Fair chase

A FilledTag plan tells you where you can legally park, camp and sit. It does not tell you where an animal is. This page says exactly what goes into a plan and what never does.

In force from 4 October 2026.

What a plan never uses

• No animal locations. No sightings, no scouting reports, no GPS points for any animal or herd, from anyone.
• No cameras. No trail cameras of any kind, transmitting or not.
• No collars or telemetry. No collar data, no tracking data, no agency survey points.
• Nothing live. Nothing in a plan is real-time. A plan made in October is the same plan in November.
• Nothing crowdsourced. One hunter's sightings never go into another hunter's plan.
• No aircraft or drones. We do not fly anything, and we do not use anyone's flights to find animals.

What a plan is built from

Public maps and records, the same ones any hunter can look up:

• Land ownership records, so every pin sits on ground open to public hunting.
• Road and motor vehicle rules, so the parking spot is on a road you may drive.
• Terrain, tree cover, mapped water and public aerial photographs.
• Season dates, license rules and state harvest estimates.
• Published wildlife research on how elk, deer and other game use terrain and cover through the seasons. We read the findings. We do not use any study's animal location data.

From those, a plan describes ground: openings near timber, benches, cover far from roads, the walk between them. It is the homework a careful hunter does with maps before a trip, done for you.

What stays with the hunter

Everything that makes it hunting. Finding the animals, reading the wind, sitting still, deciding whether to shoot, making the shot, the recovery and the pack-out. A plan gets you to a legal starting point with a reason to be there. No plan can promise an animal, and ours never does.

Spreading hunters out

No two hunters are sent to the same ground on the same days. A plan is built for one tag, one party and one set of dates, and we do not publish where anyone's plan sends them.

Your reports

After a hunt we ask whether the parking, the camp and the routes matched the ground, and what was wrong. We use that to fix our maps and rules. Where you saw animals, and where you filled a tag, is never passed to another hunter.

The law is yours to follow

States write their own rules on hunting technology, and they change. You are responsible for knowing and following the regulations where you hunt, including any rule on what information or equipment may be used. If a state's rules do not allow a plan like this, do not use one there. Check land status, closures and regulations yourself before you hunt.

If we get it wrong

If anything in a plan looks like it breaks these commitments, tell us at . We will fix it and tell you what happened.