OK, here's the deal I would appreciate any information regarding experience with any and all GPS units. I am currently looking into a Garmin, but want other opinions prior to committing.

THANKS,
J~

I have the Garmin Rhino 520. I love it. The peer positioning feature that allows you to locate other Rhino units is a valuable tool for safety when you get old. "OLD" who said that. You can actually pole someone elses unit even if they are incapacitated and locate them if it is turned on.

I had one of the first models of the Garmin 76S it told you where you were and was a moving map, which I think was an extremely important feature. My friend had a regular GPS without the moving map and it wasn't as useful or easy to understand. Mine was small and light enough to be easily carried in my front shirt pocket. It worked well except it was an early model and only held 8MB of data. Translated into usable terms meant that if I was going to drive to LA from Phoenix I had better not plan on any side trips. It barely held the southern Arizona and California highway maps. Garmin would not upgrade mine to hold more memory. I sold mine to a hunting buddy that only wanted the topographical maps. I will not buy another until the memories are in the 16-20GB range.
Mine worked fine otherwise, the screen was a little small but then so was the entire unit. The batteries two AA's would only last 4 or 5 hours so I always carried a pack of batteries too. It was interesting to see the path you take while out hunting. More often than not that path looked like a drunken sailor going bar to bar. It sure saved me a lot of walking when the day was done and it was time to head back to camp. Before the GPS I would more or less backtrack, after I got the GPS I could walk straight to camp from where ever I ended up. Yes, even after GPS I always carry a map and a couple of compasses too, but they mostly just stay in the pack.