Turkey

50 Ways to Utilize the Offseason
50 Ways to Utilize the Offseason If you are like me your favorite hunting season is when you feel most alive. Calling upon skills you haven’t used for a year, clearing your schedule of nearly all other responsibilities and breaking the gaze into the digital abyss are just a few of the rare indulgences we […]
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Gaining Access To Private Property
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Life of a Conservation Officer with Dan Henderson – Podcast
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For the Love of the Hunt
For the Love of the Hunt One of the most enjoyable parts of hunting pheasants is hunting with a good hunting dog. Without one, it’s like trying to find the proverbial “needle in a haystack,” especially when hunting some of the massive public hunting areas around here. Filled with lots of good habitat, I’ve often […]
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Improving Your Marksmanship
Improving Your Marksmanship As a bow hunter one of the things that I strive for is to take a shot that is accurate and will take my quarry down quickly. Invariably, like most hunters, I have an errant shot that doesn’t quite hit the mark. At times it is circumstances beyond my control, i.e., unseen […]
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What Iowa Public Land Has to offer
What Iowa Public Land Has to offer Public land is getting more and more attention in the outdoor space lately. At a total of 640 million acres of public land available inside the United States, one can start to understand why it has come to draw so much attention. When thinking of public lands, it’s […]
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30 Things Every Hunter Worth Their Salt Should Know How To Do
30 Things Every Hunter Worth Their Salt Should Know How To Do Sportsmen come from all walks of life: rich, poor, young, retired, self-inspired, or groomed into the lifestyle by those who came before us. It is safe to say that no two hunters have precisely the same tastes when it comes to what game […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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