Yes knowing where the sand roads or blacktop for that matter is good for "Baselining" You can aim off purposely so that when you hit your baseline you know weather to turn left or right to get back to your car.You can use a swamp the same way but you know them Barrens.Sometimes the roads and the swamps start looking alike Also a swamp edge is not all that apparent if the woods ever so gradually drop and turn into swamp.
Does the head net ever really help? By the time I"ve hit the bees it's to late to reach for the net.Thats why I hate yellowjackets.You can't see the nests and don't know their there till you step on em.If you run your face into a bald faced hornets nest well you shoulda been paying attention.I almost did that once climbing a tree.I was six feet under the nest before I heard them and looked up. I always hit yellowjackets when it's warm out and always just have a t-shirt on and they go right through that.I hit them a lot in swamps,they seem to like to build their nests under damp sphagnum.I am always scared in summer in cedar swamps now.Don't keep me out of em but I"m on hair trigger unless the swamps flooded which seems to kill em. I have bear spray at the house but it's for Momma when I"m workin nights.Been a rash of burglaries around here lately.God help the burglar that breaks in when I"m not home to keep her from killing him.Spray isn't all she has
Does the head net ever really help? By the time I"ve hit the bees it's to late to reach for the net.Thats why I hate yellowjackets.You can't see the nests and don't know their there till you step on em.If you run your face into a bald faced hornets nest well you shoulda been paying attention.I almost did that once climbing a tree.I was six feet under the nest before I heard them and looked up. I always hit yellowjackets when it's warm out and always just have a t-shirt on and they go right through that.I hit them a lot in swamps,they seem to like to build their nests under damp sphagnum.I am always scared in summer in cedar swamps now.Don't keep me out of em but I"m on hair trigger unless the swamps flooded which seems to kill em. I have bear spray at the house but it's for Momma when I"m workin nights.Been a rash of burglaries around here lately.God help the burglar that breaks in when I"m not home to keep her from killing him.Spray isn't all she has