THE RESEARCH ENGINE
Scout is what the research looks like on a map.
Fully Drawn Research builds the datasets first — public records, normalized, deduplicated, scored — then ships them as layers and reports inside Scout. Most of it is free to read right now.
County Reports
Free102 Illinois county reports: FDR Index rank, record-book table, 20-year harvest trend, seasons.
Read the research →Public-Land Directory
Free570 public hunting areas with regs, species and permit links.
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FDR Deer Herd Index
All 102 counties ranked by one transparent, weighted index.
Read the research →Missouri County Index
FreeEvery Missouri county on the provisional FDR index — harvest, trophy, and roadway signals from MDC public records.
Read the research →Wisconsin County Index
FreeAll 72 Wisconsin counties on the provisional FDR index, built from WDNR harvest history back to 1960.
Read the research →Research Analytics
Pro12 graphical reports per county, from harvest trends to age structure.
Open in Scout →How the numbers are built.
Primary sources only
State agency records, record books, county parcel data — no scraped guesses.
Normalized & comparable
Every county measured the same way before it's ranked.
Counted once
Trophy records deduplicated across the major whitetail record books — a buck listed in more than one counts a single time.