WOODIE13
HILLBILLY COOT SLUICER
Yeah, the pillbillies would take them all
Welcome Guest!
Flagging Tape
- Thread starter BigBass123
- Start date
How far apart do u place them tied to trees. Did u get 2different colors ?
chrislibby88
Senior Member
Two colors are totally unnecessary and wasteful. I personally wrap and keep the roll going from tree to tree like Christmas lights. Start the ribbon in your truck door. Really helps you find your way.
WOODIE13
HILLBILLY COOT SLUICER
Good tip, that way you can roll it up and reuse
crackerdave
The Cracker
I followed many miles of red flagging tape plowing firebreaks/ four wheeler roads for the Ga.Forestry Commission.
Last edited:
frankwright
Senior Member
When hunting on strange land like if I am invited out of state or to someones land. I use to use wooden clothes pins with a piece of flagging tape and a reflector.
When someone shows me the stand they want me to hunt I mark the trail so I can find it the first morning in the dark.
After the last hunt, I pick them up as I am walking out.
When someone shows me the stand they want me to hunt I mark the trail so I can find it the first morning in the dark.
After the last hunt, I pick them up as I am walking out.
chrislibby88
Senior Member
No, just no. You leave it so others know an expert flagger wuz here. This spot has been flagged, go tie your little plastic bows 100 yards up the road.
Last edited:
Back40hunter
Senior Member
I guess I shouldn’t be in the woods then For whatever reason I wasn’t blessed with any sort of internal gps. I especially struggle when I get south of the mountains. I use a compass and map okay, but it the dark with a flashlight especially on a foggy morning I can struggle to navigate. I’m not taking up for the ones out there trashing WMA’s with flagging tape. I’m just saying we all ain’t blessed with the same built in navigation system
If I left the tape there. Do I leave the truck door or the truck ?
It’s tied off to it.
BigBass123
Senior Member
Depends on if you are parked up hill or down from the spot.
Downhill, I’ll tie off to my truck, then take the door off and use it as a sled to get to my spot. Up hill, I always tie off to my door, leave it, then drive my truck along the tape line.
Big7
The Oracle
Or...
Somthin' GON on around this here flag.
Maybe I ort' to check it out.
AND if I see any that are faded on goober*ment land, I cut them off and properly dispose of them.
U have to cut the flagging tape. That’s sone tuff stuff.
Blackston
Senior Member
You gonna fit right in !!!!
Kev
Senior Member
I’ve witnessed this lack of direction personally. I ease to my stand in the dark with no flagging tape, but then my in-laws decide to show up right at daylight and It goes from peaceful tranquility, to Hartsfield Jackson airport on a holiday. Led light bars and flagging tape everywhere.
BigBass123
Senior Member
I’m not so much knocking the use of someway to get around the woods, so long as it’s picked up. More so folks marking more locations than they could ever hunt and people leaving the tape/bright eyes with no plans to pick them up.
For what it’s worth, the two guys that inspired this post actually did pick up all their tape as far as I could see. So I do commend them on that.
Overall actually I’d say everyone out at Paulding did a pretty good job picking up, I feel when I left two hours ago I didn’t see any tape on the side of the road or any trash. Not sure what that says in general that I’m happy about that rather than it being expected, but normally when I see tape it’ll still be there next season.
Back40hunter
Senior Member
I wished I had the superpower to walk to my stand in the dark with no light. Must be awesome to be able to navigate through the woods like that. I wonder what makes some people able to do it and the rest of us not able to do it. It sure isn’t from a lack of time in the woods. I have been traipsing around in the woods by myself since age 10 or so.
I had good night direction when I was in scouts. For some reason, it has dulled in the 30 years since. I've gotten a bit turned around a few times then ultimately remembered the topomap, realized the road was uphill, etc. and found my way out.
I still carry a magnetic compass and backup light. If phone GPS goes out, I know what general direction I need to bushwhack to get out, and I do remember topo from maps well so I recognize features and can follow the lay of the land well enough to find my way out eventually.
Actually had to go find a guy at the club who got turned around in the dark this weekend..Just my light from the logging road was enough, he wasn't too far in.
I still carry a magnetic compass and backup light. If phone GPS goes out, I know what general direction I need to bushwhack to get out, and I do remember topo from maps well so I recognize features and can follow the lay of the land well enough to find my way out eventually.
Actually had to go find a guy at the club who got turned around in the dark this weekend..Just my light from the logging road was enough, he wasn't too far in.
AliBubba
Senior Member
Someone had post re: biodegradable flagging... we used to use orange paper streamer from party stores...
Last edited:
Silver Britches
Official Sports Forum Birthday Thread Starter
I hate seeing flagging tape left all over the place. To me, it's no different than all the other trash people leave in the woods. I always take it down after it's been there for awhile. You can't even ride around town without seeing piles of trash littering the sides of the roads. People just suck!
