GPS for Ol'Coots, finally!

[Darrell Davis]

Finally, a GPS unit this Ol"Coot can use without packing a four year old along to run it!

My son gave this unit, a Bushnell "BackTrack", to me for CHRISTmas and it is just the ticket for most uses I can envision myself being in.

Very simple, and small.

Doesn't give a lot of stuff I probably couldn't remember anyway, yet will allow me three marked points and VERY SIMPLY give me direction and distance back to those points.

I had thought about a GPS, and in fact tried one a fellow was going to give away because of an update.

That unit would never pick up the needed three signals for me so I took it back.

Anyway, being a user and not a techie, I wonder if I could even use one of the commonly units available, and didn't want to take the time to find out.

NO problem, the BackTrack is so simple even an Ol'Coot can use it!

Keep em coming!

CDOC

[Siskiyou]

Interesting product.



http://www.bushnell.com/gps/gps_backtrack.cfm?section=General%20Use

http://www.bushnell.com/gps/files/BackTrackManual.pdf

The Back Track will fit the needs of the consumer who has limited expectations.  I would not mind playing with one, but I do not plan on buying one.  When I am out hunting I create a lot of waypoints for deer beds, tracks, sightings, and other points of interest.  I understand that Back Track is limited to three locations.  The link below has some user reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-36-0050-BackTrack-Navigation-System/product-reviews/B001DTX4NC

If I was buying Christmas presents for the grandkids it would be idea for one, but would not meet the expectations of another who has used a mapping gps.

I can think back when having a guest hunter with us.  The concern was the guest getting lost.  One (relative by marriage)  caused me so much concern that after dropping him off I went to a position from which I could keep track of him.  To be fair the man had traveled a few hundred miles to a location he had never been.  Travel to the drop-off point had been in the early morning darkness.  It would have been great to have had a Back Track the night before to explain its simple functions so early in the gray of the next morning he would have been set to go.

[Darrell Davis]

Yep, no question about it, the BackTrack is limited.

However, considering I hunt most of the time just a 4wheeler ride away from my home, I don't need/want all the razzle dazzle mess'in with me, nor do I need a lot of "Way Points" recorded and confusing me.

With the BackTrack, I could set it up to record a couple way points, but would find it much more usefull to help me get as close as possible on the 4wheeler and then guide me over/through the last hill brush patch to my buck.

If I had one of the do all GPS units, this Ol'Coot would have the same problems with it as I have with my pooter and be even less likely to have a 4 year old along to help me.

As I indicated in the origional post under this topic, we have in the BackTrack, a small/quick GPS unit able to pin point three points and give a direction/distance to those points all the while requiring limited skills for operation.

As per all the other deer beds, trails etc. this Ol'Coot, even as rusty as he is, still has an "on board" memory system able to record all such data.

Last Fall I came out to one of the many roads in my hunting area, knowing where I was but not knowing how far I was from where the 4wheeler was waiting.

I plan to go back to that location this Spring and find out. Plus, there was a nice ridge line complete with beds that I'll want to check out.

I don't need to know how to get there, I know that, but knowing the distance involved will be a help.

The BackTrack will supply, in spite of very simple and user friendly features, everything I need.

Don't buy one with grand expectations, for it is what it is, a simple and relatively cheap GPS, made for the likes of Ol'Coots just like me.

Keep em coming!

CDOC