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Wingshooting: Improving Success on Tough Shots

Wingshooting: Improving Success on Tough Shots In a world of wingshooting perfection, our gun barrels would meet their mark despite all odds and unfavorable shooting scenarios. Every pull of the trigger is a direct and focused payload that undoubtedly hits where intended. A limit of birds always equals the number of shells spent. You may […]

A Flight of Passage!

A Flight of Passage! It starts with a change. That first real bite of cold in early fall when the leaves have barely started to turn and daylight periods grow shorter. It isn’t a rapid change, but more of a coaxing that sends those first early migrants on their southward journey. Waterfowlers sense this as […]

2019 Roadside Survey – Podcast

Welcome to another episode of The Iowa Sportsman Podcast! On this episode Dan is joined by Steve Weisman to discuss the 2019 August Roadside Survey. Every August the Iowa Department DNR conducts a roadside survey drive of 6,540 miles gathering population data for species such as pheasants, quail, partridge and rabbits. This information is tallied […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Rooster Recap

Rooster Recap How rare is it in your life when you wake up knowing that the day ahead of you is about to be so special that you will remember it for the rest of your life? And how rare is it that there will be someone else there that will share those same memories […]

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