Title: Analyzing terrain aspect and slope for better hunting areas

Sub: How Brady uses old data to find better buck areas

By: Brady Miller

Alright… what I’m about to talk about is one of my single favorite features we have launched to GOHUNT Maps. REAL 3D on the web and mobile was a HUGE launch and this feature directly complements our suite of research and in-the-field tools.

That new tool is our Terrain Analysis.

This is hands down a tool I have been using most for so many years doing the painful process of making my own custom layers. I’m happy to say that GOHUNT has this extremely powerful tool!

What is the Terrain Analysis tool?

Terrain Analysis allows you to see the aspect of the mountain and the slope.

Aspect: What direction the mountains, ridge, hill, etc is facing in a North, South, East, West and a combination of the other

Slope: Degrees of steepness in the terrain

Terrain analysis tool

Use data from previous hunts to help you hone in on new areas. Or find better spots in the unit you hunt that could hold big deer.

Take a look at where you've killed bucks before.

Get a solid idea and pattern of where bucks you've taken.

Turn on the terrain analysis tool and play around with the aspect layers. Take note of trends in the data.

Put all my buck kills into one collection.

I've analyzed 20 recent mule deer kills and I've killed bucks BLANK% of the time on East facing slopes in October.

In November it's blank% of SE facing slopes.

What slope degree most of my kills have been on.

Terrain tool for applying for hunts

Terrain tool once you’ve drawn a tag