On X Hunt App

[virgil]

I just downloaded On X.  I'm not finding a lot of help in the app as far as how to use it.  Anyone have experience with it?  Do you find it useful?

[mowin]

16 minutes ago, virgil said:

I just downloaded On X.  I'm not finding a lot of help in the app as far as how to use it.  Anyone have experience with it?  Do you find it useful?

I prefer onx to the other apps. 

It's so much easier to use and navigate then the others. 

What specific information are you looking for?

Edited September 27, 2024 by mowin

[mowin]

To start, the little steering wheel looking thing on bottom right will center the map in your location. 

[2BuckBizCT]

I love ONX. I've had the 50-state package for many years. I use it a ton to cold call/email property owners. I also used it when looking for houses to buy. It came in handy when I shot my CT buck last year and couldn't get it out of the woods the direction I wanted. I was able to see an old logging road on ONX. I then walked that without the deer and found a spot for @crappyice to park and walk back with me. Without ONX it would have been a guessing game. I use the measuring tools too. I use it both on my phone and on actual computer.

[virgil]

50 minutes ago, mowin said:

I prefer onx to the other apps. 

It's so much easier to use and navigate then the others. 

What specific information are you looking for?

I downloaded it because one of my neighbors at my place upstate has offered permission for me and my buddies to duck hunt on a bunch of different properties that he owns and farms.  I don't expect him to drive us around showing us the properties.  He said he uses On X and that it would be a good way for him to show me the parcels and then let us go check them out ourselves.  So, i guess that's my primary reason for downloading it.  But, it looks like there's so much more it can be used for.  Since i have it, i'd like to learn how to make it useful- and i'm really not a very tech savvy person.

[mowin]

1 minute ago, virgil said:

I downloaded it because one of my neighbors at my place upstate has offered permission for me and my buddies to duck hunt on a bunch of different properties that he owns and farms.  I don't expect him to drive us around showing us the properties.  He said he uses On X and that it would be a good way for him to show me the parcels and then let us go check them out ourselves.  So, i guess that's my primary reason for downloading it.  But, it looks like there's so much more it can be used for.  Since i have it, i'd like to learn how to make it useful- and i'm really not a very tech savvy person.

There's definitely a lot to learn if you decide you need to. 

I do the basics.  I use the tools to measure from A to B, or to get the size of a food plot or field.  I don't find the wind direction on be that great.  It's biggest feature is lot lines.  Keeps you on the property you have permission to hunt. 

If trailing a deer, I can drop pins to get a general direction it's traveling, or to find last blood again. 

[virgil]

8 minutes ago, mowin said:

There's definitely a lot to learn if you decide you need to. 

I do the basics.  I use the tools to measure from A to B, or to get the size of a food plot or field.  I don't find the wind direction on be that great.  It's biggest feature is lot lines.  Keeps you on the property you have permission to hunt. 

If trailing a deer, I can drop pins to get a general direction it's traveling, or to find last blood again. 

OK, great.  Yes, sounds like a lot to learn.  But, definitely sounds like it'll be useful.  In order to use it in the woods, do you need good reception?

[Caeden4]

its got a ton of features and takes some messing around with the get the hang of them all. but if you go on youtube, they have videos a couple minutes long on how to use certain features, and then also some videos in collaboration with THP that are much longer and will walk you through how to use a combination of features for a specific type of hunt. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9hrSBHB1WDeFcjRK8g5C8g 

i am not good with the smartphone, so i found it easier to learn by messing around with the web based version (same login). the different buttons are sometimes in different places than they appear on the app, but you can see a lot more of them at once which helped me get used to what each does. then it was just a matter of locating those same functions in the phone app, which is easy if you watch those quick videos since most of them use the app to show you how to use the functions.  

i will say though, the terrain x is one feature i still cannot seem to figure out, and thats when it decides to actually work. but its new and still a work in progress

just make sure to always save your maps as offline maps before you leave wifi. if youre like me and do not have service/internet anywhere you hunt, youre going to want this. all features will continue to work in offline maps, even the gps tracking. i do one zoomed in map of where i expect to hunt, but then also one super zoomed out map so that you can use the entire area if plans change

[mowin]

5 minutes ago, virgil said:

OK, great.  Yes, sounds like a lot to learn.  But, definitely sounds like it'll be useful.  In order to use it in the woods, do you need good reception?

@Caeden4 mentioned the offline maps. Your going to want to learn that feature if the areas you hunt have bad or no cell coverage.  YouTube is a great source. 

[Caeden4]

5 minutes ago, mowin said:

@Caeden4 mentioned the offline maps. Your going to want to learn that feature if the areas you hunt have bad or no cell coverage.  YouTube is a great source. 

the website has a walk through on the offline maps too https://onxmapssupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007554328-Saving-and-managing-Offline-Maps 

i would suggest editing the name though before saving, because i didnt do this at first and it was a huge pain to go through every single "map 3/10/24 . . . . " before i landed on the one i was actually looking for.  also, dont think you need to make the map super localized, you dont. i now save them all in medium detail and zoom out on the screen until the green box is covering more than just the area i plan to hunt. that way i can use the gps function when i get close, and i have all the features at my disposal if my plans end up changing and i hunt a slightly different area nearby. do make sure that before you leave, if you have been adding measurements or pins or anything to the map, that you click update all. that way you dont get to the woods and realize the escouting you did yesterday never saved for offline use.   i like to do my maps on the web version, which then requires you to go to the smartphone app and manually download those maps to the phone for offline use. not a process, just have to remember to do it if you go that route.

[virgil]

Wow.  There's a lot to learn.  Thanks very much for the information.

[Mattypotpie8s]

Just play around with it, you’ll get the hang of things. I like dropping pins on rubs, scrapes, potential climber trees, access spots… anything really. They’ve an icon for just about anything (even Bigfoot). The tracker is great. Just turn it on & it will show your “snail trail” as well as distance traveled. Touch any two spots at the same time and it will give you the distance between the two points. I have 2 of the hunt map layers turned on, acorn producing oaks & wetland, they’re fairly accurate.

[The_Real_TCIII]

I switched to HuntStand and it SUCKS. Going back to Onx

[broomeguy]

Remember boundary lines are not always accurate. Use your best judgment.

[mowin]

18 minutes ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

I switched to HuntStand and it SUCKS. Going back to Onx

Same. Used huntstand for a yr. Hated it.