Hunting
Herbicide Applications: Whitetails 365
Whitetails 365: Herbicide Applications: Why and How I got a call from a close friend the other night while I was watching You Tube videos about, what else, deer hunting. The phone conversation went something like, “Hey, I’m building a sprayer for my UTV. How do you know what kind of nozzles to buy? What […]
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Simple Things Landowners can do to Improve Wildlife
Simple Things Landowners can do to Improve Wildlife One of my favorite things about hunting is watching different wildlife interacting and coexisting in one place. Whether you are an avid hunter or wildlife enthusiast, there are a few projects you can do to improve your land’s attractiveness to wildlife. Wildlife require habitat, water, and food […]
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Trail Cameras: Maximize Success with a Plan of Attack!
Trail Cameras: Maximize Success with a Plan of Attack Trail cameras have come a long way since the early 1980s when a group of students from Missouri State University looked for ways to study whitetail deer behavior for an assignment to complete their Masters. Since then we have gone from monstrous boxes that literally held […]
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How to Improve your Deer Stands
How to Improve your Deer Stands Edge, ridge, creek, saddle, funnel, bench, pinch. These are all words that deer hunters begin throwing around when we consider stand placement for hunting whitetails. Many times we nod our head in agreement and decide that this method or that method is the best when it comes to perching […]
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The Wild Past of Iowa
The Wild Past of Iowa Iowa officially became a state on December 28, 1846 but that does not mean people weren’t living here long before that. I often wondered as I’ve been in the timber, “Who was here before me?” Alternatively, even along those lines, “What was here before me?” I’m sure if the timber […]
READ MORE Herbicides Now and Next Year’s Tree Plantings: Whitetails 365
Herbicides Now, and Planning for Next Year’s Tree Plantings: Whitetails 365: A Second Spraying, or the First Weeds are the death of many food plots. Weeds can completely take over a plot of clover or alfalfa, lower yields or kill off soybeans altogether, and can make a corn stand look like CRP ground getting out […]
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The Ins and Outs of ATV Ownership
The Ins and Outs of ATV Ownership As a kid, I was fortunate enough to be able to ride a 4 wheeler all over my family’s acreage. My father had found a hot deal on a “retired” racing quad. This ATV was purchased with the idea of a do-all type of vehicle, mostly used to […]
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10 Food Plot Myths – Podcast
Welcome to another episode of The Iowa Sportsman Podcast. On this episode Dan welcomes Jessica Graham to the show. Jessica dives into some topics on whitetail food plots that might not be so truthful. Topics discussed include cost of creating and maintaining a food plot, varieties of species, size of food plots, equipment needed, and […]
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Get Into The Outdoors
Get Into The Outdoors My wife and I have four daughters! You can all pray for us! But truthfully, I wouldn’t change it for the world. Having these young ladies in my life has been an incredible journey as we have raised them through the years. My oldest is sixteen and my youngest is eight. […]
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The Dangers of Being Too Good: Whitetails 365:
Whitetails 365: The Dangers of Being Too Good I was watching a pretty well-known hunting show a few years back and the host of the show was talking about habitat improvements on his farm. Through the segment, he was explaining why he was creating the best habitat on every acre of his farm. The explanation […]
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