About
Built for a hunter who spent twenty years analyzing investments.
Then made available to everyone else.
Fully Drawn Research started as a private analytical framework — a system built to answer a question that kept coming up during pre-season planning: which ground actually represents the best opportunity, and how do you know? The maps were always good. The data underneath the decisions was not. So a structured research process was built from scratch — drawing on the same analytical discipline applied professionally to investment research for two decades. What began as a personal tool became Scout: the research engine welded to a map.
The Analyst Behind the Research
Investment-grade discipline, applied to hunting intelligence.
The methodology behind FDR was developed by a CFA charterholder and MBA with two decades of professional investment experience. That background shapes everything about how this research is constructed: the sourcing of primary data over secondhand accounts, the insistence on normalized and comparable metrics across jurisdictions, the emphasis on what's decision-useful rather than merely informative, and the conviction-weighted framing of conclusions.
The analytical framework is proprietary and not fully disclosed. What can be said: it treats county and ground selection the way a rigorous investor treats an asset allocation decision — with structured inputs, explicit assumptions, and a scoring methodology designed to surface undervalued opportunities rather than confirm popular ones.
Why Scout exists
The map apps built the navigation layer. FDR built the decision layer — which county, which ground is worth your time. Scout is both in one app — the research engine driving a flagship-class hunting map.
- Show terrain, land ownership and boundaries
- Help you navigate ground once you've chosen it
- Answer: how do I get around this property?
- Operationally excellent — the navigation layer
- Scores counties on harvest, records and pressure
- Shows the owner of every Illinois parcel — free
- Answers: where is the opportunity actually worth it?
- The decision layer, on top of the map
Who This Is For
Hunters who make decisions the way analysts make investment calls.
Scout is not a general hunting app. It is a research tool for the subset of hunters who approach location selection analytically — who already read agency reports, track counties across seasons, and recognize that the pre-season research process is where most outcomes are determined. If you're trying to optimize where you spend your time rather than simply enjoy the process of exploring options, this is built for you.
Open the app, bring your saved pins, and see what the research looks like on a map.