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Hunting Habitat – New Media

Hunter, too, must move with the times.

New Media

Version 1.0

First of all, you need to be able to get up on time: useful app here is Clock (and the Alarm function) and possibly Nightstand, which not only wakes you up but also indicates the weather.

After a quick check on Notes, don’t forget anything (hunting leave, model 9, gift for the Hunting Lord, …)

And then off to the distant Ardennes. Touring Mobilis is here to help you on your way, and above all, congestion-free and faster.

On your way to the hunt, you can check the weather in advance with a number of apps: Weather, Weather Pro, Buienradar.

When distributing posts, you get a special location. At least with Maps you can drive or walk there.

Arriving before dan and dew, of course, you have to check if you are legally allowed to shoot already. You check the sunrise (and evening sunset) with Sunrise & Set‘s app.

No wildlife in sight but a fantastic sunrise or an interesting spider on the high seat, then use Camera to capture it.

While waiting, you can test bird sounds app Twitter to identify the twittering birds around you.

After an hour or two still haven’t seen any wildlife then of course you can surf to hunting.be to read the latest news on the blog, look up info on the site or check the calendar.

You shot anyway, and hit ! After some searching you find the shooting location. You can use Google earth to pinpoint the location later on.

The game has been found and gathered on the tableau. To add lustre to the Hunting Lord’s speech, you can use the Hunting Horn music looked up with Safari or Firefox.

If there is nothing of yours on the tableau, don’t worry, with the Shot Simulator you can perfectly demonstrate why you shot just wide.

Did you fail the tableau, due to being completely lost, only then does this become useful the SAS Survival Guide, complete with mushroom guide (edible and just not), how to make a solar compass and the full Morse code to signal where you are.

Version 2.0

Solunar

Solunar™ Hunting & Fishing Times gives you all the info you need for a successful hunting day. Based on astronomical data from the US Naval Observatory, here you get the optimal planning based on sunrise – sunset, moon phase, moon phases, and weather forecasts. This further processed by Solunar Theory, which is why it also costs 4.99 euros (?).

Primos Hunting Calls

This app gives you replacements for your duck whistle or Fiep. At least for the Ree, the Deer and some more (American) specimens like the Turkey. Doesn’t seem very efficient to us, then again, it costs only 1.99 euros.

Hunting Light & Blood Tracker

Not the regular light on your iPhone, but the Outdoor version – Hunting Light. A green version for Night vision, a blue version to better define green objects in the forest, and a white version, to have … more light. Furthermore, there is also a blood trail finder which, according to the makers of the app, make a blood trail light up better.

SAS Survival Guide

The SAS survival kit with quite a few features:

  • a full book (400 pages, that way you still have something to read if you are lost);
  • 16 videos (are you sure your battery runs out quickly too);
  • photos of edible and non-edible mushrooms;
  • a morse code application;
  • a compass;

Must be the most useful because it costs 5.99 euros.

Bug Spray

This app emits a high-frequency tone that normal people do not hear, but that mosquitoes and other insects apparently do not like so much and thus stay at a distance. But maybe that Ree or Deer will also hear this tone and stay a little further away. So to be used only when you are fishing.
Efficiency is limited, because apparently nobody wants to pay anything for it and is therefore FREE.

Version 3

G4ema

This application G4EMA (for iPhone-awaiting approval and Android) allows you to locate and inventory your shot pieces in the field. Back home, you can transfer everything to Google maps. Useful to show to the farmer or owner where and what control was carried out.

Further instructions on YouTube: Start, Data transfer, …

Zello

Of course, you can still hang a separate Walkie Talkie around your neck, but why not talk to each other using your smartphone that you have with you anyway. Usually you also have earphones and everything works hands-free. Who tries Zello and tells us about his experiences?

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