Going hunting in November

Chazz

Chazz

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I'm taking my son with me hunting this year and we rented a house with some of my uncles and cousins.I am not familiar with the woods we will be hunting in and I was wondering what some of you guys useTo not get lost. Ex...GPS , compass, map etc.Ps I don't have a map of the area and never used a compassI don't plan on walking to far from the house but sometimes you just get turned around and everything looks the same while in the woods...Any good ideas?
 
Listen for the highway. Sun rises in the East and Sets in the West. Take you phone but don't forget to shut it off. Take a Whistle and matches along with extra TP for fire starter. Tell the others to honk the horn if you do not return. Follow streams downhill and you will hit civilization.

Follow the kid. My dad did. He would go around a tree and get lost where I always knew the way back to the road. Maybe not the truck but at least the road. Drive the roads nearby so you have landmarks to know which way to turn.You could take your car GPS. Just mark the house on it before you leave and you can walk back to the spot with it.
 
Follow the kid, that's funny but very true....lol

I took my son hunting last year, he's was 10 yes old, he just sits with me and I let him shoot a bb gun and a 22 at targets after the hunt.
We rented a house with a bunch of our uncles and cousins. We had some old timers with us, middle aged and young bucks
3 generations and we had a blast. I was shocked when my son woke up at 5 am dressed and ready for his first day of hunting. I was worried about him being to cold,making to much noise,and just being around guns. We found our spot I had marked out the night before and sat down and settled in, it was about 7 am. I herd a noise and was looking to my right and he was taping me on my shoulder saying Dad, Dad, i turned to him and said you have to be quite son, and he said but look
Sure enough there was a beautiful 4 pointer about 50-60 yards away staring at us. My heart starting beating and I told my son, don't look at him and he was so excited he put his fingers in his ears and was saying shoot him Dad.
The buck started to trot away about another 30 yards up the mountain and I had him in my scope while I was on my knees
I pulled the trigger and got him with a clean shot. My son watched me gut him and we went back down the mountain and we were back at the warm house by 8:15. He now thinks hunting is that easy, but that was my second Buck in 22 years of hunting. Anyway my son has been talking about that trip for a whole year and we are getting ready to try a new place this year and I will have my good luck charm with me.
 
Get some Garmin Rino GPS/radios. Everone I hunt with has one and when they key up their location will pop up on your screen. If someone in your party shoots something they can key up and you walk right to them. I guess the new ones are touch screen. I have a Rino 120 I think. Older but works good. It has saved me from spending the night in the woods a couple times. BTW game officers also listen to them.
 
Having a great time, so far we spotted a deer on the run but couldn't make out if it was a buck or doe. We are here with three generations of family and having a blast lots of laughs, food, booze and the kids are having such a good time
 
I grew up hunting, never had a compass, no gps, no maps.

Honestly I dont know how I am here? I just remember that when I went in the woods I paid very close attention to All of my surroundings and my instincts took over from there.

Many times we would look for a deer someone had shot and wounded and not have any idea where we were and always got back.
 
Getting lost is one of my biggest fears. I bought a gps, works great on the lake, but in the woods it doesn't get a signal a lot of the time. Compass has saved me quite a few times.
 
Russ Spence said:
I grew up hunting, never had a compass, no gps, no maps.

Honestly I dont know how I am here? I just remember that when I went in the woods I paid very close attention to All of my surroundings and my instincts took over from there.

Many times we would look for a deer someone had shot and wounded and not have any idea where we were and always got back.
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Is it flat ground where you hunted? Thats what would freak me out if i got lost. Around here as long as you get up high your gonna recognize a mountain or something and have an idea where you are. I have had a couple close calls with it getting dark, but flat ground and thick woods would not be fun to get turned around in.
 
The cheapest and effective way to get back to the camp is to buy a $3 roll of survey tape ( the orange or pink kind) and after about 50-100 foot or so, cut off a foot of the tape and tie it to a branch a little over head high so you can see it from a greater distance. Not only does it give you a trail to come back, but it also gives your buddies a trail to you if anything did happen.
 
Tony R said:
Is it flat ground where you hunted? Thats what would freak me out if i got lost. Around here as long as you get up high your gonna recognize a mountain or something and have an idea where you are. I have had a couple close calls with it getting dark, but flat ground and thick woods would not be fun to get turned around in.
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No its all over the place, hills, knoles, valleys, creek beds, old stage coach roads, fileds an trees but the worst place is in a pine thicket cause everything looks the same everywhere.
 
Chazz said:
I'm taking my son with me hunting this year and we rented a house with some of my uncles and cousins.I am not familiar with the woods we will be hunting in and I was wondering what some of you guys useTo not get lost. Ex...GPS , compass, map etc.Ps I don't have a map of the area and never used a compassI don't plan on walking to far from the house but sometimes you just get turned around and everything looks the same while in the woods...Any good ideas?
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All you need is a good compass, when I hunted strange property in upstate NY I would bring a small can of reflective orange spray paint. I would mark the trees on the way out and it worked great getting back, always bring a good flashlight. Where are you hunting at? We still have 200 acres up in Liberty NY.
 
Sounds like a great time you are a lucky guy my daughters have no interest in hunting. The do want to learn how to shoot though so thats good.

I just got back from opening weekend here no bucks and 2 days in the woods. We did get 2 doe and a antler less buck on the first day about 20 min before the end of the day. It was nice to get out and not worry about anything for a while.
 
Tony, that's a Monster Buck. Wow!! Converse on that one

Chazz , Liberty from what I have been told is awesome hunting. We were about an hour north of LIberty (Walton NY)
 
Chazz said:
I'm taking my son with me hunting this year and we rented a house with some of my uncles and cousins.I am not familiar with the woods we will be hunting in and I was wondering what some of you guys useTo not get lost. Ex...GPS , compass, map etc.Ps I don't have a map of the area and never used a compassI don't plan on walking to far from the house but sometimes you just get turned around and everything looks the same while in the woods...Any good ideas?
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Just talking to my Boys about shooting some Jackrabbits
 
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