Hello all from Battle Mountain NV,

I am new to the forum and generally excited to see this post. I have to jump in here if you don't mind. I'm kind of a geomatics nerd.

As in most things, you get what you pay for. Your average (Walmart) handheld unit will get you close to the pin and work well for general traverse navigating. If you spend a little more you can track more satellites and achieve a higher level of accuracy. I see Gjersy knows a little something about surveying or just googled Glonass. Glonass Is a Russian satellite system that compliments the trimble GNSS (as well as others). It doesnt mean anything unless you incorporate a radio link from your base station to your rover for precise accuracy. Hand helds track satellites without the use of radio, hence the (1 Meter) deviation.

Higher end Hand Helds are useful and somewhat accurate if they are tracking a good number of satellites simultaneously.

Just got back from a Nebraska black powder hunt. I will post pics soon!

Welcome Wonkyeye, I know about glonass due to logging off sand mine properties.

What the hell is a Sand mine? Frac sand? Sounds like a Wisconsin thing. Aren't the Sand Mines tearing up the Wisconsin landscape?

Yes the sand mines are around, but we get by with other land, logging/cutting regeneration, the deer love that.

Yeah Gjersy we mine like crazy in the high desert as well. Lots of acreage out there.

Anybody, Help me out. Im trying to post a pic of my buck but when I try to attach the file it fails.

What am I doing wrong?

You probably are over the size limit the site will accept. Try downsizing the photo using Paint or whatever you have on your computer to mess with photos until the site will accept it, as I'd bet that's your problem. If that's not the problem, send it to me in an email and I'll see if I can post it for you: [email protected]

Oh, and welcome to the site!!!

Postimage.org, try that.

Thanks Topgun and Gjersy. I will give it the old college try!

I recommend a GPS course and a good hand held like my Garmin etrex which has Glonass technology, when i enable it, it gives me way more satellites than just gps. It was a few hundred and another hundred for a card/chip. The GPS logging, course I took saved my butt many times as property owners at times mark there lines way off, and the guy who cuts the tree thats over the real line is the one who gets sued. It gives a guy a lot more confidence when hunting areas with tough public access. And believe me or not it's consistently accurate. Thats why i have the utmost confidence that i crossed the corner, whether or not corner crossing is legal i still don't know?

Most of my experience is out west, Arizona and California. Knowing where you are is only half the battle. The other half is the human factor. Some guy has the grazing rights and thinks he owns the place. When bluster and bombast fails he goes for the Sheriff.

Part 2 whether right or wrong the Sheriff writes you a summons, you plead not guilty, costs you a day off work.

Part 3 You either hire a lawyer or take whatever is provided. Makes no difference if you are right or wrong, it is likely the judge is going to side with the Sheriff. Another day off work. You end up paying the fine, court costs and the lawyer.

Part 4 You end up paying for an unnatural sex act you never requested and didn't want, it hurts every time you sit down.

You have no rights, might is right. There is often a rather large credibility gap between right and wrong, what should be and what is.