HuntingRulebook is written and maintained by a small team. A real person reads every message, usually within two days — faster in the week a season opens.
It helps to say which state and unit you were looking at, which screen you were on, and the model of your phone. Please never send us your stand coordinates — we do not need them to find the problem.
Every season, limit and hour in the app is read off that state's own 2026-27 digest, with the page number kept beside it, and checked against a second independent reading. Mistakes still happen, and states sometimes change a rule mid-season.
The fastest route is Settings → Report an inaccuracy in the app (the gear at the top of any screen). It opens an email with your state, unit and screen already filled in. Add what the digest says — the page number is the most useful thing you can send — and we will correct it and reply.
Drop a pin on the map, search an address, or let the app use your location. It works out the state, the county and the hunting unit under that point from the state's own unit boundaries, and every screen — Today, Calendar, Rules — shows only the seasons for that unit. Save several spots and switch between them from the top of the screen.
No. It is a careful reading of each state's published digest, not the digest itself. Always confirm against the official regulations before you hunt; every state screen links to them.
Nothing. This season's release is free, with no account, no advertising and nothing to buy inside it.
All fifty states have their 2026-27 deer seasons transcribed down to the unit. Other game — turkey, elk, bear, waterfowl, upland, small game and more — is covered as the state's season table, with each season's area in the digest's own words. Pick what you hunt from the Calendar or Settings.
Yes, if you save it first. On the map, open the map-sheet menu, choose Saved Maps and then Save this view while you still have signal. When the phone cannot reach a tile, the saved sheet — USGS aerial imagery with the topographic map over it — comes up in its place. The rules, your tags and your spots are on the phone already and need no signal at all.
Only to centre the map on where you are standing, so you can drop a spot without typing an address, and only while the app is open. The app keeps no record of where you have been. You can refuse and search for an address instead.
For the blood-trail camera after a shot: the picture is read on the phone for blood's own colour and anything matching is highlighted. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent anywhere.
Not necessarily. Land shown from a state's own layer is coloured by what that state says about hunting on it. Land from the national PAD-US database is marked “unknown”, because that database does not record hunting access. Check with the managing agency.
On your phone. Your spots, tags and harvest log never leave it, and the app needs no account. Deleting the app deletes them. Usage counts — which screens get opened, never where you hunt — can be switched off under Settings → Usage Measurement. The full detail is on the privacy page.
Make sure the app is up to date in the App Store, then close it fully and open it again. If a map layer is blank, it is usually the state or county server that publishes it being briefly down — try again later. If it persists, write to [email protected].