Hunting

Reasons why you won’t Harvest a Turkey this Year

Reasons why you won’t Harvest a Turkey this Year By Ryan Graden I’m already playing the hunt over and over in my mind. Knowing that in a few short months, I will be back in the timbers coaxing a big Iowa Eastern steadily towards me as he continues to thunder his call over and over […]

Planning the Year’s Food Plot

Planning the Year’s Food Plot By Tim Peplinski Introduction- I guess there may be other reasons to plant a food plot. It’s fun. When done right they look really good and make for good pictures to send to your buddies. They build our confidence and give us something to do outside of hunting season. But […]

Whitetails 365: Year Round Management for a Thriving Deer Season in 2024

Whitetails 365: Year Round Management for a Thriving Deer Season in 2024 By Aaron McKinney In May, a lot of Iowa Sportsmen shift their focus from deer to turkey and fishing. However, for some of us, we are always planning and doing what we can for the upcoming deer season. There are some things you […]

3 Spring Mushrooms to Forage in Iowa

3 Spring Mushrooms to Forage in Iowa By Jessica Graham When spring rolls around and temperatures start increasing, Iowa foragers become excited knowing that soon spring mushrooms will be popping up in our Iowa timbers. Here are a few you may expect to see: Morels One of the first mushrooms to begin growing in Iowa […]

Getting Youth Involved in Turkey Hunting

Getting Youth Involved in Turkey Hunting By Jessica Graham I remember sitting in the timber, listening to the song birds wake up and the first gobbles begin. At this time, I was a young hunter, and I just was so excited to get to hunt or to tag along with my dad or uncles turkey […]

A Practical Plan to Purchasing Iowa Recreational Ground

A Practical Plan to Purchasing Iowa Recreational Ground By Jessica Graham If you’re an Iowa outdoorsman, you have probably dreamed of owning your own land, a piece you can call your own. A place to cast a line, blaze a trail, or just sit under the stars and connect with our creator and nature. We […]

10 Common Mistakes New Coyote Hunters Make

10 Common Mistakes New Coyote Hunters Make By Troy Hoepker When my publisher Patrick presented to me the idea of doing an article about the most common mistakes a rookie coyote caller might make, I started doing a lot of thinking about all the mistakes I’ve made hunting coyotes over the years. That’s when I […]

Shed Hunting: Improve Your Skills and Find More Done!

Shed Hunting: Improve Your Skills and Find More Done! By Gary Parsons The bows and firearms have been stowed for the year and the whitetails that made it through another season of bullets and arrows can rest easy for nine months. However, for us whitetail hunters it is going to be a long agonizing nine […]

Capturing a Picture of your Trophy

Capturing a Picture of your Trophy By Aaron Stonehocker Landing the lunker or blood tracking your biggest deer yet to its final resting point is about as good as it gets for the sportsman. These moments turn your average day fishing or hunting into a day worthy of a chapter in “Chicken Soup for the […]

Hand-Calling Coyotes: Become The Hunted!

Hand-Calling Coyotes: Become the Hunted! By Troy Hoepker Once upon a time, some prehistoric ancestor of ours somewhere figured out that if he pulled a blade of grass, stuck it between his lips and blew, he could squeak up one those invincible ghosts called a coyote. Without a smart phone handy to share his success […]

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