hey guys luke here with eastmans hunting journals today i want to give you an in-depth review on
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so the far wide app was built for hunters by hunters it's there to help you enhance your
mapping experiences all for free available both on desktop and the app store and google play it
allows you to find trail heads license regulations locations uh all the clicking of your finger
no more sorting through local game and fish websites uh all this stuff is found on here not
only do you have access to online maps and access points you're going to be also included on the far
wide outdoor community being a part of the outdoor far wide community allows you to get access to
tips and tactics on how to hunt western big game from elk to mule deer to
mountain lion bird hunting bison hunting deer hunting it's all there
they have new blog content every week so it assures you that you're going to stay up to date
so you know exactly what you're heading into during the fall so many of you may have never
heard of the app far wide it actually started out just as a mapping just a mapping application that
you can drop a few waypoints look at satellite imagery uh look at the topographical maps
far wide actually saw a need for the outdoor men and women to feel free to post things such as kill
shots trophy photos a giant fish that you caught at a local at a local lake so there's no sensory
on this uh no sensitive content that gets bumped out uh which is pretty cool
so if fridays haven't gotten any better far wide has what's called far wide fridays and
each week on fridays a new series of hunting gear gets published at a discounted price so
things like your sig sauer optics your hornady reloading ammunition
all as a discounted price on friday so having the app you have access to all that just to make sure
you're never going to miss out on an opportunity to get some new gear at discounted price
so i'm going to stop talking we're going to jump in the maps and just kind of give you a firsthand
look at what the maps entail all the things all the app features that they have we'll do it on
desktop and on my mobile device so we just jumped in the far wide app i kind of want to show you
some things that i've been finding that's most useful i'm about to go on a sheet hunt this weekend
and i'm going to drop a few waypoints on some some ridges that i'd like to glass up
i have a friend here in wyoming that drew a once-in-a-lifetime sheep tag so i'm going to do
us a favor and add some waypoints to this map and it actually saves to your phone so you're
not going to your phone and to your laptop to save waypoints it's once you do it on one it'll
save to both which is not really nice so we're going to go up here to it's called add an event
and right here it'll say add a waypoint so we're going to click on that and throw it exactly where you
want you can zoom in so you get a so you get a precise location on exactly where you want a
glass so i'm going to want a glass on this ridge right here and you can add it there and name it
so we'll say glassing point one you can name it whatever you want a little description um and you
can do this in the field too uh which is really cool you can actually save offline maps and still
be able to add waypoints and things like that add little descriptions i saw a sheep in this area i
saw five sheep right here so a neat feature from the far wide app so just walking through these
different features down here you can actually draw a line uh from you know distance to distance if
you're trying to see how far a shot may be from from the bottom next to the creek to the top of
a ridge you can do that you can see it pops up 859 yards probably not going to take a shot that far
unless you have some long-range rifles which i know it's become pretty popular but your choice
and you can cancel save you can type whatever description you want potential shooting
line and click save another feature is draw an area so a lot of you guys are pretty probably
a lot of you guys are probably familiar with this so we're going to start there
and you know just kind of see like a general area of how far sheep might wander from its top
where it's bedded from the top of some cliffs and down to the creek how big of an area you might
want to hunt just about a square mile so if you create an air dry on an area you you can actually
move it around just to see you know how big a ridge to ridge might be use these features to
your advantage uh get creative with them so after you're done uh it'll leave you
with an endnote like if you want to add like this is going to be my saturday trip
and there are things you're going to have to add such as a description to be able to save it
which why wouldn't you want to add more of a description to where you're going all these
events are saved like i said on your desktop and on your mobile device so that's just a
few of the many features that far wide has as far as their mapping ability let's jump into the
cell phone app and i can show you some more features so to get into the map layers on your
mobile device you're going to go over here and hit explore and what that's going to pull up is
all of the different map layers so there is fishing and boating access points uh but for
what we're going to be wanting to do we're going to definitely want to look public land and you
can turn on all these map layers with a click of a button so you turn on off just skim through those
and see which ones you definitely want on they've got public land they've got trails roads parking
if you have a spot you're thinking about going and you want a campsite they have that so it's just a
good another cool feature of the app you can use to your advantage so obviously public hunting
sites hunter management areas and turn that on off uh walk-in hunting areas it's pretty popular here
uh there's it's a lot of checkerboard so it's definitely a map layer you don't want turned on
wildlife habitat management area campsite so like i said those are where you're going to be want to
be camping if you're doing day hunting from a camp u.s water gauges if you're going to be traveling
across a river or creek you're probably going to be wanting to know how much water is so you can
know if you're going to want to bring a pair of hip waders and stash them in the bushes and you
go on your happy way to your hunt get like i said get used to being creative with these map layers
that's kind of what i like to do so an important feature that i know all of you are
going to want to know and learn is the offline mapping stuff so if you're going on to your
your mapping you're going to go to offline maps and click on this button right here
new offline maps and zone in on the sheep hunt that i'm going to be doing this weekend that
clips from that i'm going to be including in on this video so you see all the things that i found
with the far wide app to enhance my hunt this weekend after your offline map is downloaded you
can quick access to it to it says my offline pack one turn it on and you're ready to go
so you go back to the maps my offline map right there and you'll be good to go just make sure when
you're going out if you're not finding your map uh your offline map make sure the tab is turned on
i've had that happen to me before where i forget that oh i saved that offline map but you know
how do i turn it on or i forgot to turn it on so i want to reiterate that the social media feature is
only on the app it's pretty fun to be able to get on an app with a bunch of like-minded men
and women that love the outdoors just as much as i do and be able to share my adventure with them
from the weekend and not have to be censored by worrying about if my post is going to get
taken down because i posted some blood on a gun and whatnot so with the far wide app you're never
going to have that problem so that wraps up my far wide review if you haven't check it out it's free
you're not going to lose out on any cash checking this out there's no seven day free trial you're
going to charge for a credit card it's all free all the blog content all the uh far wide tv um
mapping uh access points you know regulations it's all free free free free free 99 you can't beat it