The Booklet

The hunting regs reader where every date shows its source.

Deer season dates, bag rules, and closures across the fifty states, compiled from each state’s own published regulations — with the exact line of the official document printed beside every row, and each state served only while its verification is current.

Open the reader — free

No account. No app store. Works on any phone.

Why it exists

Search for your state’s deer season and you will find confident, tidy pages that are wrong — some of them wrong in the direction that gets a hunter charged. We found one telling Washington hunters a state-endangered species has “no closed season.” The page cited the very document it contradicted.

So this reader does the one thing those pages don’t: it proves where every fact came from.

The verbatim line, on every row

Not a summary. The words of the booklet, the citation, the page, and the cryptographic hash of the exact file we read.

½ hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset — shown as written. Nothing here computes a sunrise or invents a date.

What we don’t know, printed above what we do

Every state record declares its gaps — the rules it knows exist but does not carry — before you see a single row. A page that can’t admit what’s missing can’t be trusted with what’s there.

We take states down in public

When verification finds a defect, the state goes offline — dated, with the reasons printed where its rows used to be — until it is re-verified end to end. We would rather show you nothing than show you something stale.

Season Pass (coming — if you want it)

The reader is free, permanently. The Season Pass is vigilance: alerts when your states’ records change or are withdrawn, re-verification before your season opens, and year-by-year worksheets for the states that publish formulas instead of dates.

This is a genuine question, not a waitlist trick: if enough hunters say yes, we build it; if not, the free reader stays anyway.