not necessarily crossbow related but the new GPSr I bought last fall was worth its weight in gold during the gun deer season this year, even with the sh*tty base map it came with...
I havent gotten any good mapping software for it yet(which is soon to come), and theres a world of things that can be donewith custom map making,although from whatI've looked into it it looks pretty complicated and at this time I have no idea of how to do it, which I'm going to devote alot of time into learning when(or better yet IF) I get laid off this year

I use aerial mapspretty heavily to scope out new hunting spots(amongother things), and with all that plus all the GPS mapping I plan on getting into my plan is to pick up a laptop capable of handling it and devote it exclusively to all the mapping work I seem to be getting into(which canbe used "in field"), plus picking up an extra GPSr or two for the more "directionaly challenged" members of our hunting party to use when necessary



at this timethats the hot"item" for me to have for next year