Larry (IL)
Well-known member
This is a post I started in the DFX Forum as a general discussion topic to keep things going in the winter months for many of us, but I thought I might get a bigger audience here and maybe some great ideas too:
Nancy bought me a Triton 1500 GPS for Christmas, that is the handheld unit which is great for Geocaching, hiking and the like. I then bought an automotive unit for my truck and both have their advantages. Sure, I can mark waypoints of where I found some targets, but I don't need electronic help in remembering that. The truck GPS is a Mio Moov 200 with POI, (Points of Interest) and I thought that is the cat's meow for finding schools, parks and other places to go hunting while traveling in areas I'm not familiar with. I tried it out and and the POI's are fantastic. I pressed Parks and it listed all of the parks in a twenty mile radius from where I was. All I do is press "Go to" and it give me turn by turn directions to the park of my my choice. Schools were just as simple. The POI functions are fantastic and if you ever get a GPS, be sure to get one with a large POI database. Campgrounds, restaurants, police stations........they are all there. BTW, the MIO 200 was $99 at K-Mart. I have tried my hand at Geocaching to keep the hunting instinct fire a going even in the winter with the Triton. That is a lot fun too, but sure won't replace the metal detector come better weather.
So...........what are your or other ways to use a GPS for metal detecting?
Nancy bought me a Triton 1500 GPS for Christmas, that is the handheld unit which is great for Geocaching, hiking and the like. I then bought an automotive unit for my truck and both have their advantages. Sure, I can mark waypoints of where I found some targets, but I don't need electronic help in remembering that. The truck GPS is a Mio Moov 200 with POI, (Points of Interest) and I thought that is the cat's meow for finding schools, parks and other places to go hunting while traveling in areas I'm not familiar with. I tried it out and and the POI's are fantastic. I pressed Parks and it listed all of the parks in a twenty mile radius from where I was. All I do is press "Go to" and it give me turn by turn directions to the park of my my choice. Schools were just as simple. The POI functions are fantastic and if you ever get a GPS, be sure to get one with a large POI database. Campgrounds, restaurants, police stations........they are all there. BTW, the MIO 200 was $99 at K-Mart. I have tried my hand at Geocaching to keep the hunting instinct fire a going even in the winter with the Triton. That is a lot fun too, but sure won't replace the metal detector come better weather.
So...........what are your or other ways to use a GPS for metal detecting?