Measure your land

ormondprop

A friend told me about this iphone app today and its very handy, "measure your land" you can measure distances and areas easily on it, very handy for checking the distance of your shots, managed to find out that the last fox i shot was at roughly 308m think he was the furthest i've got so far with my new .243

Also handy for measuring acreages

Jonty

Does it take the difference in elevation into account when calculating distance do you know?

ormondprop

I never even thought of that so i don't know to be honest, its free so i doubt its that sophisticated

valerossi

Local county councils have old land maps to scale too, ask and they might sort you with a photo copy. Handy to mark off what land you have permission and such, a scale ruler will give you an idea of land size too.

garv123

I used Walking apps when I had my Iphone (what a ball of crap they are!!) to measure distances. Just click start and walk to where you want to measure and click stop and the gps will give you the distance.
One mistake i made was run the distance with the phone in my hand and as my hands swung back and forwards the distance read 275yards because it read each movement.
There's plenty of A to B distance calculators on the android market.

Brian5

Man the app is class,always wondered what certain hits I got were in distance,thanks for the post;)

ormondprop

No bother brian, i never heard of it and sickened now i hadn't found it earlier, was trying to find my longest fox kill and had two foxes around the 380m mark with the .204 trying to think of other long ones i've had i can see a whole night being wasted playing with this

garv123

ormondprop wrote: »

No bother brian, i never heard of it and sickened now i hadn't found it earlier, was trying to find my longest fox kill and had two foxes around the 380m mark with the .204 trying to think of other long ones i've had i can see a whole night being wasted playing with this

very handy to measure distances between ditches for people who dont have range finders before taking shots so you've a rough idea in you're head how far away anything might be.

clivej

Anything FREE for an Android phone??

garv123

clivej wrote: »

Anything FREE for an Android phone??

Fields area measure is the android version of the ops one app.
came up when I typed the name in.
Distance calculator is another one.

Brian5

Ha remembering fields and gates where you shot them,it's fair handy now for night time lamping you know where to aim cause you know the distance😃there won't be a fox safe on your side of naynagh😄👍

One shot on kill

I used the nike running app that's good for distance with elevations aswell.

Sean Mullen

I use GPS essentials app on my HTC phone. I find it very good. Its free and easy to use and gives you all you need to know. Has a built in compass too if your phone supports it