day two early archery antelope season here in Wyoming glassin glassin
glassin for antelope some antelope out there but we're having a hard time
from this distance telling if they're on the private or public yeah we'll pull
out the On X I'm thinking the antelope are over in here but they might be here
or they might be here and so we're just navigating through here to figure out
where they are I'm pretty sure they're on on the state land
as everybody knows
it's hunted out here's you really checkerboard II there's just private and
public land intermingled plus we're in a big section right now of public land
but it's new to us we haven't really been in it and so I pre downloaded the
layers that I needed On X maps and their new 4.0 app is money they've
dialed in some things and you know they're apps up to this point of them
very useful and fairly user friendly but they've taken it to the next level
especially with offline feature so as you can see there's a nice offline
button that you push and you hit the pre downloaded map that you wanted tap on
the screen I'm gonna hit my location it'll take us right to where we are and
we're gonna track us just make sure we can remember where we're going and it's
tracking us right now it's as simple as that and then it'll save all this to
your account and then you can also view this on the computer version on the
desktop version super handy tool something to seriously consider either
looking into getting one of their state layers which you can buy them
individually it's gonna be a one-state membership or you can do their elite
membership you get all 50 states and so if you're covering a lot of ground it's
it's really the best bang for the buck that you'll ever find
all right so we're back in the office and the other day we were out in the
field and we were taking some tracks on waypoints in the antelope area here in
Wyoming that we are hunting and filming in and just to show you how seamless the
new interface is as long as you are logged in to your account on your smart
device or on here they totally talk to each other but just to show you how
quickly and easy it is we were just out last week took some tracks got some
waypoints you can see that it is already up on the screen now what I'm noticing
here is it has the wrong species unit boundaries of compared to what I have on
my device and so that's very easy to do we just go into layer settings then you
can change which species hunt unit boundary that you can do you can also go
to my content and pick all the points that you put on your smart device or
vice versa and navigate right towards them on your desktop
On X Maps has always had a pretty friendly user interface and it just
keeps getting better and better so now they have the hunt 4.0 app out that's
the brand new one that they just launched here for 2017 and also new for
this year is we partnered with them with our members research section from the
magazines and we streamlined the data down for them given the most easy to
read information so that they can plug it into their system and for 2017 which
is ready to go live here in September I believe the Eastman's MRS layer for all
11 western states for deer elk and antelope is going to be on there so you
can look at preference points you can look at the hunt management unit
boundaries you can look at the draw odds for every unit this is just one more
thing to have that in your back pocket literally in your back pocket when
you're out in the field What most people need this technology for it is very
windows-based user-friendly you're not writing code anymore it's not dos
commands like we used to have to do don't let that intimidate you even if
you're new to technology dive into it learn it and you will not regret it it
makes life a lot easier while you're on the field