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campfire cooking, camping, cooking outside, gilling, dutchoven, camping meals

Campfire Cooking Made Simple

Campfire Cooking Made Simple One of the best parts of camping is gathering around the fire and sharing a meal after a day outdoors. While modern campers have plenty of cooking gadgets to choose from, you don’t need much equipment to turn out great camp meals. Campfire Essentials A few basic items can handle most […]

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The Iowa Sportsman, Magazine, Whitetails, hunting, deer hunting, how to scout for deer, deer food plot

Summer Foodplots & Projects

Summer Projects for Whitetail Hunters If you’ve been hunting for any period of time, you know a lot of hunting comes down to luck. I’ve always been a fan of trying to make my own luck, or get myself set up in as good a spot as possible to be ready for when a trophy […]

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When Is My Puppy Ready For The Field?gundog, The Iowa Sportsman, , training, puppy training, dog training, pheasant hunting

Training Your Gundog for the Field

When Is My Puppy Ready For The Field? A puppy’s readiness for the field is relative. To bring clarity to this article, I call any dog under the age of two a puppy. Large breed dogs are still developing mentally and physically until they are 16-24 months old. So, if we identify any dog under […]

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TOPWATER BASS FISHING, buzzbaits, stickbaits, jerkbaits, bass fishing, iowa

Topwater Bass Fishing

Topwater Bass Fishing Of all of the methods that anglers use in chasing after and landing bass, having one of these feisty fish explode on a topwater bait is one of my all-time favorites. In my early years of bass fishing and learning to catch them, topwater wasn’t part of my arsenal. As it turned out, my first encounter […]

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