OnX Connected Hunting Optics a step too far

[timber_hunter]

OnX now has a feature where you can mark animals with compatible rangefinders and it will export the animal's location to your app. I think this is a step too far, but maybe I'm getting old and crotchety. What do you say? Is this still fair chase? If you think this new technology violates fair chase, why do you continue to support onX?

 

[Nick87]

OnX now has a feature where you can mark animals with compatible rangefinders and it will export the animal's location to your app. I think this is a step too far, but maybe I'm getting old and crotchety. What do you say? Is this still fair chase?

We crossed that line a while back.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

OnX now has a feature where you can mark animals with compatible rangefinders and it will export the animal's location to your app. I think this is a step too far, but maybe I'm getting old and crotchety. What do you say? Is this still fair chase? If you think this new technology violates fair chase, why do you continue to support onX?

I don’t have one but you can do basically the same thing manually. They have the direction/range finder compass thing so you can range a target and then orient your phone the direction of the target and drop a pin at X number of yards. Another option I’ve used successfully when I’m not sure the OnX compass is correct is just dropping a waypoint where I am standing and turning on the waypoint radius to match the distance of the target.

 

[gouch]

So, the app automatically creates a waypoint using that fancy range finder as opposed to you manually creating that same waypoint using a bearing and a plain old range finder?

That's your red line when it comes to using technology for hunting.

 

[jimh406]

Other than ease of use, it's not that different than what you can do on your own.

 

[BAKPAKR]

For even moderate range shots, pinning the location of an animal (or where it was at the shot), either manually or with a linked rangefinder, can sure make recovery easier.

 

[Brad]

About the only technology I'd like to see adopted is a "chipped" arrow so all the archery hunters wounding elk in Montana can actually recover some of those animals...

 

[Nick87]

About the only technology I'd like to see adopted is a "chipped" arrow so all the archery hunters wounding elk in Montana can actually recover some of those animals...

If you think there's some questionable shots taken now....

 

[Brad]

If you think there's some questionable shots taken now....

I don't think it would change that one bit.

 

[WapitiBob]

About the only technology I'd like to see adopted is a "chipped" arrow so all the archery hunters wounding elk in Montana can actually recover some of those animals...

We were offered one when I was at Golden Eagle in the early 80's and we passed. I suggested Coleman (our parent company) put the technology into a bracelet for kids to wear when camping, to aid in location should a kid wander off.

 

[rogerthat]

About the only technology I'd like to see adopted is a "chipped" arrow so all the archery hunters wounding elk in Montana can actually recover some of those animals...

I’d like to see chipped bullets for the same reason. Bet that would be eye opening. Whole herd would be gps’d

 

[Big Fin]

About the only technology I'd like to see adopted is a "chipped" arrow so all the archery hunters wounding elk in Montana can actually recover some of those animals...

I think such technology already exists.I was approached by a company that has such technology inserted in the nock of the arrow. I declined.