow tacks, safety pins or other ...so can everyone else.

I will place three tacks (rotated around the tree) at hunting height on a kill tree so when I get close, I can find the tree and set up more easily in the dark.

This is exactly my method and hasn’t failed me yet. I am not sure I want to hunt without my garmin 64 anymore. When I leave it at home I feel naked. I think being conspicuous is paramount, but I hunt public land exclusively.