Looking at getting a gps for hunting, navigation, plotting spots ect ect, what's everyone use and recommend and why?
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Tian
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Looking at getting a gps for hunting, navigation, plotting spots ect ect, what's everyone use and recommend and why?
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Tian
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a bloody old magellan, never failed me yet. set home point and it will return me everytime. unfortunately it got dropped awhile back and is quite pixelated but still works.
I went for the Garmin 650. Built in radio means I'm in touch w buddies when on a wallaby drive or whatever.
Plus I like the touch screen and that I could load a map into it
Garmin GPS60csx, because it was cheap, its reliable, and it has snake game on it
My phone. Just as useful as the above and has better maps.
+1 Galaxy S6. Get reception (gps) everywhere I did on my Rino.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
Garmin 62s from cabelas on sale
Just loaded nz topo 50 on the iPhone for $5.99, have a play with that tomorrow.
Interesting let me know how you get on as I've a trip back here me planned in two years and don't really want the cost of a gps on top of travel etc. I'm old school and use compass/watch mostly anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kooza
Garmin Dakota.
I can program it with tracks, routes, and boundaries either DOC or private stations. I loaded NZGPS freemaps on it and it can be used with a profile for offroad and a separate profile for onroad and effectively a navi.
Despite my user name I tend to memorise a map and go with a copy of the map in my bag as a backup along with a compass. I tend to navigate by time and the lay of the land using a few landmarks on the way. Quite handy that I can convert the contour lines on a map to a 3D image in my head to triangulate peaks and get a reasonable fix of where I am.
I'll often take a GPS but really only use it as a gadget to keep me occupied in camp.
Ive got an old model Magellan 310 upgraded that i sometimes carry but really im a compass and map kind of guy.
The thing I like about the likes of the Garmin units is they are more than just a gps, allow you to plot routes and record routes, altimeter, barometer is great and I pretty much have the knack of predicting weather by monitoring trends using it. Plus snake game, you can not underestimate the importance of snake game on those rainy tent bound days. Plus you look badass when you have a gps hanging around your neck, anyone who sees you would know straight away this guy is rugged and manly as they come and he means business, use a phone and all the good looking trampers you come across instantly think you're just some yuppy that got lost on his way to a meeting
You'd be wrong on that in the areas that many of us hunt in. Zero cellphone reception, esp in gullies/thick bush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildman
Nice for checking mail/ keeping in touch -IF- there is a signal but it's never a reliable navigation tool for many of us.
The gps in cellphones doesn't need cell reception to work. It uses the same satellites the normal gps uses.
They're not as reliable or accurate as a proper gps though as the receivers in them are designed to work in an open environment. We walked back down to camp off a ridge on Price range near whataroa a while back after it clouded in really heavily, camp was on a tussocky terrace so no real features to recognise to let you know where you were, you literally could only see about 6 or 7 meters in front of you, my gps led me straight to camp and the bloke that was hunting with me used his phone and ended up about 60 or 70 meters away yelling out to me to find where camp wasQuote:
Originally Posted by stug
I use a Garmin Alpha and have my GPS App on my phone (phone in flight mode) set on tracking and in the top of my pack as a plan B.
I use the Garmin Rino 650
Chose it because Garmin make bloody good GPS units and I wanted the radio feature so I didn't have to carry a seperate GPS and Radio.
I had a Garmin 62 before the Rino and loved it
Both units are very accurate and very reliable.
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Pete
What maps are you guys using on your phones?
Navionics is brilliant for the sea but no good on land
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me too but the map files are hugeQuote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Garmin 62s I think, the orange one no idea what maps I'm using they came on it
The last time I used a GPS was my Garmin Astro for the pig dogs a few years ago, was very impressed with it, may get another Garmin one day.
Hiya Gadgetman. Can I borrow your head next time I go out, please? I trust my Garmin 62s but it's good to have something to check it against sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadgetman
With a GPS round ya neck they'll be all smiles when they walk past ya. They'll be laughing because you look like you couldn't find your own way out of a wet paper bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I'm using a 62s borrowed from work. Works bloody well. Also have maptoaster loaded onto the phone with the whole South Island downloaded topo50. That's bloody useful at checking out areas quickly, also has all conservation boundaries. Can use that to plot tracks and record in real time etc but wouldn't trust it in place of the gps.
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I use backcountry navigator on my phone (mostly just as a backup, have paper map+compass and a decent sense of direction too), the phone GPS chip doesn't get a fix on satellites as well as a dedicated GPS unit in valleys and under thick bush etc though.
Units that can use the Russian GLONASS satellites as well as GPS work better for NZ as the GLONASS orbits take them further south over NZ.
I did use a garmin 78, as its water proof, great device never failed good, on batteries. Bought an alpha 100 and found the GPS works great and the unit is very rugged so I flicked the 78. I remove the collar antena when using it without the dog. It fires up quick and locks on to satelites quickly too. Good thing about it is you can share with other devices and with other alpha users you can message them and track them too.
an old yellow etrex,gifted too me by a forum member after my ones screen got lines on her and was dificult to read.
why???? because its all I need
it tells me where my wagon is
it tells me where Ive shot deer and placed markers before
it works in the thick bush and gullies if you give it a bit of sky to see.
90% of where I hunt you only have to walk downstream to get out to wagon anyway.
map n compass are old school and work....in my main hunting area any of the above are only really needed in fog.
You are very funny :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I have a Garmin 62s and it was a life saver on Stewart Island. I carry a compass, map and spare batteries as back up.
Garmin etrex 20, cheap, tuff, colour screen and can take topo maps.