Increase Turkey Hunting Success with Advanced Mapping with REVEAL Camera Integration

Turkey hunting and mapping go hand-in-hand.

Having a successful turkey hunt starts long before the hunt itself. Smart hunters will spend weeks and months learning the land, scouting for turkeys, and patterning their movements. This hinges on good mapping and a sound understanding of topography, as hunters must be able to identify turkey habitat, locate roosting areas, and understand terrain features.

Digital mapping has come a long way in just the past few years, and turkey hunters can now take advantage of mapping features available through the Tactacam REVEAL Xtra plan add-on.

Mapping skills and map reading can help turkey hunters increase their success in several ways:

• ID potential habitat: With good maps, hunters can pick out habitats that turkeys favor, including water sources, food sources, and cover.
• Locate roost areas: You can use maps to find likely roosts, which are often high points, ridges, or areas overlooking fields.
• Understand terrain features: With detailed maps a hunter can better understand how turkeys will move through a landscape and plan their approach accordingly.
• Not stray into land parcels where hunting is restricted: Hunters may cover miles of terrain–sometimes even in the dark–and property lines are rarely marked. Hunting where you are not allowed to could have serious legal and civil consequences.
• Most easily access the land you want to hunt: Mapping can reveal trailheads, access points, and trails.

Turkey hunting can be difficult, and ranks second in hunting popularity only behind whitetail deer. Hunters need to find every advantage they can to increase their chances of bagging a bird.

Tactacam’s REVEAL Xtra plan brings both tech and strategy to turkey hunting, offering a wealth of advantages that can improve your turkey hunt. Xtra is an optional add-on available to every REVEAL customer no matter what plan they are currently on. At just $9 a month, one add-on covers every camera active on your plan.

Here’s how Xtra can improve your spring turkey hunting success once your REVEAL trail cam is set up.

1. Leverage Mapping for Better Insight

Xtra allows you to map the locations of all your cameras in relation to each other. This helps you see which areas are getting the most turkey activity. By reviewing the images sent by your cameras and locating them on the map, you can track patterns such as the time of day they are most active, popular travel routes, and where the strut zones are.

2. Create Custom Paths and Pins

Create and use custom pins to mark roosting areas, strut zones, popular travel routes, and more. This can help you plot your plan of attack.

3. Optimize Your Hunting Locations

Once you gather data from your cameras and map turkey movement patterns, you can fine-tune your hunt and plan your hunting setups accordingly.

For example, when you learn where the roosting areas are, you can set up in a suitable spot at first light. Learn where feeding areas are? Then you can get positioned between the roost and those food sources. ID strut zones? You can set up a blind and let the turkeys come to you. Your map will also help you avoid spooking the turkeys by indicating the best entry and exit spots.

Upgrading your account to Xtra is simple once you are in the REVEAL app:

• Go to your Account icon in the bottom right
• Select Plan
• Toggle the Xtra add-on to "On"

You can cancel Xtra whenever you like, but keep in mind that canceling will immediately disable Xtra functions and no refunds or credits are issued. To cancel, go to the account icon, select Plan, and toggle the Xtra add-on to "Off." Confirm by selecting "Yes."

The Tactacam REVEAL Xtra plan is a powerful tool that can easily be used to enhance spring turkey hunts by combining trail camera technology with detailed mapping. The intuitive mapping features included in Xtra allow you to monitor turkey patterns so you can pinpoint the best hunting locations, track animal movements, and refine your hunting strategy.