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, so a buck listed in more than one counts a single time.