Recording your culls.

[Jh1986]

Evening all.

I'm not sure what everyone uses to record their culls, but I thought I'd share my latest efforts.

I use MyHunt to record my grounds and culls, however on the cull record side I prefer the simplicity of a Google spreadsheet. It gives me much greater control over the data, such as breaking it down into gender, species, weights etc...

This brings me on to my next evolution. I got sick of having to fire up the laptop or computer every time. Editing on a phone was painful. Enter AppSheet. A Google app that enables you to turn your spreadsheet into an app.



It may not be for everyone, but I started with a simple spreadsheet and now I've got this. I can view all my culls, view a dashboard with things like species split etc. I can also easily add culls, as well as marking the location on a map. It's free!

Not exactly hard to set up either.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Evening all.

I'm not sure what everyone uses to record their culls, but I thought I'd share my latest efforts.

I use MyHunt to record my grounds and culls, however on the cull record side I prefer the simplicity of a Google spreadsheet. It gives me much greater control over the data, such as breaking it down into gender, species, weights etc...

This brings me on to my next evolution. I got sick of having to fire up the laptop or computer every time. Editing on a phone was painful. Enter AppSheet. A Google app that enables you to turn your spreadsheet into an app.

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It may not be for everyone, but I started with a simple spreadsheet and now I've got this. I can view all my culls, view a dashboard with things like species split etc. I can also easily add culls, as well as marking the location on a map. It's free!

Not exactly hard to set up either.

Gave up recording culls years ago, all my farmers want to see is dead deer not figures on a price of paper

 

[Tim.243]

Evening all.

I'm not sure what everyone uses to record their culls, but I thought I'd share my latest efforts.

I use MyHunt to record my grounds and culls, however on the cull record side I prefer the simplicity of a Google spreadsheet. It gives me much greater control over the data, such as breaking it down into gender, species, weights etc...

This brings me on to my next evolution. I got sick of having to fire up the laptop or computer every time. Editing on a phone was painful. Enter AppSheet. A Google app that enables you to turn your spreadsheet into an app.

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It may not be for everyone, but I started with a simple spreadsheet and now I've got this. I can view all my culls, view a dashboard with things like species split etc. I can also easily add culls, as well as marking the location on a map. It's free!

Not exactly hard to set up either.

If the chiller is full then I have shot a few....

 

[Hayduke]

Notebook, perfectly good and adequate.

 

[Jh1986]

Gave up recording culls years ago, all my farmers want to see is dead deer not figures on a price of paper

If the chiller is full then I have shot a few....

Unfortunately for new stalkers such as myself, it's very much a case of "prove it or lose it" when it comes to the Police and renewals.

 

[VSS]

I just record what goes into the larder, as is required by my EHO. All done traditionally on a piece of paper.

 

[HarryG]

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My stalking partner set this up but it’s both an app and a laptop based system. When you set up your account you decide what fields you need (we use sex, age, location, photo, condition, weight) but you can do anything you like. You could use this for a frog survey, it’s not fussy. When you shoot a deer you can enter the data on your phone - the phone does location and photo really well for e.g. you can leave fields like weight for the larder. When you are done, you upload to the cloud and the app creates a map of all cull data, or you can view as a table. In our case it’s useful for showing the landowner what’s going on, and helps tie in with their other conservation work. I couldn’t rate this enough.

 

[willie_gunn]

I have cull records going back to 1997, all stored in Excel.

As well as being of interest in terms of our efforts over the years, for the forestry grants that the Estate currently receives we need to be able to show details such as:

• Number of outings
• Number of deer (incl species) seen per outing
• Hours spent per outing
• Deer culled, including species, sex, weight, foeti, abnormalities, etc

For the estate I produce a report each year, that summarises the above information. The cull records, outing records and deer management plan are submitted each year to support the grant application and payments.

When out stalking I use the GBWorker App on my iPhone to capture an OS grid reference and photo of each animal culled, which I then email to my Inbox.

 

[willie_gunn]

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five.epicollect.net

My stalking partner set this up but it’s both an app and a laptop based system. When you set up your account you decide what fields you need (we use sex, age, location, photo, condition, weight) but you can do anything you like. You could use this for a frog survey, it’s not fussy. When you shoot a deer you can enter the data on your phone - the phone does location and photo really well for e.g. you can leave fields like weight for the larder. When you are done, you upload to the cloud and the app creates a map of all cull data, or you can view as a table. In our case it’s useful for showing the landowner what’s going on, and helps tie in with their other conservation work. I couldn’t rate this enough.
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That looks excellent.

Out of interest, is it doing the mapping using OS grid references, LatLong or What3Words?

 

[Tim.243]

Unfortunately for new stalkers such as myself, it's very much a case of "prove it or lose it" when it comes to the Police and renewals.

We were all new stalkers at the start, not buying the prove it or lose it part tbh, I opened up my fac by shooting foxes just so happened it had deer on the conditions. There is nothing on my FAC to require me to shoot deer just the conditions that I can shoot them under.
Anyway it looks nice and good luck with it.

 

[HarryG]

That looks excellent.

Out of interest, is it doing the mapping using OS grid references, LatLong or What3Words?

It’s Latlong so is easier done on the phone using its location feature at the shot site, but if I forget I do it at home using google to work it out. I was using a notebook and a map but we moved to this when two of us started stalking this ground. This helps us store the culls centrally. I was skeptical, being a technophobe, but I was wrong.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Evening all.

I'm not sure what everyone uses to record their culls, but I thought I'd share my latest efforts.

I use MyHunt to record my grounds and culls, however on the cull record side I prefer the simplicity of a Google spreadsheet. It gives me much greater control over the data, such as breaking it down into gender, species, weights etc...

This brings me on to my next evolution. I got sick of having to fire up the laptop or computer every time. Editing on a phone was painful. Enter AppSheet. A Google app that enables you to turn your spreadsheet into an app.

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It may not be for everyone, but I started with a simple spreadsheet and now I've got this. I can view all my culls, view a dashboard with things like species split etc. I can also easily add culls, as well as marking the location on a map. It's free!

Not exactly hard to set up either.

You making a rod for you own back, just keep you empty cases no more proof than that needed.

 

[Mungo]

You making a rod for you own back, just keep you empty cases no more proof than that needed.

You are a grumpy old sod.

Just because people want to do something different to you doesn’t mean it’s inherently useless.

Some people are interested in the data in and of itself. Some are interested in it because it informs planning and management, some because they have requirements to provide the data to landowners or other agencies.

Get over yourself. Your consistent negativity gets really tedious.

 

[DVS1]

Ive always used Zeiss Hunting App, lots of good features and can build up a nice sighting record also of what's where and when...plus its free!

 

[Donkey Basher]

Hi there - we are using Epicollect, it’s amazing.

Free and easy-to-use mobile data-gathering platform.

Setup your survey or questionairre in just a few easy steps. Collect from multiple devices. Available for both Android and iOS. Get it now!

five.epicollect.net

My stalking partner set this up but it’s both an app and a laptop based system. When you set up your account you decide what fields you need (we use sex, age, location, photo, condition, weight) but you can do anything you like. You could use this for a frog survey, it’s not fussy. When you shoot a deer you can enter the data on your phone - the phone does location and photo really well for e.g. you can leave fields like weight for the larder. When you are done, you upload to the cloud and the app creates a map of all cull data, or you can view as a table. In our case it’s useful for showing the landowner what’s going on, and helps tie in with their other conservation work. I couldn’t rate this enough.
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Is this open for all to view as the website lists loads of what appear to be open projects that anyone can view? Or is there a function to have a private password protected project?

 

[Donkey Basher]

Evening all.

I'm not sure what everyone uses to record their culls, but I thought I'd share my latest efforts.

I use MyHunt to record my grounds and culls, however on the cull record side I prefer the simplicity of a Google spreadsheet. It gives me much greater control over the data, such as breaking it down into gender, species, weights etc...

This brings me on to my next evolution. I got sick of having to fire up the laptop or computer every time. Editing on a phone was painful. Enter AppSheet. A Google app that enables you to turn your spreadsheet into an app.

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It may not be for everyone, but I started with a simple spreadsheet and now I've got this. I can view all my culls, view a dashboard with things like species split etc. I can also easily add culls, as well as marking the location on a map. It's free!

Not exactly hard to set up either.

Do you know if this can be set up to accommodate multiple users, ie so the whole management team can enter data that can then be harvested for the annual grant report?

 

[wytonpjs]

SWMBO produced me a nice access database tool for me to log outings for my Team of stalkers (up to 20 ideal but it’ll handle any number) in which culls are recorded and are plotted on an OS map of the area by species/sex for a defined period. It relies on the administrator entering the data (taken from a WhatsApp chat). Probably way too complex for most but in concept a good tool for managing collaborative group culling. She has no interest in developing it now but happy to share with anyone with good MS Access skills/knowledge* for tailoring to meet their needs.

* This is essential!

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

You are a grumpy old sod.

Just because people want to do something different to you doesn’t mean it’s inherently useless.

Some people are interested in the data in and of itself. Some are interested in it because it informs planning and management, some because they have requirements to provide the data to landowners or other agencies.

Get over yourself. Your consistent negativity gets really tedious.

Grumpy, I am not, but look at things through Rose tinted glasses. I also do not!

If people spent more time in the field actually doing the job instead of putting useless information on a piece of paper, maybe they would be less deer running around this country!

To most of the landowner is in the UK dead deer mean jobs being done not crap pieces of paper you can put a whole world of information on paper doesn’t mean you’ve done the job, and I wonder at the end of each year how many people fudged their figures to make it look good Just to keep their stalking I bet, I’ll wager a heap!

And as for @Mungo ta ta your going on my growing list of time wasters

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Ive always used Zeiss Hunting App, lots of good features and can build up a nice sighting record also of what's where and when...plus it’s free!

I use it a very practical app.

 

[Mungo]

And as for @Mungo ta ta your going on my growing list of time wasters

However will I cope…