I bought a hand held GPS decades ago when I was hunting religiously. And that unit was amazing when it first came out. It would bring me out to my truck within yards of where the truck was parked. It ate batteries like candy though. If you got 8 hours out of the 8 AA batteries, you were doing exceptionally well. I still have that unit yet and have't used in decades.
It was well before 2K issues and I thought once we flipped over to 2K it would be toast because nobody really knew what it would do. It worked perfect after the year 2000 came in. And of course that was way before the accuracy was so good on them. These days we take such things as normal. But there were days when GPS wasn't widely available or as accurate as we now enjoy.
One thing I did do with my hand held unit was, I was in a hunting club, and for the most part we all knew where our deer stand were located, or so we thought. I went to all the corners and captured those setting in the GPS. And then I wen to every deer stand in existence and captured those locates as well. Then I went home and uses scatter chart function using MS Excel and plotted the entire hunting club out on a paper graph. We all were very impressed to see how the deer stands were actually located to each other. The birds eye view was amazing to see in such accuracy. And it was a lot different the any of us thought.
Just reminiscing here. :facepalm:
