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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 […]

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 […]

First Season Turkey Success

If you have ever spent the morning listening to a bird fire off on the roost then turkey fever is probably at its peak. While the anticipation builds there is only so much that reading articles and watching hunting shows can cure. This is the perfect time to make sure you help lean the odds […]

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 bird. Visually scouting turkeys is sometimes difficult […]

The Iowa Sportsman Turkey Gear Wish List

If you are a turkey hunter then chances are you love all the gear that goes along with it. Personally I have more gear than I know what to do with, but every year something new comes out that I can’t live without…I am sure the thousands of other turkey hunters out there no exactly […]

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 […]

Turkey Taking Tips: From some “Not-so-Pro” Hunters!

Turkey Taking Tips: From some “Not-so-Pro” Hunters! There are a lot of “give-Me’s” the creator worked into our daily lives. The sun always rises. The sun always sets. Spring heats up to Summer, mellows out to Fall, cools off to Winter, before warming back up to Spring again. There are thousands of examples of things […]

Find Your Pattern

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 […]

Find Your Pattern

Iowa’s Wild Mushrooms 101 – Podcast

Welcome to another episode of The Iowa Sportsman Podcast! On this episode we are joined by returning guest Dan Turner to discuss wild mushrooms in Iowa. While the morel reigns king of the Iowa mushrooms, Dan goes over all of the different varieties you can find, where and when to find them along with specific […]

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