Deer Hunting Apps
As a hunter we are always looking for ways to improve our safety while increasing the success rate of our hunt. Now with technology in the Wi-Fi arena we have at the touch of a screen the best hunting apps available. These following 6 Apps will aid in; planning a safe hunting trip, increasing your success percentages, tracking your hunting party, and provide survival tactics?
Deer Tactics & Calls
Our #1 App is Deer Tactics & Calls and provides us with the 12 most effective deer vocalizations (Calls & Grunts), along with tips on how and when to use them. A calendar tool, which takes into account the Lunar & Solunar day ratings, along with the Rut stages, will recommend the best calls to use during the season. This App also provides a Deer Score Calculator making the scoring of your deer easy.
Calls & Grunts
These vocalizations include sparring and rattling, doe bleat, doe estrus bleat, doe grunt, breeding bellow, contact call, buck grunt, buck bawl, tending grunt, tending click-grunt, and the snort-wheeze.
The Cost: $1.99
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices.
SAS Survival Guide
Our #2, The Survival & Safety Guide is a must have App that was written by a former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier. The App provides valuable Survival information, which includes;
Included Contents
* 16 videos providing invaluable survival tips
* Photo galleries of edible, medicinal and poisonous plants
* Morse Code signalling device
* 100+ question quiz to test if you’ve got what it takes to survive
* Survival Checklist
* Sun Compass
* Extreme Climate Survival
* Comprehensive First Aid section
The Cost: Free
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices.
ActInNature
#3 is an App that will give you an advantage over other hunters and improve your success rate. How, by providing you with the location of other hunters, giving you navigation capability, and providing mapping. Yes, ActinNature tracks all hunters within a 3 mile radius, as long as they have a device with GPS, map, and camera support on them.
Included Contents
* Map – Hunting zones, POIs (hunters), compass, and weather information.
* Camera – Augmented view with POIs and other hunters.
* Notes – Tags, journal records, tracking, gallery pictures, weapon and ammunition.
* Planning – Sun & Moon phases and weather forecasts.
The Cost: Free
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices.
iSonular
iSolunar is our #4 App. This App uses the Solunar information (Lunar Phase and Moon’s position) from the US Naval Observatory and calculates the peak Hunting and Fishing times.
The Cost: $4.99
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices.
ArcheryPal
#5, Are you looking for a way to improve your accuracy, or know how fast your arrow travels. Well here is the App for you, ArcheryPal. With ArcheryPal you now have a tool that will calculate arrow speed, kinetic energy, and weather your arrows are balanced properly.
Included Contents
* Shooting sessions log
* Graphs on accuracy trends over time and distance.
* Waypoint Navigation, compass, and distance
* Night vision screen (Green vs White)
* 3D Score Tracking
The Cost: $4.99
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices.
Trimble GPS
App #6 provides satellite imagery views, topographic maps, and many other map overlays from Google Earth. For a small additional fee you can also get access to maps with forest service roads and public land boundaries.
Included Contents
* Tracking information
* Mark (waypoints)
* Ballistics calculator.
The Cost: Free
Available: IOS, IPad, IPad Touch, IPhone, and Android devices. .
