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The offline whitetail field manual

Everything the woods
demand. No signal required.

Boneyard Hunting is a complete field guide for white-tailed deer hunters — 214 articles built on real deer science, a blood-trail recovery tracker, a rut almanac, and glove-friendly quick-reference cards. It all works dead in the timber, no bars.

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Rut Almanac Early–Mid Nov · North
Chase — sit all day
Bucks are chasing does hard. Rattle and grunt, and don’t climb down at noon.
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The whole woods, one manual

Eighteen chapters, cover to cover

From first-sit basics to land management — every article cites its sources and works with the phone in airplane mode.

Getting Started Biology Behavior Habitat Scouting Strategy Weather & Thermals Gear Weapons Public Land Shot Placement & Recovery Field Care Cooking Aging & Scoring Land Management Disease & Health Safety Regulations
Not just reading — working tools

Instruments for the moment of truth

Boneyard isn't a stack of articles you'll never open. It's built for the seconds after the shot, and the hours on stand before it.

The Blood Trail Tracker

When the shot's off, the clock starts.

Log the hit and Boneyard starts an on-screen recovery clock keyed to the wait time that hit actually calls for — and it survives an app kill. Drop GPS blood markers as you go, and a live compass walks you back to the last sign. No cell signal, satellites only.

◷ Wait-time by hit ◉ GPS blood markers ➤ Walk-back compass ◍ Survives app-kill
Rut Almanac

Time the woods

A calendar-based rut-phase gauge for northern timing — pre-rut, seek, chase, peak, post, and the second rut — so you know whether it's an all-day sit or a midday nap.

Shot Placement

Aim small, pass clean

An interactive whitetail anatomy plate with peelable vitals, skeleton, and aim overlays — plus by-angle verdicts that tell you honestly when to pass the shot.

Regional Guide

Nine ranges, real tactics

Great Lakes, Corn Belt, Upper South, Deep South, Great Plains, Northeast, Southeast Atlantic, the Mountain West, and the desert Southwest (Coues country) — tactics grounded in local biology and habitat, not campfire anecdote.

Glove-Friendly Quick Reference

Twenty cards for cold hands

Shot-placement chart, go/no-go decision, blood-color guide, wait-times by hit, wind & thermals, rut calendar, deer calls, field-judging, mast calendar, field-dressing steps, and CWD safe handling — big type, big targets, one thumb.

Setup Planner

Map your ground, read the wind

Plot your property on a blank field: draw and bend your treelines, trace water and food, drop your stand, and mark other hunters and deer sightings — then watch how the wind carries your scent across the whole setup. Save it, and those stands feed the wind-vs-stand check below.

Field Tools

Seven tools built for the stand

Girth-to-weight yield estimator, rough B&C score range, body-cue age estimator, a wind-vs-stand check against your saved setups, a GPS-based legal shooting-hours countdown, a photo-tagged trail-cam log, and a Season Stats dashboard that tallies your logged hunts, recoveries, and cam sightings — all working offline, right on your phone.

Try a piece of it

Read the hit. Start the clock.

This is the call Boneyard walks you through the moment after the shot. Tap what you found on the ground.

Recommended wait
Pick the sign
Waiting on you

Choose the blood or sign you found and Boneyard tells you the likely hit, how long to wait, and how to take up the trail. Educational only — the deer, and your judgment, always get the final say.

The thing that sets it apart

Honest about the science.

Every claim in Boneyard is labeled for exactly how much you can trust it. Built on the National Deer Association, USGS, CDC, USDA Forest Service, university deer labs, and peer-reviewed research — and upfront when the science is uncertain.

The "October lull," moon-phase theories, and scent-elimination marketing — covered the way GPS-collar research actually describes them, not the way the magazines sell them.

Peer-Reviewed

Backed by published studyJournal-grade research, cited by source. When the data is solid, we say so plainly.

Field-Observation

Documented in the woodsCollar studies and biologist field notes — strong, but not lab-controlled.

Experience-Based

Hunter's craft, honestly labeledHard-won woodsmanship that works — and we won't dress it up as proven fact.

Built for the stand, not the couch

Made for the last hour of light

100% offline

No internet permission exists in the app. Nothing to load, nothing that fails when the bars drop to zero.

Red night mode

One tap collapses the whole interface to pure red — protect your night vision walking in and climbing down.

Battery-minded

Dark by default and free of background chatter. It sips power, so it's still there at last light on day three.

Glove-friendly

Large type and big touch targets sized for cold, gloved hands. No squinting, no fat-finger misses.

Full-text search

Search every word of all 214 articles instantly — plus a mic button for voice search, offline, on cold mornings.

Your season journal

"The Boneyard" logs your sits, your sign, and your notches — a private season record that never leaves the phone unless you say so: a Season Stats dashboard tallies it, and one-tap export saves it to a file you keep.

One price. No games.

Buy it once. Own it in the stand.

$2.99
One-time · yours forever
  • No subscription. Pay once. It's yours — season after season.
  • No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Google gates the download behind purchase. Nothing else to sign up for.
  • Free content updates land right in the app you already own.
  • Works the day you buy it and the day the signal dies.
Less than a single box of broadheads. Cheaper than the deer you'll recover with it.
Straight answers

Questions from the tailgate

Yes — completely. Boneyard has no internet permission at all. Every article, card, diagram, and tool lives on your phone. The only thing that touches the sky is GPS for blood markers, and that's satellites, not cell towers.
No. It's a one-time purchase on Google Play. You pay once and own it — no monthly fee, no login, no "premium tier." Future content updates come free to the app you already bought.
That's the whole point of Boneyard. Every claim carries a label — peer-reviewed, field-observation, or experience-based — and cites its source, drawn from the National Deer Association, USGS, CDC, USDA Forest Service, university deer labs, and published research. Where the science is genuinely uncertain, we say so instead of guessing.
Never. Seasons, zones, and CWD rules change every year and vary by state. Boneyard teaches you how to read and verify them and always points you to your state wildlife agency (DNR) for the current, official rules. Nothing in the app replaces the law book.
Boneyard launches first on Android via Google Play. It's built to run offline on phones you'd actually carry into the woods.
None of it. No account, no analytics, no ad networks, no data leaves your device — your journal, bookmarks, and recovery logs stay on your phone. There's literally no network connection for them to travel over. And your data is yours: a one-tap export in Settings saves your season's logs to a file you keep, so a lost phone never costs you a season.
The field manual that lives in your pocket

Scout smarter. Shoot straighter. Recover more deer.

Boneyard Hunting rides in your pocket and never asks for a signal. Get on the list before the opener.

◗ Launching on Google Play · one-time purchase · no ads, ever