So, I'm part of another forum for archery hunting. Two threads just popped up about posting property lines. This must happen often.
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"Ok I have a question for those of you that have done this. My grandparents own 10 acres in a nearby county that they've given me permission to hunt. It has never been posted and needs to be. I have access to the local Gis website but obviously that's not a legal plat of the property. After I get a plat, how can I go about posting the property. I don't mind getting a compass and doing it that way, but with modern tech it's got to be easier. I don't have a gps but I've got my phone which can be useful although not foolproof. So any ideas about posting this property? Also how about how often to post signs and other tags identifying the line?"
THEN, on another thread someone asked about GPS with property lines and asked if there's a map that shows property lines. He has a problem with someone trespassing and wants to pull out his phone and show that guy he is on his land.... They were directed to www.huntinggpsmaps.com and said they used them to post their property.... Now this guy thinks he can use that to show a guy his property line...
SOME people that responded recognized the need for a TRUE survey and told him to spend his money wisely that way than in court. They even knew to tell him to go to the local court house and find deeds of adjoining properties to help him but he seems to think his GPS on his phone will find the corners. He says there is GPS points on his survey and he should be close to finding true corners with his phone. Others discouraged him from having it surveyed because the "price" was too much.
Oh boy... I might just sit back and grab some popcorn for this thread on the archery hunting site. Can't wait to see the follow up.
This whole affair, is a little skewed. I mean, it seems like one of the forts we built as kids.
They were kid forts, but, not too livable. Except to us.
Ha ha ha!
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I always love when I get a call where someone asks me, "How much for you to come out and mark my property corners?" As if every single property corner has a monument. Sometimes they realize that the corners don't necessarily have a monument. But even then, they typically assume that I can just walk out there with my GPS on my first site visit and punch in a number and set a stake at the corner.
Now, since everyone has a nice little hand-held GPS receiver in their pocket, more people are getting the idea that these GPS apps are giving them some sort of solid and unvarying positional information. I expect more problems to arise since Google Earth shows Assessor's Data overlaid on their aerial photography and you can get a Lat/Long on a corner.
I kind of like that Mr Stopper put this under "humor". Or should it be legal issues? Me thinks the later.
Regardless, hunting land implies woods. How does your GPS work in the woods? All GIS maps & Giggle majic airwave data nothwithstanding of course.
Even my $100 Garmin E-Trex gives me numbers. For setting line, I tend to walk the perimeter and gather a waypoint on each corner. Then just stake out to said waypoint on your next trip around the perimeter, paying very close attention to the heading (bearing). Always helps to check the rear view mirror to see if your flagging actually does line up. Sometimes, sometimes not. Adjust accordingly. But that's just me.
Then again, does a deer or any game really give a hoot about your dumb ole' flagging. Except maybe to look at it and perhaps eat it.
cheers 😛
Keep us posted on the show.
10 acres doesn't seem like much for safely hunting?
Well, the show continued after almost a month that no one posted.... Here is an excerpt from a reply today... I seriously choked on my lunch...
Not even surveyors know exactly where a property line is. Get two different surveyors and you can end up with two different line.
If you are lucky enough to know where the corners of your property are located, then go to each corner and then mark them with your gps. Now you can stand at one corner and use a goto function and have the gps draw a line from the corner where you are standing to the corner that you want to go to. As you go to the corner your gps will indicate which side of the direct line you are standing on.
If you don't understand what I am saying pm me and I will try to explain it better.
> Well, the show continued after almost a month that no one posted.... Here is an excerpt from a reply today... I seriously choked on my lunch...
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> Not even surveyors know exactly where a property line is. Get two different surveyors and you can end up with two different line.
Unfortunately that is right on the money.
