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BC Hunt takes the BC Hunting & Trapping Regulations Synopsis and organises it by management unit, so you can see what is open where you are standing, on the date you are standing there. The regulations, the unit boundaries, and the sunrise and moon figures are all stored on your phone, so the app keeps working with no cell service. It is free, there is no account, and it collects nothing about you.
What each tab does
Seasons
The main screen. It lists every season open in your current management unit on the date shown at the top, grouped into Big Game, Game Birds, Small Game, Furbearers and Migratory Birds, with the season dates, the bag limit and any restrictions on each row. Tap a row for the full detail sheet — the regulation text as it is written in the synopsis, the conditions that apply, and the synopsis page number. Underneath the list is a sun and moon card for that date and location: sunrise, sunset, and the legal light window of half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.
Map
Every management unit boundary in the province. Your current unit is drawn in a thick amber line with a light fill; the others are thin teal. Tap inside any unit to see its code and region, then tap Show seasons here to make it your current unit and jump to Seasons. Long-press to pin a spot by hand, use the button in the bottom-right corner to find yourself by GPS, and use the button in the top bar to hide the boundaries when they are in the way.
One thing to know before you rely on it: the terrain, water and roads underneath the boundaries stream from the internet. The boundaries and the place names are stored on your phone, so with no signal you still get those, but they will be sitting on a plain background rather than a map.
Regulations
The condition footnotes out of the synopsis — the fine print that season tables point at — grouped under Species, Regional, MU-Specific and Provincial Conditions, each one showing its scope and the synopsis page it came from. The search box at the top filters across all of it, so you can type a species, a unit or a phrase you half-remember. At the top of the tab is a link that opens the full official Hunting & Trapping Regulations Synopsis PDF.
Note that this list is the whole dataset, not just your unit. It is a library you search, not a filtered view — the scope shown under each entry tells you where it applies. If anything in the synopsis could not be read cleanly for your current unit, a red card near the top says how many items and lets you expand and read them as they were printed.
LEH
Limited Entry Hunting. A card at the top counts down to the application deadline for the current draw and shows the application fee. Below it, the hunts in your own unit only: hunt code, hunt name, the dates, and last year's odds as a "1 in N" figure. Use the species dropdown to narrow the list, and the star on any hunt to add it to My Hunt Codes, which stays on your phone between launches. Tap a hunt for the rest of what the synopsis lists — quota, zone, maximum group size, restrictions — the source text unedited, and a link straight to its page in the LEH synopsis. The odds are last year's actual results, not a forecast for this year's draw.
More
Which dataset you are on and the dates it is effective for, a Check for updates now button, and a light / automatic / dark switch for the screen. Further down: the disclaimer, the data and icon attributions, the open-source licences, and About, which shows your app version and your regulation dataset version together. Long-press that About line to copy both — that is the fastest way to put them in an email. Report an issue at the bottom opens a message to [email protected].
Common questions
How do I change my management unit?
Go to the Map tab, tap inside the unit you want, and tap Show seasons here. That sets it everywhere in the app and takes you back to Seasons. To let GPS decide instead, use the locate button in the bottom-right of the Map, or the GPS button on the unit line at the top of Seasons. Either way the app remembers your unit the next time you open it. There is no search box for unit codes — the Map is how you pick one.
How does the date work?
The arrows either side of the date move you one day at a time. Tap the date itself to open a calendar and jump further — the calendar covers the period the current dataset is effective for, which More shows as an Effective … to … line. The date always starts on today when you open the app; it is not remembered.
What does "Opens soon" mean?
It is the collapsed section under the season list. Tap it and you get the next eight seasons that open after the date you are looking at, nearest first, each with how many days away it is. It follows the date on screen rather than today, so scrubbing forward changes what appears in it. It is not a fixed number of days: in a quiet part of the year the next opening can be months out and will still be listed there.
What is the ⚠ SUB-UNIT badge?
It means that season does not apply to the whole management unit — the synopsis limits it to some part of the unit, described in words, and the app could not turn that description into a boundary it can draw or check. Treat the row as a lead, not an answer: open it, read the Sub-unit qualifier line in the detail sheet, and confirm the area in the synopsis before you hunt it.
What do the other badges and the conditions count mean?
They are the restrictions on that season, at a glance:
- LEH ONLY you need a Limited Entry Hunting authorisation — a general open season does not cover it.
- BOW ONLY MUZZLELOADER SHOTGUN the season is restricted to that weapon.
- YOUTH RESIDENT ONLY the season is limited to that class of hunter.
The badge counting conditions on a row tells you how many footnotes attach to that season. Nothing on the row is shortened — tap it and the detail sheet shows every condition in full, with the symbol the synopsis prints beside it.
I checked for updates. Why is the data the same?
A new dataset is downloaded and verified straight away, but it is only picked up the next time
the app starts fresh. On a phone or tablet, close BC Hunt completely and open it again, then check
the dataset line in More — it should show the new r number. On the website a banner
appears once the download finishes and the Reload button on it does the same job.
The app does not prompt you about this on the phone, so if the version did not move, a restart is
the thing to try.
Does it work with no signal?
Yes, for the parts that matter. The regulations, seasons, conditions, LEH hunts, unit boundaries and the sun and moon figures are all stored on your phone and are calculated on the device — none of them ask the network. Two things do need a connection: the terrain layer under the Map, and opening the official synopsis PDF. GPS itself is not internet, so finding your unit works out of service as well.
Getting help
Email [email protected]. That is the same address as Report an issue in the app, under More.
If the data looks wrong, include these
A regulation error is only fixable if it can be reproduced, and that takes four things:
- the management unit — the code at the top of Seasons, e.g. 4-09;
- the species, and the class if the row names one;
- the date you had selected;
- the dataset version from More — the whole line, e.g.
2026-2028 · dataset r2.
Fastest way to get the last one right: open More, long-press the About line, and paste. That copies your app version and your dataset version together. If you know the synopsis page that disagrees with the app, say so — it goes straight to the fix.
Disclaimer
BC Hunt is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the Province of British Columbia.
It is a reference tool for hunters, and it is not the legal authority. Hunting regulations change. This dataset may be out of date or contain errors. Always verify against the official BC Hunting & Trapping Regulations Synopsis before hunting. When in doubt, the official synopsis and a conservation officer are the authoritative sources.
Management unit boundaries contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Regulation data is derived from the BC Hunting & Trapping Regulations Synopsis, © Province of British Columbia.