Hunting

Last Second Scouting Tips

Last Second Scouting Tips: No time to scout? No worries! The best time to scout for turkeys is the weeks or even days leading up to your season. While scouting for birds every weekend all year round is fun and gives you something to do, it isn’t necessarily in order to take a turkey this […]

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How To Become A Landowner – Podcast

Welcome to another episode of The Iowa Sportsman Podcast! On this episode Dan is joined by Ben Harshyne of Whitetail Properties. This is a great show for anyone looking at making the jump into landownership. Thy guys discuss numerous topics about what you need to know when buying recreational property. Ben gives great step by […]

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The Turkey Season Dilemma

The Turkey Season Dilemma There is nothing like a cool crisp morning in the Spring. A gentle blanket of dew, or possibly frost, on the ground, the sun slowly warming up the sky, and the silence that is shattered by a tom turkey sounding off from his roost. A gobble will get a hunters heart […]

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Prepping For Spring Turkey Hunting – Podcast

Welcome to The Iowa Sportsman Podcast! On this episode, Dan Johnson is joined by guest Billy Pryor to get into a discussion about Iowa’s upcoming turkey seasons. Listen along as the guys talk about steps involved that hunters should take note of in order to get ready for Iowa turkey hunting seasons. Turkey hunting is […]

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Bowhunting Equipment 101 – Podcast

On this episode Dan chats with the owner of the Iowa Outdoors Store, Aaron McKinney. Since it is never to early to talk about whitetail hunting the guys get into a discussion about archery equipment and what a person needs to keep in mind when preparing to take the plunge of purchasing new equipment. Then […]

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Shot Placement Guide For Bowhunting Turkeys

Shot Placement Guide For Bowhunting Turkeys When using a bow to hunt turkeys, many different shots and angles will present themselves. To make a clean ethical kill a hunter must know where to aim on the turkey at any given moment. While a turkey looks to be a decent sized target to hit, it isn’t. […]

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In-Season Scouting: Finding and Analyzing Turkey Sign

In-Season Scouting: Finding and Analyzing Turkey Sign Turkeys, much like any game animal, will leave behind signs as they carry out their daily routines. As hunters, these signs are important to us because they help to determine roosting areas, feeding areas, strut zones, and daily patterns…all key components in the grand scheme of tagging a […]

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Find Your Pattern

Patterning your turkey gun is an important part of turkey hunting that sometimes is an after thought to many hunters. Having a finely patterned gun, especially at long-range shots of 40 yards can be the difference of placing a tag on a bird or watching it run away from you. Use these tips provided to […]

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The Iowa Sportsman Podcast – Turn Deer Hunting Failures Into Successes!

Listen in as Dan talks with Noel Gandy about taking failures from past deer hunting seasons and how to turn those into successes in future seasons. In the world of whitetail hunting nothing goes according to plan 100% of the time. Mistakes, goofs, and failures are inevitable…that is about the only thing you can count […]

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Making Deer Jerky 101 – Podcast

Welcome to another episode of The Iowa Sportsman Podcast! Join Dan Johnson on this episode as he interviews Dan Turner about the steps involved in making his favorite deer jerky recipe. Included in the episode is a step by step process from meat preparation to the final product. Dan then gets into the specifics of […]

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