Hunting GPS map for Indiana????

[moose1am]

Anyone have one of these Hunting GPS maps for the State of IN.

www.huntinggpsmaps.com/

These are suppose to be put into a Garmin GPS unit like the Montana or the Oregon and then show the property lines and owners names on the digital map.

I'm thinking about buying the micro SDHC card for IN and trying it out but wanted to check to see if anyone else has tried it first.

If it does as they say it should be a good tool to use while driving around the area and while walking out in the field. It should show you on the GPS map where you are and who's property your one and which properties are near by. That way you can find out if you have strayed off the public property and onto a private property or not. And if you have written permission to hunt a certain property you can see where you are located and if you are on the right property.

Now they don't have all the day for Dubois and none for Orange County. But they say that they have the data for Warrick, Pike, Spencer and Vanderburgh County. And they have data for one of the three counties that Patoka Lake is located on.

I think I read that they also have contour lines for the lakes in IN. But I want to see the data before I spend another $125 on this thing.

They are making some new stuff for the Iphones and in beta testing for the Android Type phones. Evidently you can download these data or an app and use this map data GIS for your phone.

If I had a phone I'd go that route. But I think I found out that they want you to pay an annual subscription of $30 a year for the use of this data on the I phone.

If you buy the Chip Micro SDHC card with the data on it for the Garmin GPS unit you can get the card updated for a fee every so often.

As the sale of property continues to happen and properties get bought and sold over time. So they have to get the updated information from the Federal, State, Local County or City Government agencies and update the card data.

You can download a program that allows you to update the data on your card on your computer at home or send the card into them and have them update it for you and mail it back to you.

Here is the link to the web site where you can read up on this stuff:

www.huntinggpsmaps.com/

[jrbhunter]

I have the card in a Garmin Rhino. I also have birdseye on the Rhino, and the GIS programming on my smartphone, and run a laptop in the truck with other data pulled up as I'm out getting permission to hunt.

I think you'll find that these services are only as good as the data they're pulling from. Some are using 2001 data, some using 2003, and others have 2012. It's odd that some of the poorest counties have the most accurate and detailed information available, while high tax-revenue counties are often outdated.

There are a lot of tools available out there, but I think you'll need to hunt a lot and cover some ground to make these $150-$800 investments worthwhile.

[moose1am]

Hey Jason:

Thanks for the reply. I'm hoping that the data is good for Warrick County. But I won't know unless I invest and get the data chip and see for myself.

I really don't expect it to pay off money wise. I'm not that worried about the money so much as the information being good. If I can get one or two properties to hunt I'll be good.

I've already spend more money on the equipment than I could ever make back in pelts or anything. I do it for the fun. Gearing up is fun to me as much as hunting.

It's taking me forever to get to the point where I actually go out hunting a lot. I'll probably never get out and hunt like you or the others but I hope to kill a couple of coyotes someday. I do it to help motivate me to get out and get more exercise.

I'm not going to be around forever and need to have something to do.

I've been diagnosed with cancer and have heart problems to boot. I will probably die from heart disease before I die form cancer at least that what my Dr tells me now. My heart was damaged when I had a heart attack and didn't know what was going on. By the time I had another heart attack and got help my heart was already damaged from the first heart attack. After open heart surgery I felt so much better. But it takes time to get back in to shape and that's what I'm trying to do now. I'm not getting any younger. Now I found out that I have severe sleep apnea and have to wear a breathing mask all night.

Getting out and hunting keeps me going even if it's limited in scope. It's something to look forward too I guess.

I fish in the warm months whichs helps me with excersize, but I needed a way to stay active during the winter months too.. I need to keep the weight down to help with my heart problems. I went walking today which I probably would not do if I didn't think it would help me get in better shape for hunting.

I figure that I can't take the money with me when I die so I might as well use some of it before I go. Well that's my story and I'm sticking too it.

I'm not worried about spending an extra $100 bucks but I don't want to waste money either. So I appreciate knowing that you have the Garmin and use the Hunting GPS data card. That's encouraging.

Yea I forgot about the Birdeye subscription. I don't own a laptop. Wish I had something that I could use to connect to the net at times when I'm mobile. I don't even own a Smart phone. Wish I did as I found that the company is making a map program for the androids now. It's in beta testing right now from what I understand.

I do think that if the data has the property lines it might help if I ever go to the Hoosier National Forest down in Perry County. I won't get there too often though. I'm pretty limited in how far I can travel due to the age of my old truck. I don't trust it as it's got over 200,000 miles on it and it's 28 years old. I have to worry about the Carburator failing as right now the float gas level is way up to the top and it's only suppose to be 1/2 way up. And my Nissan Mechanic that I was using refused to fix that for me since he said the truck was running good. But it's failed on me two times before I changed the spark plugs. It burns oil and the oil fouls the spark plugs along with the excessive fuel in the float bowl.

Most of my hunting will be in Warrick County as we have a lot of wild areas that the coal mine companies own. And I guess lots of people hunt on these lands as they are out in the boonies away from houses. It's pretty rough area with lots of scrub brush and the visibility is poor due to the scrubs and bushes. Only certain areas have large open fields of view and they are heavily hunted from what I found. The one time I went there I found another hunter already in the spot I was going to hunt. He beat me to the spot. LOL

If I don't get to hunt coyotes I can always just go shooting at the range with my new toy AR15. That's a lot easier on me than hiking three miles in the bush up and down hills trying to carry all the gear to hunt solo.

Jan 16, 2014 9:11:16 GMT -5 jrbhunter said:

I have the card in a Garmin Rhino. I also have birdseye on the Rhino, and the GIS programming on my smartphone, and run a laptop in the truck with other data pulled up as I'm out getting permission to hunt.

I think you'll find that these services are only as good as the data they're pulling from. Some are using 2001 data, some using 2003, and others have 2012. It's odd that some of the poorest counties have the most accurate and detailed information available, while high tax-revenue counties are often outdated.

There are a lot of tools available out there, but I think you'll need to hunt a lot and cover some ground to make these $150-$800 investments worthwhile.

[moose1am]

Jason have you got the most updated verion of the card for your Garmin. I thought they sold updates for a small price.

That way if the country or the State updates the Plat Data you can update the Card with the new information.

I did see where they didn't have any data for Orange County up by Patoka Lake and limited data for Dubois County where Jasper, IN is located.

I've seen some nice big coyotes along the roads up at Patoka Lake over the past two or three times that I"ve been up there. And a friend of mine who has a camp in the Wildridge Campground said he hears the coyotes howling in that area at night. They can be heard just to the West of his camp from what he told me. He goes out riding around the camp ground in his gas powered golf cart and takes his little dog with him to or three times a day.

Jan 16, 2014 9:11:16 GMT -5 jrbhunter said:

I have the card in a Garmin Rhino. I also have birdseye on the Rhino, and the GIS programming on my smartphone, and run a laptop in the truck with other data pulled up as I'm out getting permission to hunt.

I think you'll find that these services are only as good as the data they're pulling from. Some are using 2001 data, some using 2003, and others have 2012. It's odd that some of the poorest counties have the most accurate and detailed information available, while high tax-revenue counties are often outdated.

There are a lot of tools available out there, but I think you'll need to hunt a lot and cover some ground to make these $150-$800 investments worthwhile.

[moose1am]

Well I need to find some land to hunt so I went ahead and ordered one of the Data cards from X Hunts or Hunting GPS. I'll try to write a review of the data card when I get it and try it out. I'm hoping it will help me figure out who owns the lands that I've scouted and will let me target them and get permission to hunt coyotes.

Figuring an approach is what I'm thinking about right now. I read a good article on the web about how to go about asking for permission if you don't know the land owner or have any mutual friends. It was saying more about what NOT to Do than what to do. Hopefully I'm be able to obtain a few parcels of land to hunt that are not overrun with other hunters and where the coyotes are not being called or shot at day and night like on the public lands I've been hunting. To me it's worth $100 to get to hunt and have some fun. I'm not going to be here forever and now it the best time for me to get out and do some hunting. My eyes are getting worse and I could have a stroke one day and not be able to walk or talk. So I need to get this done before something like that happens. When I get to be 65 in a few more years I'll have the cataracts taken care of in my eyes. But right now my left eye is giving me problems seeing clearly even with new eye glasses.

And if you wear eye glasses on a cold night they tend to fog up and make it nearly impossible to see anything at all until you clean them off. This happened to me on my last night hunt and I didn't have anything in my hunting vest or pockets to clean the glasses with. I now have a clean soft eye care cloth packed in my hunting vest. The last time out was a trial run. I'm trying to figure what I need and what I can leave at home or back in the truck. I got some lens cleaning cloths that are suppose to help keep glass from fogging up. I know when I was younger and did scuba diving the facemask glass would often fog up on me. We were taught to just spit on the inside of the masks glass and rub it in and then rise it off to keep the glass from fogging up again. It worked too. Sort of a nasty thing to do but it worked and allowed me to see out of the mask while diving. Something in the spit keeps the glass from fogging up. And it's a cheap way to keep the glass clear. You don't have anything to worry about leaving at home as one always should have a little spare spit for the scuba mask's glass.

[moose1am]

Jan 16, 2014 9:11:16 GMT -5 jrbhunter said:

I have the card in a Garmin Rhino. I also have birdseye on the Rhino, and the GIS programming on my smartphone, and run a laptop in the truck with other data pulled up as I'm out getting permission to hunt.

I think you'll find that these services are only as good as the data they're pulling from. Some are using 2001 data, some using 2003, and others have 2012. It's odd that some of the poorest counties have the most accurate and detailed information available, while high tax-revenue counties are often outdated.

There are a lot of tools available out there, but I think you'll need to hunt a lot and cover some ground to make these $150-$800 investments worthwhile.

I don't have a lap top but sometimes I wish I had one. I know that GIS is but have not really used it much other than to look at the country property tax records to see who owns what land and where it's at.

I've got some paper 7.5 Quadrangle maps of the county but my old GPS didn't have UTM map coordiantes on it. I just found out that now my Garmin Montana has UTM map coordinates that I can use on it instead of the Longitude and Latitude map coordinates. So know I'm able to get out in the field and mark some way points using UTM map coordinates and then come home and match them up to my Topo maps.

I understand that the Hunting GPS ditial map have topo contours on them too.

I thought about getting a years subscription to the Garmin Birdeye stuf but then I'll have to learn how to use the Garmin Software. I'm not at all familiar with the new Garmin Mapping Software. I used the old Map Source software with my older eTrex Vista GPS. I lost that unit when it fell out of my truck some how. So Base Camp Software is all new to me now. Looks like I have to study and learn how to use it in order to make the best of the Hunting GPS data. All this is a lot of work IMHO. But I'll give it a try to see if I can figure it out. It's probably not that difficult to use. It's just new to me right now.

I just updated the firmware on my Montana yesterday so maybe that's why I can now use the UTM map coordinate with this GPS unit. Or maybe it was there all along and I just didn't see it before now.