Points Afield is published by Acroamatic, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company. Both filings are public. You can check them without taking our word for any of it.
Go and check.Every line above is searchable in the Ohio Secretary of State business registry by name or by charter number. A site that tells you when you may legally shoot a bird should be at least as accountable as the agencies it cites, and that means being findable in a public register rather than merely having a contact form.
Why a company, and not just a name.Accountability here is held by the entity, deliberately. A byline tells you who typed a date; a filed company tells you who answers for it, in a register that exists whether or not this site does. Corrections go to the company and are answered by it.
Five steps, the same five every time, for all 1,019 determinations. If a date here is wrong, one of these steps failed — and you can tell us which.
Compiled by system.The 1,019 determinations are gathered and re-checked by scheduled automated passes against each agency's own published regulation. That is why the record is current at this size, instead of covering a handful of states well and the rest badly. The passes follow written sourcing rules, and every determination keeps the citation it was read from.
Reviewed by a person.Not every one of the 1,019 passes under my eye, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. What I do is read this record continuously — the pages themselves, the wording, the classifications, the edge cases the rules handle badly — and fix what is wrong, unclear, or useless to somebody planning a hunt. Where a determination has looked wrong, I have gone to the agency and checked it. The standard those automated passes are held to is mine, and so is the answer when the record misses.
And why it stays right.I hunt upland birds, and I am banking preference points for western big game — the points this site is named for. I built it because I wanted to see the detail through the data for my own seasons: which state to apply in, which bird is actually open, which trip is worth the drive. The record has to be accurate because I am planning my own hunts out of it. That is the quality control that matters most here — a wrong date costs me a season before it costs you one.
360 dated seasons.Of 1,019 determinations, these are the pairs carrying a real, regulated season window with bag limits and shooting hours. They are the pages with dates on them, and they are the minority of the record.
565 recorded absences.The bird does not occur in that state. Written down rather than left blank, because "you cannot hunt chukar in Colorado, and here is the agency page that says so" is usually what the trip actually turned on. An absence is an answer, and answering it is work.
94 closed or unregulated.Present in the state, but no season: a closure, a population the state does not manage as game, or dates the agency has not published yet. Each one gets a page saying which of the three it is.
What this is not.Not a substitute for the regulation booklet. Seasons get amended, emergency closures happen, and licence requirements vary by residency, unit and weapon. Every page here names the agency it came from and links out to it. Read the current regulations before you hunt.
A wrong date is the worst thing this site can do to you. Tell us and we will check it against the agency and correct the page.
Questions, coverage requests, press, or a state you would like to see get more depth. Both addresses reach the same desk.
Last updated