Whitetail

Whitetails 365: Optimal PH Levels for Optimal Food Plots

Whitetails 365: Optimal PH Levels for Optimal Food Plots By Jessica Graham 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 […]

Digital Hunting Maps And How To Use Them

Digital Hunting Maps And How To Use Them By Nick Johnson 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, […]

12 Reasons Why You Didn’t Tag A Mature Buck This Year

12 Reasons Why You Didn’t Tag A Mature Buck This Year By Ricky Kinder In order to tag a mature buck year after year you need some luck on your side, but the hunters who consistently put a tag on an Iowa giant don’t rely on luck. Instead they rely on not making mistakes or […]

Whitetails 365: Utilizing Frost Seeding For Clover Food Plots

Whitetails 365: Utilizing Frost Seeding For Clover Food Plots By Jessica Graham 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. […]

How Not To Shed Hunt

How Not To Shed Hunt By Kent Boucher 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 […]

Deer Management

Deer Management By Ricky Kinder If you are an archery hunter please raise your hand if you agree to the following question: Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have 1,500 acres of vast pristine whitetail habitat to hunt in Iowa? While I obviously can’t see the hands going up I could imagine most of you have […]

Sportsman’s New Year’s Resolutions

Sportsman’s New Year’s Resolutions By Gary Faith Many peoples New Year’s resolutions have to do with self-improvement. They deal with wanting to be better at work, save more money, or maybe get in better shape. Myself, I tend to make everything into, how can i improve my odds of hunting more? This form of self-improvement […]

Hunting the 11th Hour

Hunting the 11th Hour By Ryan Graden One of the hardest things for me to swallow is a “tag sandwich”. Would you agree? If you are like me, that’s just not something I like to deal with on a regular basis! So what do you do? What’s your move? What options do you have that […]

Locked Down But Not Out

Locked Down But Not Out By Noel Gandy As the old saying goes: The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and locked down bucks come November. Well, most of that saying is well-known, but in the whitetail world losing tabs on a bruiser buck during November is almost always a certainty. Deer hunting can […]

Keeping Your Dog Energized In The Field: Nutrition and Hydration

Keeping Your Dog Energized In The Field: Nutrition and Hydration By Ryan Eder It is that time of year again where we work as a team with our gun dogs and look forward to another year of bird hunting. Gun dogs are athletes. Like all athletes, a proper diet and right amount of hydration is […]

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