Trackable Bluetooth Knocks for bowhunting?

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I see the possibility of it not being legal...let's say you shoot a deer not fatally and now you have real time tracking on him...? If it isn't deemed illegal I would think that the price would have to be dang close to a lighted knock for them to sell a bunch but who knows...


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Grandslam11":3pvrlkad said:
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/breadcrumb-designs-the-first-trackable-bluetooth-nock-and-location-marker/

I just saw this one Facebook. It is crazy how technology is evolving in the outdoors. What are yall's opinions on this? I don't think id ever but them unless price was right. I am guessing they will be very expensive.
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Sometimes I think technology goes too far and a hunter has to decide where to draw the line at something being fair chase and when it's not. I could see the advantages of it. Especially when a deer has been mortally hit and killed, but a hunter can't find it. It could also be abused like in the situation tree_ghost mentioned. Assuming the arrow is still in the animal. I'm too cheap to buy lighted nocks, so I don't ever see these being in my quiver.
 
I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone putting one of these onto a blow dart and shooting it into a nice buck before season starts haha.
 
With the limitations on range and battery life they mention for the nock I don't see it being worth a lot for recovering a deer. You have to be within 100 yards of it to detect it's location plus the battery runs down in only 35 hours. It could help but you'd have to know pretty well where the deer went already to even be looking for the nock with your cell phone. Also the fact that most arrows seem to pass through the deer makes it unlikely to be able to find a deer this way most of the time. It looks to me that it's being advertised mainly as a way to find your arrows rather than the target animal.
 
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The little boxes would be handy for deer stand/blinds. Especially finding one in a thick area or sending in someone that doesn't know exactly where it at.
 
It's possible that you could track a deer with this system but on the majority of the deer I've taken with a bow the arrow either passed through the deer or the shaft broke off while it was running. Either of those scenarios and you wouldn't be tracking a deer. I have lost quite a few arrows burying under grass or dirt. That's where these nocks would really shine... no pun intended. The unit for attaching to your stands, etc. would really come in handy. I can't count the times I've headed to my stand and had to spend some of my time in the dark zeroing in on the exact location. Within 100-150 feet and it'll show up. I could live with that. The prices right now on pre-ordering are the same on either unit...1 for $29.99, 3 for $63.49, and 6 for $119.99. I may think about this.
 
I think it would only work if the nock came detached when the arrow passed through.

I dont think it is technology gone too far for hunting, since it is not an aid in hunting, but an aid in recovering your deer, which is something we all should exhaust all efforts to do after making a shot.
 
catman529":1sq25319 said:
I think it would only work if the nock came detached when the arrow passed through.

I dont think it is technology gone too far for hunting, since it is not an aid in hunting, but an aid in recovering your deer, which is something we all should exhaust all efforts to do after making a shot.
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i think it's an aid in arrow recovery. I cannot remember the last time my arrow didn't hit the dirt on the other side of a deer.


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I looked at developing the identical product couple years back but the way most states game laws are written it would be considered illegal, also the technology wasn't cost effective at the time to move it off of paper. When you look at the price of an arrow and broadhead, it gets expensive to leave one in the field. Its neat to see how quickly the technology has advanced in a couple of years.
 

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