Anyone else do anything like this?

[Autumn Ninja]

i use to years ago, i have notebooks full of maps i drew with all deer sightings, trails, rubs/scrapes and wind direction along with the dates. i am still hunting the same piece of public today after more than 30 years. [glow=red]drawing the maps and knowing certain little details that no aerial will show gives you alot more insight to why deer are doing what they do.[/glow] this is also when my wife was convinced i was obsessive compulsive. i would sit up all night studying maps and drawing out game plans for the next hunt. i call it a good time

Thats my opinion.

Nope, never done that...

But I have been drawing beds, oak flats, water holes, parking, deer trails, rub lines, scrape lines, all type's of transition, other hunters tack trails and stands sites on topos for the past 25 years.

[dan]

I mark up aerials and topo's... Its easier and more accurate.

[SaddleMaster]

I've marked up topo's for years.

Red line = trail
Small red slash = rub
Red circle = scrape
Green circle = food
BB = Buck bed
DB = Doe bed
M = mushrooms

[Bigdaddy-yoyo]

I tend to be not that techy.....so I am like you Zap, but I also mark up my topos. Seems to really cement the area in my little noodle when I draw it out.........tough getting older

[BigHunt]

I mark up aerials and topo's... Its easier and more accurate.

i do the same ....i have a marked one and then a blank clear copy of the marked one

[Scot]

I admire your discipline! No I do not go to that effort. I do enter information in to my GPS and I do study topo's and aerials quite a bit. I Put in a lot of walking as well.

[Zap]

I tend to be not that techy.....so I am like you Zap, but I also mark up my topos. Seems to really cement the area in my little noodle when I draw it out.........tough getting older

I dont draw it, thats tracing paper.
Tape it to moniter and trace off of acme, only takes a minute and is pretty accurate.
GPS screen is very hard for me to see, or so I think it would be as I cannot see my blackberry screen alot of the time.

[BigHunt]

I tend to be not that techy.....so I am like you Zap, but I also mark up my topos. Seems to really cement the area in my little noodle when I draw it out.........tough getting older

I dont draw it, thats tracing paper.
Tape it to moniter and trace off of acme, only takes a minute and is pretty accurate.
GPS screen is very hard for me to see, or so I think it would be as I cannot see my blackberry screen alot of the time.

[Zap]

I tend to be not that techy.....so I am like you Zap, but I also mark up my topos. Seems to really cement the area in my little noodle when I draw it out.........tough getting older

I dont draw it, thats tracing paper.
Tape it to moniter and trace off of acme, only takes a minute and is pretty accurate.
GPS screen is very hard for me to see, or so I think it would be as I cannot see my blackberry screen alot of the time.

Get off my lawn.....

[BigHunt]

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