Reason why Mapping and GPS are important!

This is not much of a story, but it is an example of wanting to know where to hunt.

I have known J. Henninger for a great deal of years, along with his brother Brian Henninger the PGA golfer.  John use to hunt with his brother Brian a great deal when their children were young.   I had lined up Brian to hunt on old ranch in the Grizzly Unit for Elk and Deer, so John had the privilege to be able to hunt the Old Smith Ranch outside of Antelope, Oregon for a number of years.

Last year I get an email from John that he had gotten an Oregon Warner Unit Pronghorn – Antelope Tag for rifle hunting.  Wanted to know if I had spots for the Warner Unit.  Sent back an email that I had it dialed in for hunting Lopes for the unit.

Told John I would send him waypoints and what GPS does he or does he have a GPS and any mapping for the area.   After a number of emails, John did have a Bushnell GPS.   Hmm!  This will take some work and I sent him TXT file that he would have to hand input into the Bushnell GPS.

Of course I said to John, now get yourself a colored Garmin GPS and get the mapping from the Montana company which now is called Hunt onXmaps.

I get text message from John in the field that the file won’t load to his Bushnell GPS.  Great I tell myself, why hadn’t he call me sooner and get this straight?

I then printed out the TXT file and send a JPG picture of it to John to hand load to his GPS.

I did later get a text message from John that he had harvest an Antelope in the Warner Unit of Oregon.  Hmm!

In closing on this short blog of the Oregon Warner Rifle Antelope Hunt in Oregon, is that you wait from 10 to 20 years for a tag, why not spend a little bit of the gas money that I have saved you and buy a good Garmin GPS and the proper mapping to go with it…

The above picture of John’s Oregon Buck is a great picture.   Very clean and setup well!

Bwana Bubba aka Frank Biggs