I got lost this morning!

[jwk1340]

I thought I got lost one time, but I was misoriented! Much better to be turned around in the AM.

 

[Shutter Monkey]

A couple of years ago bringing my climber down a tree in the evening, a mist came up before I got down. I found what I thought was the trail by a stream I'd followed walking in... an hour later I realized that the stream forked and I'd been following the wrong branch. It was a bowel loosening moment for me. I had no gps, no cell phone signal and like an idiot I'd left my compass back in the truck. Not a pleasant memory.

 

[erkinator]

Get huntwise or Hunt X apps. great tools

 

[Porter Rockwell]

yep been there.

 

[Bear44]

I generally have a GPS, but mine bit the dust since last deer season.

I don’t care to use them on public property, just gives everyone else a map to my stand. LoL

I've used them for many years on public land and never had a problem. Of course I hunt deeper than most folks will go and place them far enough apart that unless you know what you're looking for they are easy to miss.

 

[Falcon1]

Get huntwise or Hunt X apps. great tools

Hunstand is a good one as well. I wear my red headlamp and check to make sure I am on the right path every few mins in the app.

 

[bass222000]

Those little glow in the dark. Thumbtacks are pretty handy .....

Just saying .....

^^^^^This^^^^^

 

[InTune]

Im here now aint I, so never got lost . Had to find my way a few times. Exhausting!!! Had a co worker invite me to his land. I marked the way in with some glow in the dark thumb tacks the day before. Went in, climbed a tree, mid day, got down and walked around a bit. I never was able to find that stand. Had to go back the next day and follow my way again to find it. On my property, I would mark the deer trails with survey tape as high on the tree as I could reach, I would then place my stand about 40 yds off the trail. It helped in low light to focus my attention past the brush that was nearer . I was ribbed about marking the trails for the deer. "You afraid they gonna get lost"?

 

[Jal5]

I got turned around a couple times over the years in the AM. Now I use those reflective thumbtacks and the rope that you connect to from ground to stand has reflective stuff in it too.

 

[Dallasdave]

I shot a doe right before dark several years ago and she ran into some planted pines, it was 11pm when I got back to the 4 wheeler and I never found the doe. I crossed the blood trail half a dozen times trying to find my way out of there. Now I carry spare flash light with me for when the batteries die