About
Finding groundwas neverthe hard part.
Earning trust on both sides of the gate is the hard part. Landowners are not withholding access because they dislike hunters — they are withholding it because they cannot tell the careful ones from the rest, and one bad weekend costs more than a season of lease income.
The position
Not another listings board.
Roughly seventy-two percent of the Lower 48 is privately owned, and in the whitetail heartland almost all of the quality hunting is behind a gate. There is no shortage of ways to find that ground — mapping apps will show you the parcel and the owner’s name.
What does not exist is the layer underneath: two-sided verification, insurance, waivers that actually gate access, payments that settle cleanly, and the ongoing operations of clubs, outfitters, and harvest records. A listings site profits from transactions it never has to stand behind. An operating platform is judged on whether a club’s season actually ran.
We are building the second thing. It is slower, it is much harder to copy, and it is the only version that a landowner has any reason to trust.
What we hold ourselves to
Four things we have committed to.
Each one has already cost us a faster launch or a bigger list. That is what makes them worth putting in writing where you can hold us to them.
Ground first, hunters second.
We build for landowners, clubs, and lease managers first, and we do not advertise to hunters in a region until there is real ground on it. Nobody gets sold access that does not exist yet.
Gates, not deadlines.
Insurance, the legal pack, compliance, and payments are gates. If one is open, access does not open — even if the date has been announced.
Location stays private
Approximate region in public, permanently. Precise data is released to an approved hunter by the landowner, and never published.
One percent, built in
One percent of every Territory Holdings platform's profits goes to land, water, and habitat. Profits, not revenue — the smaller true number.
The lineage
AnglerPass runs this model already.
Same company, same platform, a genuinely harder sport.
AnglerPass is the trusted operating platform for private fly-fishing access — live today, connecting anglers, clubs, guides, and landowners across the country. The payments, waivers, club management, and communications rails it runs on are the same ones underneath HunterPass.
Hunting is the harder problem. Fly fishing access is mostly day-rate rod fees on water a club manages. Hunting is dominated by seasonal leases, clubs that govern themselves through elected officers, stand assignment, weapon seasons, harvest reporting, landowner tag allocations, and disease rules that change by unit and by year.
Sharing the rails means we start from a working system rather than a slide. It does not mean the hard part is done.
Where we are
Honestly, in one paragraph.
Colorado is our target launch, 01 November 2026, with a named beta cohort of clubs and ranches we already know — not a public marketplace. Insurance is not bound yet, and no region opens until it is. The Southeast follows through 2027 on the lease-signing calendar. Everything on this site that has not shipped says so.
About questions
The skeptical ones
Who is behind HunterPass?
Territory Holdings, Inc. — the company behind AnglerPass, which has been running the same model for private fly-fishing access. HunterPass is built by the same team on the same platform lineage, with its own Stripe, its own data, and its own compliance posture.
Is this just AnglerPass with different photos?
No, and it would be a much easier product if it were. The payments, waivers, and communications rails port directly. Almost everything above them is new: seasonal leases rather than day rates, self-governing clubs with elected officers, stand assignment, weapon seasons, harvest reporting, landowner vouchers, and CWD rules that vary by unit.
Why start in Colorado rather than the Southeast?
Because Colorado has a deadline we can be genuinely useful against. Landowner voucher registration closes on 1 December, and tracking deeded acreage, registrations, drawn vouchers, and transfers against that date is real work we can take off a ranch's hands this year. The Southeast follows in 2027, timed to when clubs actually negotiate leases — January to April — so that by the time we ask a club there to trust us with their season, a Colorado club has already run one end to end.
What are you not going to do?
Publish property locations. Send landowners unverified strangers. Sell hunter or landowner data. Open a region before insurance and the legal pack are in place. Take the relationship between a club and its landowner. Those are constraints rather than promises, and they are the reason the rest of it can work.
Six roles, one network
Find your side of the gate.
Landowner, club officer, outfitter, guide, wildlife manager, or hunter — tell us which one you are and what you run. A person comes back to you inside a day.