Geeks and Hunters, a Match Made in.....Wah?
3/26/2010
In the traditional hunting world hi-tech gadgets and text messaging are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. But, as some old man once said, times they are a' changing. My hunting buddies can often be spied texting, checking e-mail and surfing the Web in their stands to pass the time. I've even used my Blackberry's mobile GPS to find my way out of a few rough spots in the mountains.
Enter the boys at HuntGeek.com. They've hit the Web with this mission statement: Be nice to geeks-one day you'll be hunting with one. Or at least like one, when the tech wizards over at HuntGeek.com have their way.
And it goes on....
After years of prowling the heartland for game (and waiting for the Matrix prophecies to come true) the whiz kids at HuntGeek.com realized no other company has positioned itself to tackle iPhone or mobile device apps for the hunting market. While you were in your tree stand grunting and rattling, the geek gurus from HuntGeek.com were over in theirs writing computer code in their camouflage lab coats, calculating how to bring home more venison by hunting smarter, not just harder.
Check out the first two mobile innovations these fish-out-of-water dudes have come up with, and make sure when you call them geeks, you mean it.
SHOOTING HOURS: Stop watching your watch and keep your eyes on the sky. Shooting Hours calculates to the minute when you can legally shoot according to legal light in your area, sending a thrilling vibration ring from your phone to your freezing nethers that says “game on.” (And hey, it will eliminate that geeky fear of the dark because you know when it’s time to leave your blind or stand!)
COMING SOON: A groundbreaking (and marking) new GPS-oriented app under development will mark trails, rublines and scrapes to take the guesswork out of chasing whitetails by exploiting GPS technology, while neutralizing every geek’s fear of getting lost.
