Hunting

Dove Opener Countdown

Dove Opener Countdown If you’re looking for something fun to do with your dog before the upland and/or waterfowl seasons open, you should consider dove hunting. Forty-one of the lower forty-eight states have a dove season.  Pursuing doves creates high demands for our dogs. The hunts are action-packed, especially if you’re in a hot field. […]

Types of Sportsmen

Types of Sportsman Sportsmen and women come in all different shapes, sizes, ages, etc. We have our own individual personalities that make us each unique. We come from different walks of life. Work different types of careers or go to different schools. Have different political and religious views. etc. It seems, at times; about the […]

Small Tracts Can Yield Big Racks

Small Tracts Can Yield Big Racks By Kevin Sturm Small farm owners are faced with a constant juggling act of income vs. habitat. In most cases, there has to be a happy medium of both to make a small farm work, not only from the checkbook stand point but also by what is hanging on […]

Master These Skills to Improve your Bird Dog

Master These Skills to Improve your Bird Dog So, you want to upland hunt with your dog, huh? I want to applaud you. Your dog has natural hunting abilities, but if you just plan on taking them to the field on opening day, hoping they’ll just figure it out, you might get surprised, but even more […]

Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports

Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports I can still remember the day my mom told me we had to watch the next episode of “Buckmasters TV.” Being an oblivious five-year-old, you can only imagine how excited I was to see my picture pop up as their weekly winner of a FREE Buckmasters Daisy Model 840 BB […]

DIY Iowa Kill Plots

DIY Iowa Kill Plots Developing a food plot for deer requires more than a few months of preparation, it’s a year-round process. Some of my best food plot strategies have been born from time spent in the stand, carefully observing how deer move, what they browse on, and where natural edges or clearings create opportunities. […]

Drought, Deer, and the Looming Threat of EHD

Deer and the Looming Threat of EHD: Whitetails 365

Deer and the Looming Threat of EHD As we gear up for 2025’s deer season, we’re praying for rain, and hoping the deer we passed to let grow, will make it to another hunting season. With that said, several reliable sources are predicting a continuation of the dry conditions that have plagued our landscape in […]

Food Plots in Iowa: Whitetails 365

Food Plots in Iowa One of the best things about living in Iowa is the wildlife we get to see every day. I think just about every Iowan can appreciate the opportunity to watch wildlife in their backyard, from their treestand, or their blind. We have several different species of animals. Northern Iowa has more […]

Developing a Top Notch Gun Dog

If someone asked, “Are you a patient person?” How would you answer them? Is patience something you value and work on? Is patience an attitude you choose? Webster defines patient as: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint, manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain, not hasty or impetuous, steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or […]

Spring Turkeys’ Thunder

The woods wake up slow but loud on opening morning. First, it’s the hoot owls calling back and forth in the dark, their haunting sounds echoing through the timber. Then, the first streaks of pink and orange stretch across the horizon as the song birds begin to wake up as the landscape takes on […]

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