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Strategizing with Trail Cameras: Whitetails 365
Strategizing with Trail Cameras: Whitetails 365 The phrase “here he comes again” was a common displeasured utterance at my local Walmart photography department during my youth. Trail cameras that housed 35mm cameras were becoming all the rage and my brother and I had collectively received a unit for Christmas. We’d load the camera up with […]
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Dutch Oven Campfire Cooking
Dutch Oven Campfire Cooking Camping season is upon us and it’s time to think of what you’re going to eat. Sure, you could do the easy stuff like cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and roast a hotdog over the fire for dinner. But why not try something a little better? Who wouldn’t like a […]
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Maintaining Clover Food Plots: Whitetails 365
Maintaining Clover Food Plots: Whitetails 365 From my hunting stand, I watched the 11-point buck bedded down in the clover field through my binoculars. Thanks to the establishment of clover on our small property, my husband and I were able to hold and attract neighboring deer to our place, and in this case, we had […]
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Whitetails 365: Please and Thank You
Whitetails 365: Please and Thank You I recently had a conversation with a good friend where he said he’d sure like to hunt a particular block of timber. I asked if he had sought permission to hunt said timber to which he replied, “No.” When I questioned as to why there was not a good […]
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Did I Miss Him?
Did I Miss Him? Most people might think that middle schoolers can’t or don’t learn from their mistakes. From my experience, there are many lessons to be learned from hunting. My name is Bailey Dodd. I’m a 13-year-old girl, in 8th grade. I have been hunting, trapping, and fishing with my Dad since I was […]
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Optimal PH Levels for Food Plots: Whitetails 365
Optimal PH Levels for Food Plots: Whitetails 365 When I was a teenager, I set out on a quest to harvest my first archery deer. My Dad set a treestand up just north of the cornfield on our farm. My plan was to position myself between the deer coming out of the cedar bedding area […]
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Digital Hunting Maps And How To Use Them
Digital Hunting Maps And How To Use Them It’s crazy to think back ten to fifteen years ago and relive the days when a very important tool for me in terms of hunting was a hard copy of the Iowa Sportsman’s Atlas. I still have that Atlas somewhere tucked away in storage, full of highlighter […]
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How Not To Shed Hunt
How Not To Shed Hunt I once heard a sports radio host ask the question, “Would it be easier to fill out a March Madness bracket by selecting the teams you think will lose instead of the teams you think will win?”He had an interesting hypothesis that still has yet to yield me any major […]
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Utilizing Frost Seeding For Clover Food Plots: Whitetails 365
Utilizing Frost Seeding For Clover Food Plots: Whitetails 365 As spring approaches hunters begin to plan and strategize over food plots. One staple that should be included in your food plot tactic is clover. Clover is one of the best perennial food sources for deer, and offers birds prime habitat as well. It is beneficial […]
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Searching for White Gold: Whitetails 365
Searching for White Gold: Whitetails 365 November 4, 2021 was a pretty special day in the deer woods for me. Early that morning I had the pleasure of filming one of my best friends take his biggest buck to date: a 180” Southwest Iowa monarch that he had been chasing for two years. While on […]
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