Hunting journal for scouting, trail cameras, harvests and season review

This hunting journal helps you recall each outing, learn from wind and weather, and hold an entire season together in one binder. Its 50 undated pages include 20 full page outing logs, 4 scouting logs, trail camera records, notes for stands and blinds, a season planner, a place for license and tag details, a gear checklist, harvest records, a season review and map pages. You get US Letter and A4 PDF files to download instantly, and nothing is posted.

Fill it in as you go, and by the end of the year your notes become next year's plan.

What a hunting journal does for your season

Every log page asks for the date, spot, weather, moon phase, temperature and wind speed, with a compass to circle the wind direction, plus your arrival and leaving times, a table of animals seen, harvest details, the gear you carried and a dotted area for sketching the ground.

Before opening day you can note your license and tag information, season dates and bag limits, plan where to go and pack from the checklist, then leave the hunt plan sheet with someone at home so they know your whereabouts. Scouting and trail camera pages reveal patterns in sign, sightings and timing, and stand notes record the ideal wind and approach for each location. When the season closes, a monthly sightings tally and a review page help you plan the next one.

Who it suits

• Deer, elk, turkey, waterfowl and small game hunters who want every outing on record and patterns they can see across years
• Newer hunters forming good routines around scouting, planning and tracking licenses and tags
• Anyone running trail cameras who wants photo results and stand notes kept together
• Families and friends sharing a camp who want to save the stories of each season
• Hunters who enjoy looking back on time in the field through notes, sketches and sightings

Design and printing

• Elegant and minimal: white pages with soft blush pink accents that keep ink use low
• Wide margins, so a home printer will not crop the edges
• Portrait format in US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• Undated, so you can begin in any season and reprint the outing, scouting and trail camera pages year after year
• Ready for a binder or clipboard, or for spiral binding at a print shop
• Print the planning pages once and reprint the outing, scouting, camera and harvest pages for your own personal use as needed. Keep the hunt plan at home with someone you trust

Inside the hunting journal: 50 pages

1. 1Cover page and a list of contents
2. 2A four step way to use the book (plan, scout, hunt, look back), six reminders to hunt safely and legally that open with following your local hunting laws, and how to number stands and cameras
3. 3About you as a hunter: how you began, who taught you, the game you pursue, skills to build, your hunting in brief, a dream hunt and this season's goals
4. 4A blank record for licenses and tags, its 14 row table covering type, number, species, unit or area, validity dates, filled and reported, plus hunter education details, this season's rules to remember, where your paperwork lives and reminders to renew
5. 5Season planner with a 12 row table listing species, season or method, open and close dates, area, bag limit and tag, plus areas to hunt, a pre opening day checklist, goals and the days you are free to hunt
6. 6An undated year overview with one box per month and space for important dates
7. 7A packing checklist in six categories (clothing, in my pack, safety, stand and blind, after the harvest, vehicle and camp), extra lines for your own items and a list of gear to mend, swap or buy
8. 8A hunt plan to leave at home: where you will be, parking, stand or route, departure and return times, a sketch of the location, vehicle details and who to contact if you do not come back
9. 9 to 10Notes on stands and blinds, room for two places on each page: draw a map, circle the ideal morning and evening wind, then record the spot, how you get in, where to park, walking time, height and direction it faces, shooting lanes, nearby food and water, the prime time and extra notes
10. 11 to 14Scouting pages to note when and where you went, how long you stayed and the conditions, circle any of ten sign types you found (tracks, droppings, rubs, scrapes, beds, trails, feeding, wallows, feathers, calls heard), sketch the area, list discoveries in a table, mark food and water, likely stand sites and next visit ideas
11. 15Trail camera placement table with 14 rows (camera, location, set on, facing, batteries, card, checked on, moved), a checklist for your checking routine and camera settings
12. 16Trail camera results table with 22 rows (date, camera, time, species, how many, notes), patterns you spot and your top camera so far
13. 17 to 36Outing log with a full page per hunt: hunt number, date, location, weather, moon, temperature, wind speed, pressure, wind direction compass, start, finish and total hours, stand or route, game seen table, dotted sketch map, harvest notes, gear, notes and lessons learned
14. 37 to 38An 18 line harvest table recording date, species, sex and age, area, tag number, whether reported, approximate weight, processing and notes, plus where the meat went and a running tally for the season
15. 39 to 40Harvest story pages with a photo or sketch box, nine detail lines, the full story, what you are grateful for and what you learned
16. 41Monthly sightings tally for 16 species across January to December, with your busiest month and unexpected sightings
17. 42Season review covering your numbers, best day, what worked, what you would change, top stand or area, gear notes and goals for the next season
18. 43 to 45Field notes pages with a sketch box, observations and lines
19. 46 to 47Two large grid maps to draw your ground, with fields for area and scale and a legend for stands, blinds, cameras, trails, water and parking
20. 48Landowners and contacts, a 12 row permissions table, helpful contacts and a list of people to thank
21. 49Lined notes
22. 50Dot grid notes

What you get

• Hunting Journal, US Letter PDF (50 pages)
• Hunting Journal, A4 PDF (50 pages)
• Read Me First, a brief PDF printing guide

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Important to know

• The PDF is designed for paper and is not a hyperlinked digital planner, though you can import it into most note taking apps and write on it.
• This is a digital download only. Nothing physical is shipped.
• Colors may print slightly differently from how they look on screen.
• For personal use only. Please do not pass on, resell or redistribute the files.
• Digital files cannot be returned, but if a file will not open or print correctly, email us and we will help quickly.
• Always obey your local hunting laws, season dates, bag limits, tagging, reporting and safety rules. The journal is only a record keeping tool and is no replacement for official regulations or a hunter education course.
• The license and tag page is intentionally blank. Copy details from your own documents and carry the originals as your local rules require.
• There are no weapon instructions anywhere in this journal.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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