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Author Topic: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?  (Read 119 times)

Online Fallguy

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Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« on: January 16, 2025, 05:43:01 PM »
I am looking for information from anyone with first hand experience with the system.
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Online Rob Emerson

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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2025, 07:59:47 PM »
I have the OnX app on my phone.  I pay the yearly fee ($99) for access for all 50 states.  Good for using around home to see information on who owns certain properties, and displays property lines which are pretty accurate.  I was also able to use it in remote Alaska on a Moose hunt.  It worked great with my phone in airplane mode, and I was able to mark locations, get distance measurements, direction etc., but I could never find the button to give me the locations of all the legal bulls in the area :)  It depends on what you would be using it for, and expect it to do.

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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2025, 08:25:52 PM »
I have the cheap version and use it all the time. The property owner info is invaluable just by itself.
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Online Trenton G.

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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2025, 08:28:04 PM »
OnX is worth the money, regardless of whether you are just buying one state or all 50. It has been worth its weight in gold on out of state trips, as well as hunting around home. It has helped me plan routes, find new properties, and even helped me out once when a landowner was disputing that I had shot a deer on his property. Showed him the map, where I was, the track that I had walked, and now we're on great terms. Like Rob has already listed, there are a ton of useful features.

Online Ryan Rothhaar

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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2025, 09:32:41 PM »
It’s best when your hunting buddy has it and you can bug the heck out of him making him get his phone out of his pocket every 10 min to look at the map!  😆

It’s pretty cool but I like to maintain my lack of smart phone savvy, so I depend on my IT guy.

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Online Terry Green

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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 08:19:30 AM »
It’s best when your hunting buddy has it and you can bug the heck out of him making him get his phone out of his pocket every 10 min to look at the map!  😆

It’s pretty cool but I like to maintain my lack of smart phone savvy, so I depend on my IT guy.

R

Same Here.... GPS sure is great when you are in a new area, such as a TX ranch, just to navigate what roads you want to go down of the so many there are at times.

I never owned a GPS for the same reason Ryan state.
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Re: Onyx Hunting Map system, is it as good as advertised?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 08:45:36 AM »
I should as to that last sentence......

Till one showed up on my phone.  :goldtooth:
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