hey guys Scott Reekers here with Eastmans' hunting journals and I want to tell you about a
cool announcement that we have with the MRS information it is now inside the
Basemap app if you remember last summer I did a review of Basemap and I talked
about a lot of the the features that it had a lot of the cool things that you
can do with that app I use this scouting for mule deer now here's the next step
of what you can do with that you can use the app to find our blue chip green chip
or yellow marginal unit and you can see our recommendation our rating you can
find out how many points are required to draw that unit and this is part of the
base map app so let's dig in and let's see how you can find our layer inside
their app and then I want to show you a couple of cool tricks that I've already
found using this feature also there's mobile friendly so it's very easy to
look this up on your phone so you can research in the field say you're hunting
deer and you see a big bull out find out how many points it takes to draw that
unit and depending on the state whether it's actually a good unit see if it was
a fluke and see if it's worth burning your points on so the first thing that's
going to happen here is you're gonna open this up at base map calm go into
the map and you'll see over here on the left we have our layers tap open up the
layers and open up the hunting layer and you will see right here Eastmans'
hunting or research go in here and let's just let's just move this map around
since I'm a mule deer guy we're gonna turn on the mule deer layer the limited
entry mule deer layer inside Utah there you go you can see our blue chip
recommendations inside the state of Utah you can see our green and this is the
limited entry so these are hard to drop inside the state of Utah so let's just
go with let's look at Wasatch Mountains I can click on this and it opens up
tells you what state you're in slide over and guess what
you can see our information there you can see that there's Wasatch Mountains
this is a b-level unit green chip I'm sliding over you can see we've got all
our data right here so trophy quality B this is for if you
want to do an archery hunt and non-resident your season dates are
August 15th to September 11th then you can see there's all sorts of information
here so how many resident number of draw and random in 2019 125 people randomly
were drawn for this scroll down and there's all sorts of data points that we
can go through the access a little bit tougher but overall get some B score so
you can see how this this works with all of our data and so then you can close
this and say hmm let's go look at something different here let's go look
at the Southwest desert you know what's an a unit look like what's a blue-chip
unit look like so moving over here you can see it gives you the rating again
then start scrolling through trophy forecast is excellent see how tough it
is to draw not many tags there that's why it's a blue-chip resident random
odds are at eight point one tough unit to draw so you can see how powerful all
this information is it is very useable to develop a strategy for where you want
to apply in your home state or in state so you don't live in now I'm going to
turn off the Utah layer and I'm gonna scroll to Wyoming here and we are going
to go to let's just use Wyoming moose as an example we'll turn that on and move
up here to Wyoming now for most of you who are non residents of the state of
Wyoming one of the things that is always a challenge is how do I hunt or how do I
find places to hunt that aren't inside the wilderness area get out of the east
moose hunting research go back to land and you can see nationwide designated
wilderness now you have an overlay that shows you all of these units here are
going to be tough as a non-resident to hunt you can see up here that if you're
sitting on a boatload of moose points these are not in the areas where you're
going to want to apply and so taking a look sitting on a boatload of points you
can see guys recommendation that this unit here would be a great place to take
a look at now moving through all this into the data and you can see the number
of permits resident number drawn all of these things the Train difficulty three
out of five and so make sure that you check out the MRS layer inside the Basemap
app it's available for $9.99 you do not have to have a pro membership to buy
this layer so you can get the base map app and add this and you have access to
all of these pieces