# skhunter — Hunting weather & legal hours

> Hunting weather & legal hours (iPhone/iPad app by lei bao.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skhunter/id6824374033 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [lei bao](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896314906)
- Category: Sports, Weather
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-10-28
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is skhunter?

skhunter is a weather and hunting companion built for Saskatchewan. It puts what hunters care about most - wind, rain and snow, and legal hours - on one clean page.

• Weather & wind: temperature, feels-like, wind, gusts, humidity and sea-level pressure; hourly weather, chance of precipitation, gusts and wind arrows; a 16-day trend (day 8 onward is a trend only). Canadian GEM model first with US GFS for comparison, wind and gusts taking the higher of the two; days where the two disagree are flagged.
• Official alerts: Environment Canada weather alerts for your location. In the Chinese interface, alert text is translated on the device with Apple's built-in Translation (iOS 26 and later); the original English is one tap away and is the authoritative version.
• Legal hunting hours: sunrise, sunset and the hunting window in the location's own time zone; the note quotes the official Hunters Guide (it is unlawful to hunt any wildlife from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise).
• Coyote hunting: a coyote activity index from ten factors (wind, gusts, precipitation, temperature, pressure trend, cloud, visibility, snow cover, moon phase, dawn/dusk), moon phase and solunar periods; a year-round calling plan by season with a one-hour call timer (on-screen prompts only, no sound). Sound names follow the FOXPRO X24 standard sound list.
• Saskatchewan rules: a download link for the official 2026-27 Saskatchewan Hunters Guide (PDF) and a link to the Government of Saskatchewan hunting page; the app does not restate or interpret the rules.
• Zone map (WMZ): official wildlife management zone boundaries, your current zone highlighted and a live location dot; land parcels the Hunters Guide lists with hunting conditions or as closed, outlined from Government of Saskatchewan data (FWDF land, community pastures, National Wildlife Areas, refuges, game preserves, parks, reserves and more); tap a point for directions, double-tap a parcel to see what it is, with a pointer to the official guide; a search box for zone numbers, place names, legal land descriptions and coordinates (typing a zone number such as 17 in the main search box shows the forecast for that zone's centre; the map is one tap below the place name); a 3D view (terrain, street or satellite base map); six terrain-analysis layers - elevation bands, slope aspect, water, forest edge, distance from roads and viewshed; hold a point 3 seconds and drag to another to measure the distance in yards, with multi-leg routes. Zones and parcels work offline; base maps, 3D and terrain layers need a connection.
• Campgrounds & lodging: OpenStreetMap campgrounds and places to stay, nearest first, with phone, website, map and directions.
• Sight height: take a side-on photo of your rifle and tap four points, using the scope tube as the scale, to measure scope-to-bore height. Photos are processed on the device only; you can name and save the result.
• Hunt reminders: stored on the device, one tap to add to your calendar.
• Handy extras: favorite places; 200+ Saskatchewan towns with distance from you; one-tap Chinese/English; data export/import.
• Opens without signal: your last weather and alerts stay on the device, clearly dated.

Free, no ads, no subscriptions. No account needed; optional sign-in syncs favorites, reminders and sight-height records across devices.

For reference only. Hunting rules follow the current Saskatchewan Hunters Guide and conservation officers. Follow local laws and safety rules. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Saskatchewan, Environment Canada or FOXPRO.
Data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), Environment Canada, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), BigDataCloud, Government of Saskatchewan (zones, land parcels and the road network over satellite imagery; GOS Standard Unrestricted Use Data Licence), Natural Resources Canada (land cover, elevation, reserve boundaries; Open Government Licence - Canada), AWS Terrain Tiles, Esri (satellite imagery).

## Is skhunter safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess skhunter.

## Is skhunter legit?

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


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-11-09

Fixed the map sometimes not appearing: the map library and base-map tiles now retry automatically, and one layer failing no longer blanks the whole map.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-06

Optional sign-in (Apple, Google or email) syncs favorites, reminders and sight-height records across devices; every feature still works without an account. Zone map: tap a point for directions (Apple Maps or Google Maps), double-tap a parcel for its details, hold 3 seconds and drag to measure distance in yards - also in the 3D view, including satellite. New official lines: Wildlife Habitat Protection (WHPA) land, ecological reserves, provincial forest and RM boundaries; FWDF parcel pop-ups quote the Government of Saskatchewan's "Hunting Permission on Private Land" and link to the conservation partners' own pages (Ducks Unlimited Canada, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation). The road network over satellite imagery now comes from Government of Saskatchewan data. The app now tells you when official weather alerts could not be checked. Gusts are never shown below the wind speed. New app icon.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-11-03

New zone map card (WMZ Map): land parcels the Hunters Guide lists with hunting conditions or as closed, outlined from Government of Saskatchewan data (FWDF land, community pastures, National Wildlife Areas, refuges, game preserves, parks, reserves and more) - tap a parcel to see what it is, with a pointer to the official Hunters Guide; a search box for zone numbers, place names, legal land descriptions and coordinates (typing a zone number such as 17 in the main search box shows the forecast for that zone's centre; the map is one tap below the place name; the search box opens with your recent places); a 3D view with terrain, street or satellite imagery so you can scout the ground and roads from home; six terrain-analysis layers - elevation bands, slope aspect, water, forest edge, distance from roads and viewshed; a live location dot; press-and-hold distance measuring in yards, with multiple legs. Also: an anonymous daily usage count (no identifiers; see the privacy policy). The hourly forecast now shows gusts for every hour, and wind and gusts use the higher of the Canadian and US models (checked against two weeks of readings at six Saskatchewan airports; the Canadian model alone ran low in strong wind). Fixes: the offline banner shows the right age of saved data after a long time without signal; moon rise, set and transit minutes round correctly.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-28

No release notes.

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