# First Light: Hunting Times — Legal Shooting Hours & Solunar

> Legal Shooting Hours & Solunar (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Glazebrook.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-light-hunting-times/id6801640034 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael Glazebrook](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801587806)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 44 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-10-21

## What is First Light?

First Light calculates legal shooting hours — sunrise and sunset plus a configurable offset — entirely on your device. No network connection required, ever, which matters because most competing hunting-hours apps need a signal at least once to load their data.

How it works:

1. Tap "Use my location" (or enter coordinates manually for a spot you're scouting ahead of time).
2. First Light computes sunrise, sunset, and the legal shooting-hours window for that location using its GPS coordinates — no server round trip.
3. Check today's window at a glance, or scroll a 7-day outlook to plan ahead.

Each day also gets a game-activity rating from its solunar periods (the hours when the moon is overhead or underfoot) and, whenever you have a signal, the forecast: a falling barometer, wind and temperature. Treat the rating as hunting lore turned into a number, not a promise; the legal-hours math never leans on it.

The default offset is 30 minutes before sunrise / after sunset, the common federal-style norm — adjustable in-app since exact legal offsets vary by state and species.

Please verify with your local wildlife agency. Legal shooting-hour offsets and season dates vary by state and species and change year to year. First Light does not include per-state regulation data or season dates — it's a sunrise/sunset calculator with a user-adjustable offset, not a substitute for your state's official regulations.

There is nothing to sign into. Your coordinates are used to work out where the sun sits for that spot, and we never receive them. With a signal, a copy rounded to about a kilometre goes to MET Norway, the Norwegian weather service, to fetch the forecast. The banner is served blind -- no targeting, nothing about you attached.

## Is First Light safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess First Light.

## Is First Light legit?

First Light: Hunting Times appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for First Light is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.4 — 2026-10-17

Nothing on screen changes in this update. First Light now notes which way you reached your shooting hours (GPS, a town search or typed coordinates), never the location itself, so we can see which one to improve first. Good hunting this rifle season.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-10-14

A new name that says what First Light does, and a forecast from MET Norway, the Norwegian weather service. Today's pressure trend now reads the barometer over the next 24 hours, so a falling glass shows up on the day it falls. Places near American Samoa's western edge now get the right calendar day.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-09

Day labels now match your own calendar. If the place you're scouting sits in a time zone west of you, each row and the "Best day to hunt" pick used to read one day early. Legal light times were already right.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-28

Moved the manual location entry (city/zip or exact coordinates) so it appears right under the "Enter location manually" button instead of scrolled below the forecast.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-26

Moved the manual location entry (city/zip or exact coordinates) so it appears right under the "Enter location manually" button instead of scrolled below the forecast.

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All apps by Michael Glazebrook: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801587806

## Related topics

[hunting times](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/hunting-times)

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