A great time to fly

[bluealtered]

This may not be what you think it is. What i mean is it's a great time to fly google earth. If your snowed in or about to be, or perhaps just can't get to where you would like to hunt because of the weather, then it's a good time to bring up those hunting spots that you haven't worked in years and see if you need to revisit them when spring gets here.

I have spent the last couple of days just google earth flying around this end of the state and came up with a half dozen places i either haven't been in years or a few places i just never got to but always meant to.

Some of those places brought back great memory's and others have me wondering why i didn't go there to begin with. This state is very good in that most of the city people on the other side of the state would rather stay in the city and fight with each other than come to our side of the state and actually have miles and miles to themselves. Each to their own i guess, some of the places i just flew to haven't changed in the twenty plus years since i was there last.

So if like me the cabin fever has set in, then by all means use that computer to get you out of the house and start planing your hunts for this year.

 

[Knotwild]

That's a great idea, but unfortunately a lot of low lives use it for scouting for poaching access to property. Last weekend we even had a goon fly a drone over the duck pond to try and run the ducks out. So, although useful, I wish knowledge about us and our lives was not so easy to obtain by others.

 

[Immike]

I have looked a few vacation places before I went just to see what’s there or how it lays.

 

[jds holler]

I also share your state, and live on the "red side" of the mountains. Things have definitely changed in the sixty years I've lived here, but we at least don't have to drive for hours to shoot a gun. I've watched my favorite spots get posted, closed, developed or shut down because of abuse. I can still find great camping or shooting within ten or even two miles of my house however.

Google Earth is indeed a cool toy for a day in the house. I also use it daily on my job as a delivery guy. I frequently have to take my loaded truck into spots that don't have real addresses, and often not even real roads. I have literally used Goog to interpolate where a road "probably" is, or should be based upon some sketchy directions that someone has given me. I call it the Captain Kirk Syndrome. "To go where no man has gone before." To do this with sixty thousand pounds of truck and product, it's kind of nice to expand the view to discern whether or not the goat trail I'm on dead ends in a rock pile somewhere. jd

 

[spencerhenry]

Google Earth is OK, but I prefer burning 100LL and seeing it first hand!

 

[bluealtered]

jds i certainly agree with everything you have said, yes it does seem crowded anymore, ... right up to the point of my being forced to go to the "big" city for some reason, then it's peddle to the metal to get back to the sanity of the country. I flew down hwy26 to Unity yesterday and couldn't believe the number of ranch's that had popped up in that sagebrush country in the last 20+ years.

However that doesn't bother the coyotes any, they are still there and still come in when you call. Of course some things don't change, ... the rattlesnakes still get bailed up when the rancher cuts the hay in harvest and it's still best to look before you step or sit when calling in that country.

 

[KMart]

That's a great idea, but unfortunately a lot of low lives use it for scouting for poaching access to property. Last weekend we even had a goon fly a drone over the duck pond to try and run the ducks out. So, although useful, I wish knowledge about us and our lives was not so easy to obtain by others.

Is it still flyable or did the dog have to retrieve it?

 

[hogpatrol]

It is a great time to fly. The engine is making more than rated horsepower and you go like a banshee. Better have a good heater though.

 

[spencerhenry]

It is a great time to fly. The engine is making more than rated horsepower and you go like a banshee. Better have a good heater though.

I was getting nearly 1400fpm climb out last weekend, at 7000'! The heater works well, but there is no insulation, hardest part to deal with is the ice cold yokes!

 

[hogpatrol]

I was getting nearly 1400fpm climb out last weekend, at 7000'! The heater works well, but there is no insulation, hardest part to deal with is the ice cold yokes!

That's smokin!