Howdy folks,
I guess I'm going to ask a question that may seem a bit obvious to some, yet to me it seems baffling. I recently purchased OnX for all 50 states. My experience with it before was to aid in waterfowl hunting by looking up landowners with fallow corn fields that geese were feeding on in my home state. Now that I'm using it to plan for something out of state on public land, I get how the layers work showing me where the public land is, but my next question is, what else am I looking for?
Right now I am holding a pretty decent northeast wyoming pronghorn tag, as well as a region deer tag that overlaps the pronghorn unit. Trying to plan my hunt, I'm looking at areas that have shades of yellow, blue, purple, green and so on over a satellite image of the area I plan to hunt. I understand that the shaded areas I am legal to walk onto and fire my rifle at an animal that I have a tag for, so that gives me a place to start.
My main question then is, using the different layers, and content seen from the satellite and topo maps, what are some things I need to look for in order to plan a hunt? Is it just roads leading to the shaded areas so that I can access them? Or should I narrow it down further by looking at places that might offer things such as water, forage, elevation change, woods (or lack the thereof).
Sorry to have to ask something so simple, I have hunted elk, waterfowl and whitetail in areas where the geography is different than eastern wyoming and where there was no question on what was legal to hunt and what wasn't. if someone came to me asking these questions, I would have a hard time explaining what areas in my mind are good because they look "ducky" or "deery".
I guess I'm going to ask a question that may seem a bit obvious to some, yet to me it seems baffling. I recently purchased OnX for all 50 states. My experience with it before was to aid in waterfowl hunting by looking up landowners with fallow corn fields that geese were feeding on in my home state. Now that I'm using it to plan for something out of state on public land, I get how the layers work showing me where the public land is, but my next question is, what else am I looking for?
Right now I am holding a pretty decent northeast wyoming pronghorn tag, as well as a region deer tag that overlaps the pronghorn unit. Trying to plan my hunt, I'm looking at areas that have shades of yellow, blue, purple, green and so on over a satellite image of the area I plan to hunt. I understand that the shaded areas I am legal to walk onto and fire my rifle at an animal that I have a tag for, so that gives me a place to start.
My main question then is, using the different layers, and content seen from the satellite and topo maps, what are some things I need to look for in order to plan a hunt? Is it just roads leading to the shaded areas so that I can access them? Or should I narrow it down further by looking at places that might offer things such as water, forage, elevation change, woods (or lack the thereof).
Sorry to have to ask something so simple, I have hunted elk, waterfowl and whitetail in areas where the geography is different than eastern wyoming and where there was no question on what was legal to hunt and what wasn't. if someone came to me asking these questions, I would have a hard time explaining what areas in my mind are good because they look "ducky" or "deery".
