 RE: GPS Failure Horror Stories
A group of buddies and myself go to Saskatchewan, Canada duck and goose hunting every year. We use a garmin III handheld in the truck to mark fields loaded with ducks and geese in the p.m. The next morning we ride back to the field and set up our decoy spread. I am usually the navagator. One morning my buddy sits up front and turns on the GPS and begins navagating. It is very dark in Saskatchewan in the mornings. He navagates us to the field that we had located the previous afternoon(we thought) We get in the middle of the field and set our decoy spread and I drive the truck to a treeline and park it. Things are looking different and I was thinking we were in the wrong spot. The shooting was amazing. We were doing very well, lots of ducks and geese are falling victim to our spread.We had over 1000 geese decoy to us at once at one point!!! @ 9:30am here comes the Canadian Game Warden w/ a farmer. We were in fact in the wrong spot.....we were in a Canadian waterfowl santuary. You are not allowed to hunt within 1000yds of some major major lakes and we within 500yds!!! We could not see the lake from where we were due to the trees.The field we had marked was over 1 mile from the lake. The warden was sooo nice and asked us to leave and did not write us a ticket, but could have sent us back to the states(literally). We get back in the truck and look the GPS and sure enough we are a 1/2 inch from the way point, but my buddy says "ain't that close enough"!!!!! He has sat in the backseat the last 4 years and has never complained..... | 
