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Old 03-23-2004 | 03:50 PM
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dkbs
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Howdy
I have a garmin legend and love it. Its my favorite hunting toy. Great for marking stand locations, trails and what not. I always carry extra batteries because when they start getting weak the system is definitely slower.

Heck this garmin can even find its way home. I've posted this story before, but its worth repeating. One fall day while bowhunting, unknownst to me, my case containing the gps slid off my fanny pack belt, while I was adjusting the belt for the fanny pack. I was hunting on public land which is 26 miles from where I live. When I got home I showered and when I got downstairs my oldest son says "somebody rang the doorbell and then put something into the mailbox." I went to the mailbox and here was my gps and its case. Somebody had found it and brought it right to my door before I actually new it was missing. I never knew who these two gentlemen were, but I'm very thankful. There were about two or three other vehicles at the parking lot that day, mostly pheasant hunters I believe.
I'd owned the unit a year prior to that, but about a week or two earlier a brother thats a lifer in the Air Force came home to visit before heading off to Iraq and showed me how to have it open up its screen with my name and address.
Those guys were some real sportsmen.
Dan
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