Just wondering how you folks do it? Flagging tape? Tacks? Also any odd ways of marking trails?
Trail Marking?
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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
Having a few friends who hunt here makes it easy for them and keeps noise to a minimum with approcahes
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GPS for me. By the end of the season on public land I almost always have a whole bag of reflective tacks to throw away or give to someone who wants them for private land. Flagging tape is also thrown away.
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Saw something this year I'd never sen before....a fella had a battery powered strobe light attached to his treestand, that is activated with a remote . Don't know how far away it would activate, kinda startled me when I saw it flashing in a tree one morning.
I beg to differ.SlickShot said:
I remove the stupid tacks - and the tapes- because they are LITTER left behind by Litterers.
Besides, I highly doubt nighttime hunters appreciate your glow-in-the dark trash. I know I sure don't.
Simple rule that everyone should know
you pack it in,
you pack it out.
I know how to find my way around in the woods I hunt, and I hunt a lot of area in some of the state’s most remote areas. I do carry a GPS and have many locations marked, but rarely turn it on until I get pretty close to my stand location. I usually don’t use a light while going to or from either, though on really dark nights I will sometimes use the light. I mark my stands with my name, CID #, etc. on a piece of computer paper placed inside a sandwich bag. I then put a couple reflective tacks inside the bag and holding it onto the tree my stand is in. That makes it easier to find my stand in the dark. Before learning to do that I would sometimes have a hard time finding the exact tree even when I was within sight of it and new it was in that immediate area.
I usually don’t remove flagging and/or markers others have put out because I wouldn’t want to be responsible for someone without great woodsman skills perhaps being lost and dying when they couldn’t find their way out at the end of the day.
Dick Bodenhorn
I usually don’t remove flagging and/or markers others have put out because I wouldn’t want to be responsible for someone without great woodsman skills perhaps being lost and dying when they couldn’t find their way out at the end of the day.
Dick Bodenhorn
My neighbor uses the brightest orange paint imaginable to mark his land....this idiot has 30 acres of an almost perfect rectangle of property. If he goes out his trailer and makes a left he runs into a township black top road. If he makes a right he goes downhill to a stonewall and a hi-line. He says he painted the trees so he wouldn't get lost!!! Sometimes I feel like I am hunting in Studio 54 when I am along side his line. Only thing missing is a strobe light!
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I personally don't use bright eyes or tape but don't have a problem with folks who do so long as they take them back down. Problem is, most folks don't.
As soon as your hunt is over, if you leave all that stuff it's no better than a trail of beer cans.
As soon as your hunt is over, if you leave all that stuff it's no better than a trail of beer cans.
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I can find any of my spots without the use of anything, but I always have a GPS with me.
As far as the tacks, they don't bother me as much as the trail ribbon. I hunt public land and this year I must have removed a garbage bag full of that crap tied to trees! I swear every third tree had ribbon! It looked like someone was having a freaking parade!
I know the hunters doing it too. A group from Maryland hunt this SGL because the ribbon extends from their 2x4 stands erected on the SGL. I guess every time they wander away from their stands they put up ribbon so they can find their way back. It looks disgusting!
As far as the tacks, they don't bother me as much as the trail ribbon. I hunt public land and this year I must have removed a garbage bag full of that crap tied to trees! I swear every third tree had ribbon! It looked like someone was having a freaking parade!
I know the hunters doing it too. A group from Maryland hunt this SGL because the ribbon extends from their 2x4 stands erected on the SGL. I guess every time they wander away from their stands they put up ribbon so they can find their way back. It looks disgusting!
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I like to use tacks instead of ribbon. Mainly because I don't have to remove them and they're aren't as much of a type of "litter". But when I do use tacks, I like to arrange them in a certain way that is a code for me. For example, 3 tacks in a vertical line means go right.
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I recently saw a commercial for invisible paint that glows in the dark. Its being marketed for marking trails for hunting. If Walmart decides to sell that stuff the woods will never be the same.
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Some of the State game lands we use it is terrible how many we find. Many types, different colors and most have been there for a long time. Removing them is a fun way to break up the scouting routine and listening to the complaining when someone can't find thier way. Always fun.
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I wouldn't hunt this one area I knew was good because someone had bright eyes going in where I wanted to go. After a few years I noticed they started falling off the trees but I still stayed out. One day a couple years after that I decided I was going to try it out and went in there and hunted. That was probably 8 years ago and I have never seen another person while I've been there.btbowhunter56 said:
I missed out on a great spot for a long time because someone left them up and probably only hunted there once.
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