Garmin GPS

[jlirot]

Gaia and iHunter for the maps.

[todbartell]

I’m going to throw another idea out here . I understand I can use my cell phone as a GPS . Any of you fellas do that ?
What is the best app to get for hunting hiking if your goning to pay for it ?
Thank You !
Arctic Lake

I wouldn't trust my life to a cell phone. It's not in the same league as a Garmin GPS

[Arctic Lake]

I was just going to ask about this . When you use your iPhone as a GPS does it not use a satellite like a Garmin . My apologies fellas
Arctic Lake but I’m the least tech savvy guy on HBC !
Arctic Lake

I wouldn't trust my life to a cell phone. It's not in the same league as a Garmin GPS

[todbartell]

It does, but how precise, or more importantly, how repeatable is it? And how durable is an iPhone compared to a Garmin which you can abuse and submerge under water

[mike31154]

I was just going to ask about this . When you use your iPhone as a GPS does it not use a satellite like a Garmin . My apologies fellas
Arctic Lake but I’m the least tech savvy guy on HBC !
Arctic Lake

What Todd said. Plus, if you're not tech savvy you're going to have a fun time trying to load the proper maps & choose the best phone GPS to use. I've played around with some of the phone apps (android) & none come close to the useability & features of my Garmin Montana. Might as well use Google Maps. How good are the batteries in your phone? Can you change them out when they die? No, you need a charging source. Montana gives me 3 options, proprietary rechargeable battery pack (removable), AA batteries or external power source through the interface cable.

[Arctic Lake]

Thanks Mr. Bartell
Arctic Lake

It does, but how precise, or more importantly, how repeatable is it? And how durable is an iPhone compared to a Garmin which you can abuse and submerge under water

[Arctic Lake]

Mike I think you have convinced me to forget the iPhone idea .
Arctic Lake

What Todd said. Plus, if you're not tech savvy you're going to have a fun time trying to load the proper maps & choose the best phone GPS to use. I've played around with some of the phone apps (android) & none come close to the useability & features of my Garmin Montana. Might as well use Google Maps. How good are the batteries in your phone? Can you change them out when they die? No, you need a charging source. Montana gives me 3 options, proprietary rechargeable battery pack (removable), AA batteries or external power source through the interface cable.

[Arctic Lake]

So I’m back to which Garmin to purchase ? From what I have read a touch screen is good ? I would think larger screen is good ? InReach good ? But could you purchase a dedicated alert separately ?
Arctic Lake

[Pioneerman]

My GPS just died on me after 20 years, so decided to grab a new Garmin. Did not go for top of the line, but a GPSmap 64SX on sale at Cabela's It comes with basically world maps, but was not really happy with the detail of the maps, so also just added the back roads map and works amazingly well, plus with my old GPS I could not transfer onto Google earth, this format from my Garmin, is instant to lay track and waypoints to google earth and save them. I did try the Gaia that was suggested to me but not even remotely close to a really GPS, when trying Gaia it did not ever really do anything, you have to download the map of the are you are going to, then from what it seemed that I had to then put my position on that map. It probably works better than I got it working, but I want reliability and all the tings that come with a true GPS navigation system

[Outbound]

Heads up, garmin has a sale on today which includes $250 off the 66i and free shipping.

https://www.garmin.com/en-CA/p/623975