Iphone apps for hunting

I was just curious if anyone uses any apps with the iphone or any phone that is beneficial to your hunt?
I seen an app that will use your iphone as a range finder. Is it accurate and reliable to use?
I did watch a cool video of a bracket to hold your iphone on your bow to film your shot.
But anyone ever used any accessorie like this?

 

Be Careful

Be Careful and check your State and Local laws about using electronic sighting or yardage measuring devices that mount to your bow.Here in the State of Florida they are illegal to use when hunting deer.

 

Welcome to the site rodney

Here are all the apps I use for hunting:

Google Earth- scouting and such
Hunting Calendar Lite- moon phase, peak lunar times, sunrise/set
Motion-X GPS- gps & geotagging images
Ustream - allows me to broadcast live video from the woods
AirStash app & Card reader - allows me to swap my trail cam cards and view them on my phone in the woods

I also got an X-shot case for my phone for hunting. It has a buit in camera nut, so I can mount it to my bow with a bow mount from Insane Archery.



and here's my case with some camo on it

 

I also got the Shot Simulator App from Deer & Deer Hunting. It's a pretty cool app to play with, plus it's nice that you can recreate your shot in it and look at the vitals that you hit

 

Thanks alot Fitz. I am totally going to check out that ustream app. I wanna get some live action type shots and video from my hunts. But cant exactly afford cameras and stuff like that. So using a mount for a smart phone just seems like an economical idea. Thanks for the post!
Hey GDLT31 thanks for the reply. I have alot of friends who use the vendetta range finder mounted to their bow and have been told things are all good legally speaking.

 

How did you attach that thing to the phone? clamp? You got any videos to share, looks interesting :D

 

Fitz, how does the air stash app work? Do you need anything else beside your iPhone?

 

Karl,

Here a link for the X-Shot case ---> X-Shot




And here's Insane Archery's Mount ---> IA Mount

 

Countryboy,

Yes, you need the Airstash card reader. I found them when I was looking at getting a reader like the one Cuddy makes. This was a cheaper, and way more useful option since I had the iPhone. As with all electronics I buy, they came out with a new version less than 6 mo. after I bought it

Here's a link to Airstash's site ---> AirStash

Older version on the left, new on the right



Swap cards out of your camera. Insert card. turn on Airstash. Throw in pocket of pack. View images on phone. Save the ones you'd like directly on your phone.

I'll note that Quicktime doesn't read all video formats, so I can't view videos from my Trophy cams on the phone, but the images are all good

 

Don't forget the Tapatalk App either, so you can view & post to the BH.com forums from the woods

 

Thanks fritz, how much was the card reader?

 

$90 i think.

 

I just checked on amazon and they are 149. I think I will just keep checking my camera with my digital camera instead.

 

I guess the new version is more expensive. The old one was 90-99 depending on where you looked.

I'd hesitate at that price too (unless you travel a lot, you can save movies to the AS and stream them to your phone, even on an airplane)

 

This may be a stupid question, but does this include the Leupold Vendetta?