Flagging Tape

[LonePine]

Flagging tape is a tool, just like anything else. I only use it on public quota hunts to mark my entrance to the woods at the road. I'll go the day before the hunt to scout then mark the spot I plan to hunt. Write the date on it with sharpie and then always remove once I'm done with that spot. I don't use climbers and usually drag a portable ladder stand back in the woods so not just easy to move in the dark if someone else is parked there. Normally other hunters respect that system but if they don't its public land and I don't get upset over it.

 

[Deerhead]

Personally I like using the 4" wide reflective tape. Its only $200 a roll

 

[buckmanmike]

I use flagging tape, but only when I'm marking a blood trail of a shot deer, in case darkness makes it impossible to follow. Come back during light, pick right up where you left off and you can see the direction the deer was moving if it rained that night and blood washed away.

 

[chrislibby88]

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.

Good on them. Dont mind those types at all. I’m not a fan of the idiots that tie trash bags to limbs, or put bottles on limbs to mark their way and then leave it there looking like homeless camp decor.

 

[chrislibby88]

Personally I like using the 4" wide reflective tape. Its only $200 a roll

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Oooh. Thrifty. Don’t forget your LED light bar so you can see the tape.

 

[Swamprat]

On public I will put up some flagging for a entry point to a stand site on a road so I can find it in the dark.