Spartan Forge: Hunt

This is the feature Spartan Forge hangs its hat on. It runs a neural network trained on GPS collar data from university research to estimate whitetail movement based on weather and terrain in your area. You check it before a sit. That tells you whether a spot is worth the walk. The company claims it's the only hunting app predicting deer movement this way.

LiDAR lets you see through tree canopy and pick out subtle terrain features that a standard aerial photo hides. The UAV imagery runs at 15cm resolution, sharp enough to spot fence lines and small cover changes. LiDAR coverage sits at roughly 66% of the Lower 48. Check your state before you count on it.

You can flip back through 3 to 10 years of aerial imagery across about 60% of the U.S. That matters when you're trying to figure out why deer use a certain fencerow. Cover changes. Crops rotate. Water moves. A single snapshot can't show any of that.

Borrowed from military targeting, this lets you draw a boundary on the map and invite hunting buddies into the group. Any pin dropped inside that polygon gets shared with the team automatically. It's a clean way to run a drive. No group texts flying around.

The map shows public and private property lines and ownership, so you know exactly where a parcel ends. That's the difference between a legal sit and a trespassing ticket. It matters.

Maps cache to your phone so navigation and pins keep working without cell service. That's normal in good hunting country. An hourly forecast and historical wind data sit right on the map. Wind direction is often the whole ballgame when you're picking a stand.

Eagle Eye gives you a side-profile view of terrain and vegetation. Most apps only show you top-down. Configurable topo maps with 10-foot contour lines and slope angle overlays round out the terrain reading. Split-screen mode on the web compares topo and aerial side by side.