SAFETY TIP

[Dbllunger]

How will someone find you in the woods if there is an accident?

I think I post about this every year so here it goes again. For smartphone users with cell service at their hunting location.

1) BEFORE you climb into your tree or even a ground blind. Pull up google maps on your smartphone.

2) Zero in on your location with the gps on the application.

3) Press and hold on your location and a marker pin will appear.

4) Press on the marker pin and select share. You can then email/text or whatever with the exact coordinates to your loved ones or hunting buddy.

Since I hunt alone most of the time and my wife hasn't really been on the hunting lease much, I do this everytime I hunt so that if I were to fall or have some type of heart attack, she could give those coordinates to the proper authorities.

Good luck and be safe everyone.

WEAR YOUR HARNESS!!

 

[catman529]

I've had trouble with the marker pin being inaccurate when I send it to someone. Usually ends up in someone's yard or a street several hundred yards away. Not sure why....

 

[BSK]

You're assuming I own a smartphone. And if I did, I would take it hunting. Neither are true!

 

[HOOK]

You're also assuming I've got cell service where I hunt.

 

[Vermin93]

Great advice and I have done it before.

I have all of my set stand sites marked on Google earth. I have provided a list of the lat/long coordinates to my family and girlfriend. I have also printed out the Google earth map showing my marked stands. I show them which one(s) I intend to hunt that day. If I am not going to a set stand site, then I print a Google map of the area that I am going to and I circle the general area I will be hunting in.

 

[tailchaser]

Good post, I have a dumb phone, but I do tell the wife where im going to be, and what time to expect me home,

 

[Urban_Hunter]

We have somehow named all of our stands... I just tell my wife I'm going to the motel, my evenin' spot, cuz's evenin' spot, my bow spot, etc. If there were a problem, she can call my cousin who would know where I was talking about.

 

[MUP]

Great advice for sure, but I have no cell service in half the area that I hunt...the other half I can barely text from, and can't even make a phone call at all. But, definitely worth posting this advice tho.

 

[Dbllunger]

For smartphone users with cell service at their hunting location.

You're assuming I own a smartphone. And if I did, I would take it hunting. Neither are true!

I assume nothing knucklehead

 

[Vermin93]

Great advice for sure, but I have no cell service in half the area that I hunt...the other half I can barely text from, and can't even make a phone call at all. But, definitely worth posting this advice tho.

That's why you mark your stand sites with a GPS and give a printed list of coordinates to someone. Tell them which stand or stands you intend to hunt. If you don't come home, they give the coordinates to the authorities or come look for you themselves using a GPS.

 

[EastHipster]

Thats a good tip.
My wife 'knows' where I am hunting but it is a large parcel of land.

 

[TN Larry]

Also, if you have the App Where's My Droid on a Droid phone, it will send the coordinates of the phone if someone is looking for you. That is assuming that you have your phone, it is on, and with service. But if so, it will give you the coordinates.

 

[Dbllunger]

Also, if you have the App Where's My Droid on a Droid phone, it will send the coordinates of the phone if someone is looking for you. That is assuming that you have your phone, it is on, and with service. But if so, it will give you the coordinates.

Yes, I have this app as well.

 

[MUP]

Great advice for sure, but I have no cell service in half the area that I hunt...the other half I can barely text from, and can't even make a phone call at all. But, definitely worth posting this advice tho.

That's why you mark your stand sites with a GPS and give a printed list of coordinates to someone. Tell them which stand or stands you intend to hunt. If you don't come home, they give the coordinates to the authorities or come look for you themselves using a GPS.

I've not been able to get my gps unit to get a signal at three of my stands. I must not have a good one.

 

[JeepKuntry]

Some of my areas have no cell reception. But I generally write down and map my most popular spots for reference.

 

[Nealmeally]

WEAR YOUR HARNESS!!

The most important thing!!