Hunting
Strategic Rooster Hunting
Strategic Rooster Hunting By Kent Boucher If I was asked to identify my greatest weaknesses I would be able to compile an extensive list within a moment, and one item on that list would be grocery shopping. I walk into the store, forget to grab a cart and then begin wandering aimlessly down the aisles […]
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October Preferred Foods and Hunting Strategies: Whitetails 365
October Preferred Foods and Hunting Strategies: Whitetails 365 The time that most of us have all been waiting for is finally upon us: Deer Season 2022! While our state’s youth have been able to be in the field for the last couple of weeks of September the rest of us have been biding our time. […]
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Iowa Deer Hunting Forecast 2022
Iowa Deer Hunting Forecast 2022 Opening day of the 2022/2023 deer season; whether you’re a bowhunter or not, this is the day that every deer hunter across Iowa has been waiting for, October 1. With the arrival of deer season, comes some important questions to ask yourself. What will this year’s deer season bring? Where […]
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Archery Accessories for Bowhunters from 2022
Archery Accessories for Iowa Bowhunters from 2022 Some Iowans are fortunate enough to shoot archery throughout the year at summer 3D shoots, spring toms, or summer bow fishing. The most popular and most exciting reason to shoot your bow is almost upon us: Iowa’s deer bow season. A lot of hunters browse stores starting this […]
READ MORE Hunting Early Season Pheasants
Hunting Early Season Pheasants October is finally here and for pheasant hunters, that means Iowa’s pheasant season will soon open. We know from survey results that last year’s pheasant hunting was phenomenal. In fact, hunters harvested more pheasants last year than any year in the last decade. We want this year to be just as […]
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Duck Hunting Small Rivers
Duck Hunting Small Rivers Hunting ducks on smaller moving waters is less common in Iowa than one might think. How you define a smaller river is objective and really can be anything from a reasonable stream to something like the Des Moines River in the northern half of the state. What comes to my mind […]
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A Smart Start to Deer Season
A Smart Start to Deer Season As deer season quickly approaches, it catches most of us by surprise every year. We generally are busy with summer vacations, kids, families, weddings, and by the time youth season or opening day of Iowa’s archery season opens up, we are behind scrambling to get “ready enough” for the […]
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Common Wing Shooting Mistakes
Common Wing Shooting Mistakes By Nick Johnson Wing Shooting is a fantastic outdoor sport that many of us grew up having the privilege to partake in. For some, myself included, pheasant hunting was what led me to love the sport of hunting, apply hunter’s safety and respect wildlife. Pheasants are definitely a popular choice for […]
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Born to Duck Hunt
Born to Duck Hunt By Steve Weisman To say a diehard duck hunter is a breed of its own is, well, definitely not an understatement. After all, who else would be excited about waking at 3 am in the morning, facing below freezing temperatures, battling strong northwest winds than one of those crazy diehard duck […]
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Why Prescribed Burns are Needed
Why Prescribed Burns are Needed By Steve Weisman Each spring we can see clouds of smoke billowing up from both state wildlife areas and on private tracts of grassland all across northwest Iowa. Oftentimes I will hear people questioning or complaining about the fire eating up the spent grasses from the previous year or even […]
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