Aside from the opening day of hunting season, pre-season scouting is one of the most exciting times of the year. You’ve learned from last year’s mistakes, and anticipation for the new season is at its peak. Maybe you’re looking to find new hunting grounds, explore different properties, or identify the best days to hunt. It can be tough to know if you’re focusing on the right information, but Moultrie’s Hunt Planning+ upgrade will deliver this valuable intel right into your hands.

Few things can influence success or failure more quickly than wind direction. When the wind is right, deer will funnel past your stand if you plan accordingly. But the wrong wind can turn a pleasant afternoon of deer watching into a frustrating game of listening to squirrels imitate deer walking through the leaves.

Usually, when a hunter finds a good spot for a stand, they mentally figure out wind directions and choose the best ones for that location based on where deer bed and feed. This approach works well, but each time you go hunting, you need to consider which winds suit each stand. With Hunt Planning+, you can pin all your stand locations on the Moultrie map and set the ideal wind directions for each. Once you save the perfect wind, you can quickly scan the map to see which stands have favorable winds. If a stand is green, go hunt. If it’s red, skip it.

Knowing which stand to hunt is just one factor. What if you also knew exactly when deer move in your hunting area? Moultrie’s Game Plan does just that. It is the only predictive deer movement tool that analyzes recent movements using your Moultrie cameras and any other Moultrie cameras in your area.

Moultrie’s advanced predictive model collects anonymous data from all nearby Moultrie cameras, combining it with weather patterns and other factors that influence deer behavior to deliver the most accurate forecast available. The Game Plan feature provides 24-hour, three-day, and nine-day forecasts of local deer movement, helping you plan for peak activity. It even shows you when peak buck movement occurred in past years.

Unlocking the property boundaries feature in the Moultrie map is a game-changer when trying to see where you have permission to hunt or not. It also shows all the plot information so you can contact a landowner for permission to hunt or retrieve a deer that has been shot. This is a great tool when driving down the road and seeing a big buck in a field. With the property boundaries turned on, you can quickly find the landowner’s info and ask for permission.

If you’re an urban backyard hunter, you probably don’t care about buck-to-doe ratios or fawn recruitment. But if you own land, hunt on a lease, or have long-term access to a property where you aim to improve the quality of the deer herd, then this information is essential. Moultrie’s new Deer Survey feature can help.

What used to take a lot of time, effort, and money if outsourced no longer does. You can now perform professional trail camera surveys using your Moultrie cameras and app. Moultrie’s advanced AI system will count does, bucks, and fawns and automatically organize the data so you can see the buck-to-doe ratio and fawn recruitment on your hunting land. This level of detail helps you stop guessing and make informed decisions about how many does and bucks to harvest.

These pre-season surveys will help guide you on how many does you need to harvest to reach your desired goals. After the season, you can conduct a post-season survey to see if your doe-harvest goals achieved the intended outcome. Never have hunters had more control over their management objectives with professional tools available at such a low cost and with such ease of use.

The time to pay attention to details is now. Don’t miss out on the most essential information of the season, get Hunt Planning+ today.