Hand Held Gps

I looking for a new hand Held GPS. what is you guys opinion on the most accurate Hand Held GPS on the market? Nothing fancy just accurate
thanks

I haven't used all of the of course but, I have found the Garmin Etrex Vista CX to be a great little unit. Example being, on my local lake there is a stump pile that I fish. Normally there is a 8 - 12 inch piece of it above the surface of the water that I use to locate it. A few weeks ago the water started rising and when I went to find it it wasn't visable. I remembered that I had stored it in my GPS and set a route to it. I pulled it up and it got me within 10 feet of it. I was impressed. Good luck on your search.

I too have only the Garmins, have a couple of the older models, GPS 72 and 76, and they get me to my spots pretty close, no trouble finding the stumps etc with my DF. I had a older Lowrance from before WAAP and I do believe the Garmins are more user friendly.

I just got this one thru the mail yesterday. Now I just gotta learn how to use it. :D Seems a few folks on these boards uses this one. I think the price is low for this unit, cheapest I could find anyway. This is a brand new GPS, not refurbished.

http://www.edgegps.com/eCart/viewIte...?idProduct=113

i am thinking of getting one. any more ideas about choices? thanks rex

I have 2, both Lowrance and they both will normally put me right on top of a brush pile. The portable is a H2O. I had a color H2O but sent it back as the screen was too hard to see in bright sun light.

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Originally Posted by Crappisaurusrex

i am thinking of getting one. any more ideas about choices? thanks rex

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I like my Garmin Etrex Legend, not in color but I can download my coordinates onto it, and has waas built in. My next etrex will have a built in compass with it.

I am as computer literate as my stray cat that took up out back.I have the I finder H2O and a lowrance I way for the truck and aint got the foggest idea of how to load one of them sd cards with what I want on it..Oh,I also have the Mapcreate stuff too,two different ones..This stuff is confuseing considering the only computer I ever worked with was one that took up a whole warehouse room and had 71/2 inch tape reels on it..Any instructors out there????ss

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Originally Posted by sentrysam

I am as computer literate as my stray cat that took up out back.I have the I finder H2O and a lowrance I way for the truck and aint got the foggest idea of how to load one of them sd cards with what I want on it..Oh,I also have the Mapcreate stuff too,two different ones..This stuff is confuseing considering the only computer I ever worked with was one that took up a whole warehouse room and had 71/2 inch tape reels on it..Any instructors out there????ss

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The SD card goes under the batteries. As for map Create, the best thing to do is load it and start playing with it. I loaded all of SE US on a 512 meg SD card from Map Create and still have loads of memory left. Just remember when using a SD card with Map Create you are limited to 5 cards you can register with it. At least that is with the 6.3 version. Don't know about the new one.

Well,I appreciate the info there Chief or master chief or senior chief(litterraly)I was Navy also ,6 years,,but I still am at odds witht this damn thing,sometimes a sign comes up and says my mmc reader writter from Lowrance in not completely installed ,now how in hech can you just halfass install something?????duh???I have two of these map create things,one was for the Iway and the other I purchased from lowrance or cabela's and has 6 shinny disc's with it some say south ,some say north,east ,west,etc,...Now how do I go about takeing the dern map I want off of mapcreate and put into my Iway so I can't get lost anymore or less...?I'm fix'n to donate these things to file 13...ss