Got to agree with Joe on this issue of remembering outlines/picking
differences. I could spot game faster than any of my friends when
hunting on my place even when they had a lot better eyesight - because
*I knew what that paddock looked like* - every stump, tree & rock. Any
new object was an animal and then it was just a matter of determining
if it could be shot or not.

PDW

In article , Joe
wrote:

"Donal"

Let me see if I can splain this to ya Lanod were you might understand.

Look at the back of your hand. Do you know what it looks like?
Now take a red marker and put a dot on the back of your hand.
Now if you look at your hand again and there is a red dot on it will
you know that the back of your hand looks diffrent?

Same as a radar picture of a familiar channel, river, ect... that has
a new red dot on it, you can assume that is something like a boat in
the fog so you try to talk to them and make passing agreements, if
they do not talk you creep up and very carefully go around them.

Now if you see Capt Neals hand and it has a dot on the back are you
going to know if it was there before? Now if you do not ask him you
will never know.

Same thing you can do following a local, you can get on the radio and
ask is that dot I see on radar suppose to be there. Most likey he will
know. Thats because he has seen that picture a hundred times. He is
familiar with it and you are not. OK.....understand?

You may not understand how to maintain a proper watch by radar and
radio. But it can be done very safely, with local knowledge and an
understanding of the limits and abilitys of the tools you use.

Joe