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Back by Dark

For club managers

Hunting club management, from the property line to the last stand.

The Back by Dark console is where a club is set up and kept running. Map the ground, place and tag your stands, and manage who hunts it. Every change is on each member’s phone straight away.

The Back by Dark console's property map: satellite imagery of Ridgeline Club's 1,240 acres with three numbered stands, a sidebar for stands, sightings, upkeep, members and reports, and buttons to draw the boundary and add a stand.

Getting set up

A club is ready in an afternoon.

Four steps, all from a browser. Nothing to install for the manager; members get the phone app.

  1. 01

    Draw the property

    Trace the boundary over satellite imagery, USGS aerials or topo contours.

  2. 02

    Place every stand

    Drop each stand where it stands, with its type, height, seats, access notes and the winds it hunts.

  3. 03

    Print the tags

    Print a scan tag for each stand and fix it where a member climbs in.

  4. 04

    Add your members

    Invite members and give each a role. They sign in on their phones and see the same map.

Stands

Every stand, its wind, and its tag.

The stand list shows each stand's type, height, the winds it hunts and whether it is open. Filter for stands that are closed or have no wind recorded, and pre-warm the offline maps members will download.

  • Tags you print. Each stand gets its own QR tag with a typed backup code. If one goes missing, issue a new one — the old tag stops working.
  • Offline-ready. Pre-warm the map tiles for your property so members’ downloads are quick before a hunt.
The Back by Dark console's stand list: Bottom Field Box, Creek Box Blind and Oak Ridge Ladder, each with type, height, best winds, open status and a Tag button.
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The Back by Dark console's member roster: two members with a role selector showing member and owner, a Remove button for each, and tabs for Who's out and Invites.

Members

Who hunts your ground, and in what role.

Invite members, set who is a member, manager or owner, and see who is out right now. Removing a member takes effect on their very next request — not whenever their sign-in happens to expire.

Through the season

What comes back to the manager.

  • An upkeep list

    When a member reports a loose rung, a torn blind or wasps in a box stand, it lands on the upkeep list with how serious they said it is.

  • The club’s sightings

    Game, blood trails, blocked trails and trespassers, dropped where they were seen, with photos — the property’s record of its own season.

  • Overdue alerts

    A member thirty minutes past check-out is asked if they are all right; at forty-five minutes managers see them flagged; at an hour, their emergency contact.

What members get

The same map, in their pocket.

Members see every stand with today’s wind, book one, scan in when they climb up and check out when they come down. It all works with no signal.

  • iPhone · In App ReviewApp Store
  • Android · Coming nextGoogle Play
Back by Dark on iPhone: Ridgeline Club's topographic map with the day's wind, and stands marked open or in use.

Ready to put your club on the map?

Tell us your club’s name and roughly how many stands and members you have, and we will help you get set up.

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