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Trail Marking?

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#1 ·
Just wondering how you folks do it? Flagging tape? Tacks? Also any odd ways of marking trails?
 
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#5 ·
SlickShot said:
PocoYoco hunter said:
GPS is the only way I mark a trail then no one can follow to your spot
Yep, I would do the same if I was hunting public land, but you don`t need that on private or leased land....
Actually thats what I'm talking about, public land.
 
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#7 ·
MonsterBuck7 said:
GPS x2. I don't leave home without it. If your tacks or ribbons are missing, I probably got them.
Yep go with a GPS on public land, that's why we hunt private land, there is less chance of someone stealing things.....
 
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#11 ·
I've seen idiots mark trails from the base of a mountain to the top with fluorescent paint slashed on trees. They would use different colors where different members of their group would apparently split off. As for myself, I don't use anything. The last thing I want is other hunters discovering someplace I've worked hard to find. If you really can't find your way back to someplace you want to, like was said, a GPS is your best bet. At the MOST, maybe brighteye tacks spread very far apart. When you get to one, you should barely be able to see the next. At least they are invisible in the daylight. I'll admit, if I am entering a new area and see trails marked, I often follow them. I've found several nice areas like that, and I get in earlier than most......
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#13 ·
george snoke said:
I take pride in removing tacks and ribbons on state land in PA and MD.
I wish guys would do there own policing and also wish people like you would leave those markers be. I've had my GPS, a RINO, be off by 20 ft or more at times. In the full foliage months you can easily miss an obscure trail or turn, so the markers are a backup at key spots.
 
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#14 ·
I personally hate seeing ribbons and bright eyes all over the woods. I will on occasion use one bright eye at my tree and always take that with me after I am done hunting. I have never had any problem finding my way in or out of the woods in the dark. I hunted some public land this year one evening and it was a 35 minute walk to where I wanted to hunt. Someone else had also been hunting this spot and had orange ribbons tied every 50 feet or so even on an old service road, I was thinking this guy must get lost in his own livingroom.
 
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Pa.Bone said:
I personally hate seeing ribbons and bright eyes all over the woods. I will on occasion use one bright eye at my tree and always take that with me after I am done hunting. I have never had any problem finding my way in or out of the woods in the dark. I hunted some public land this year one evening and it was a 35 minute walk to where I wanted to hunt. Someone else had also been hunting this spot and had orange ribbons tied every 50 feet or so even on an old service road, I was thinking this guy must get lost in his own livingroom.
Yes I agree I hate seeing them on public land also. But on private land with permission or your own land, I see no problem with them.....But I would never touch them if there not mine.
 
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#17 ·
I used the tacks when they first came out, but if you didn't know the "code" you could've found yourself in a briar patch. I marked the easy path so I made very little noise busting through thickets. Most of the reflective tape fell of those early tacks halfway through the season - so I switched to white cotton strips of cloth or cotton balls A) biodegradable B) a little doe in heat leading mister big in LOL. Now I use GPS but still mark specific tree(to climb)
 
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#21 ·
I mark the paths to the stand on my land with small piece of flagging tape always on the right side of the trail, a triangle reflective tack at turns then back to tape. 2 tacks at the stand base

Having a few friends who hunt here makes it easy for them and keeps noise to a minimum with approcahes
 
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3 Jaegers said:
I mark the paths to the stand on my land with small piece of flagging tape always on the right side of the trail, a triangle reflective tack at turns then back to tape. 2 tacks at the stand base

Having a few friends who hunt here makes it easy for them and keeps noise to a minimum with approaches
Yes we do about the same on our property, you are right ..it keeps noise to a minimum when sending a friend to a stand...
 
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