GPS for hunting

[Quackwhacker]

I played with Dougs too, and I want what he has 

Are we still talking about GPS'?
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[Quackwhacker]

I used my buddies Oregon last weekend. Fell in love with it.  I am ordering mine tommorow.  I am going with the Oregon 450 and getting the 24K map download.  It comes out to be about the same price as the 450t but with better maps.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Used my GPS this weekend to mark the spots where I saw Bachelor pods of big bucks in Velvet!  

-Steve

[MtnMuley]

I used my buddies Oregon last weekend. Fell in love with it.  I am ordering mine tommorow.  I am going with the Oregon 450 and getting the 24K map download.  It comes out to be about the same price as the 450t but with better maps.

Spend a little extra and go with the "T".  3D mapping is incredible.l

[SkookumHntr]

What do you guys use to clean your gps screens?

[JackOfAllTrades]

A 530 in my day pack would be SWEET!

Not in the cards right now though. Gonna have to go another season with my 120.

-Steve

[nontypical176]

Got a rhino and don't like it.  Not enough buttons for one and the built in radio don't get out as well as my $40 cheapo walkie talkie.  The garmin 60csx is good, and gets better satelite reception + lots of buttons.  When your in the field you don't want to fiddle around scrolling to different screnes to see what your doing.  Terrain Navigator is an awesome PC program that works with most all GPS's, makes it way more fun.  I used several different gps units at work and simplicity is the key, when your in the bush.   

[buglebrush]

A 530 in my day pack would be SWEET!

Not in the cards right now though. Gonna have to go another season with my 120.

-Steve

[pods8]

I just picked up a Delorme PN-40 off amazon for $216, and so far I dig it.  Decent base map software for north america is included, then for $30/year you can download unlimited USGS quad maps and aerial photos.  The aerial photos showing roads, timber coverage, etc. are sweet.  Worked great in east side timber, I haven't dived into the west side ferns/moss/overcast skies with it yet.

[bobcat]

I've been wanting to try that Delorme. It sounds great. Problem is I already have the Garmin 60CSX and can't justify spending the money on another one right now.

[pods8]

I've been wanting to try that Delorme. It sounds great. Problem is I already have the Garmin 60CSX and can't justify spending the money on another one right now.

I hear you, luckily I was in the market for a GPS period here and thought that was a good deal so I passed it on.  I was looking at the 60csx but for basically the same money it didn't come with any maps worth a darn and is memory limited.  The delorme can accept up to 32gb flash cards and the package I got has 5 dvds to load in portions of whatever state you want and once done it covers detail down to side streets and 1:100k topos (if I recall correctly on the exact specification) which is basically going to be fine for the casual wanderer.  The aerial and usgs quad downloads at a fair price, in my mind, just sweeten the deal.

I would like to compare this to a 60csx under poor reception conditions though.

[LCG]

I've been wanting to try that Delorme. It sounds great. Problem is I already have the Garmin 60CSX and can't justify spending the money on another one right now.

 I was looking at the 60csx but for basically the same money it didn't come with any maps worth a darn and is memory limited.  The delorme can accept up to 32gb flash cards and the package

I just got the 60CSX with a 64MB card for $200 at Cabelas last sale and a $50 credit on their card event. Havent played with it yet but appears to be pretty nice for the money.

Don

[bobcat]

That's a great deal. I paid almost $400 for my 60csx a few years ago.

[Hillbilly270]

just got the 60csx for my bday.  like it so far but need some kind of map for it.  not sure where to start.

[pods8]

I just got the 60CSX with a 64MB card for $200 at Cabelas last sale and a $50 credit on their card event. Havent played with it yet but appears to be pretty nice for the money.

Don

I was looking at that too but then you have to pony up $100 for each region of the garmin maps, buy another memory card because 64mb doesn't hold crap (but you're limited out to 2GB on that unit I believe, apparently getting the 4GB cards to work is hit/miss).  Thus I was looking at $150 (with the card credit accounted for) + $100 for each geographic map package + 200mi of driving for me to get to Lacey and back.

$216 w/ free delivery & map coverage for north America looked pretty sweet at that point.  Came with 2GB card (listing said only 1GB but they sent 2GB) as well which offers reasonable storage out of the box.  (Edit looking at amazon currently they have it priced ~$230 right now, it was $216 when I picked mine up a few weeks ago).