Hunting
Keeping Your Dog Energized In The Field: Nutrition and Hydration
Keeping Your Dog Energized In The Field: Nutrition and Hydration By Ryan Eder It is that time of year again where we work as a team with our gun dogs and look forward to another year of bird hunting. Gun dogs are athletes. Like all athletes, a proper diet and right amount of hydration is […]
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Cross Your I’s and Dot Your T’s for Crossbow Season
Cross Your I’s and Dot Your T’s for Crossbow Season The special late crossbow season in Iowa is now entering its third year of existence. While I don’t have any concrete numbers on the popularity of or what the actual number of participants have been. I can tell you that I have witnessed more buzz […]
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Winter Accommodations for Our Dogs
Winter Accommodations for Our Dogs By Ryan Eder The winter months here in the Midwest can pose threats to the comfort and health of our dogs, especially when they live out in the kennel. I personally have my dogs in the house, but definitely like to give them adequate time outdoors in the kennel as […]
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Fall Turkey Hunting? To do or not to do?
Fall Turkey Hunting? To do or not to do? By Aaron Stonehocker I will never forget my first turkey harvested with a bow. It was my first year of archery hunting. I spent the entire year fine tuning my accuracy on paper targets strapped to hay bales at Mrs. Carol’s farm. As fall season approached […]
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20 Tips For Late Season Whitetails
20 Tips For Late Season Whitetails It’s been nearly three months since the first deer season opened in Iowa. The days are shorter and the temps are lower but there is still hunting to do. Its time for late season archery/muzzleloader hunting for whitetail! No matter if you didn’t fill your tag the first go […]
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Quail Make A Return to Southern Iowa
Quail Make A Return to Southern Iowa By Troy Hoepker Red disappeared over the embankment and into the small creek below crossing the rugged ditch and bounding up the other side effortlessly in seconds. Even though I would have preferred to hunt out the very small patch of horseweeds left on my side of the […]
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Hunting the Rut Phases and Strategies
Hunting the Rut Phases and Strategies The rut is a magical time that all whitetail hunters impatiently wait for all year long. As hunters we dedicate countless hours preparing for the upcoming season by spending time practicing shooting, planting food plots, checking trail cameras, setting blinds, and hanging tree stands. All of this preparation leads […]
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Mistakes made by Shotgun Hunters
Mistakes made by Shotgun Hunters By Jason Smith Goodness where to start… I cut my teeth on shotgun hunting when it came to hunting deer in my beautiful home state of Iowa. I joined my father’s first season hunting party when I was 14 years old, and I probably had around 15 years of shot-gunning […]
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Hunting in Cold Weather: Whitetails 365
Hunting in Cold Weather: Whitetails 365 The late hunting seasons can be some of the best times to kill a giant whitetail buck. Undoubtedly! In some cases, it can actually seem too easy. That’s right…too easy! This is the case because of some very good reasons all line up when the temperatures dip into the […]
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2021-22 Fur Market Report
2021-22 Fur Market Report As my pickup rolled to a stop I detected movement a quarter-mile away near the creek crossing in my pasture. A quick glance through the binoculars confirmed a fox desperately engaged in a tug-of-war with the chain attached to the trap gripping his leg at one of my dirt hole sets. […]
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