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Snaring Coyotes on Edges & Points

Snaring Coyotes on Edges & Points By Joshua Jones It was January 2nd, 2008. My trapping partner, Justin Garrison, was riding with me headed toward a new farm we had just acquired to trap on and we knew it held coyotes. We turned onto the paved road that lead to the property and did what […]

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Enrich Deer Habitat with Hinge Cutting

Enrich Deer Habitat with Hinge Cutting: Whitetails 365

Enrich Deer Habitat with Hinge Cutting: Whitetails 365 Practically every timber in Iowa could benefit from hinge cutting to create cover and browse for whitetail deer. Hinge cutting is when a tree is cut, about waist high, partially through. The tree then falls with the top of the tree resting on the ground, and the […]

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planning a spring food plot Hunting the Late Archery Split

Planning a Spring Food Plot

Planning a Spring Food Plot When most people are planning a food plot for deer and turkey, we think of fall food plots. We think of brassicas, purple top turnips, and radishes. Maybe we even consider planting some winter wheat or rye. All these annuals are planted in the fall. Have you ever considered planning […]

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How ATVs and UTVs Revolutionize Food Plots Bagging Late Season Bucks Benefits of Timber Stand Improvement Shotgun Tactics for Success

Benefits of Timber Stand Improvement

Create A Deer Haven with Timber Stand Improvement I would have to say that a good portion of my deer knowledge has come from years and years of watching any hunting show that I could get my hands on. Yes, admittedly, maybe I spent too much time doing that, but there was information gained and […]

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Analyzing Sheds How Not To Shed Hunt

Analyzing Sheds: What Can They Tell You

Analyzing Sheds: What Can They Tell You Two thunderous shots from a shotgun filled the timber. I anxiously scanned as far as I could see to the north, the direction in which I heard the shots. This was Iowa’s opening day of shotgun season. I was in high school and this was the 8th shotgun […]

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Bobcat Hunting Tips and Tricks How To Call Bobcats Killer Bobcat Calling Techniques

Killer Bobcat Calling Techniques

Killer Bobcat Calling Techniques From our parking spot we could see the magical place where we wanted to be, high on a hill overlooking the most beautiful predator habitat you’ve ever seen. It would be a half-mile hike to get there but we knew the long walk was worth it. There was never a shortage […]

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A Season to Remember Butchering: It's In Your Blood

Butchering: It’s In Your Blood

Butchering: It’s In Your Blood One of my favorite conversation starters is to tell the tragic story of my name. My first name “Kent” is the same as my dad’s middle name. What’s so bad about that? Well nothing, except that he got the name from his grandmother’s preferred brand of smokes. As for my […]

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What you Need to Know about Late Season Waterfowling

What you Need to Know about Late Season Waterfowling By Nick Johnson Arguably my favorite time of year for duck and goose hunting is late season. There’s just something about battling the elements, scraping ice off my beard and fooling weary birds that gets the adrenaline flowing. This is the time of year when a […]

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Late Season Whitetail Tag Out Tactics

Late Season Whitetail Tag Out Tactics By Sean Wuller – Land Specialist with United Country Trophy Properties & Auction for Iowa As the end of the Whitetail hunting season draws to an end here in Iowa, some of us still have some tags that are burning holes in our pockets. While sitting around at our […]

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Playing Percentages Pays Off Calling Coyotes

Playing Percentages Pays Off Calling Coyotes

Playing Percentages Pays Off Calling Coyotes The sea of blue-green sagebrush seemingly went on forever until it met the steep butte off in the distance and turned into a wall of rocky red earth mixed with grey and white lines of mineral deposits exposed by centuries of erosion. As I sat overlooking the huge landscape […]

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