Dove season opened last week and if you've hunted them you know they can be hard to find once they hit the ground (sometimes even with a dog).
I got to thinking about it, and it's not so bad if somebody else watches it go down and can direct you. They don't lose their reference so they have a better handle on where it's at.
My idea is this:
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set up a hotkey for sight 'n' go
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shoot the bird and watch it go down
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keeping your eyes on where it fell, enable sight 'n' go and point watch in that direction
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navigate to that area
It allows you to keep a decent line on where you should be looking. Since these birds aren't that far out to begin with, the angular error shouldn't be a huge deal.
This principle can be easily extended to other types of hunting as well. Been scratching my head ever since I got this watch trying to figure out what exactly this too could be used for and it seems like it's pretty well suited to retrieving quarry when out hunting.
