Whitetail

Summer Deer Season Preparation

Summer Deer Season Preparation By Aaron McKinney It’s July and for bowhunters all across the state they will begin patterning summer deer and making plans for the upcoming bow season, youth season and early muzzleloader season. If you are like me, keeping low pressure on your hunting area is always a top priority. Mature deer […]

Whitetails 365: Strategizing with Trail Cameras

Whitetails 365: Strategizing with Trail Cameras By Noel Gandy 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 […]

5 Steps for an Easy DIY European Mount

5 Steps for an Easy DIY European Mount By Jessica Graham As a native Iowan I am reminded how blessed I am every October when I begin pursuing whitetails in a state notorious for producing trophy class deer. Once the hunt is over, when we have harvested a mature buck, we seek a way to […]

Dutch Oven Campfire Cooking

Dutch Oven Campfire Cooking By Ryan Graden 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 […]

Hanging Out In Iowa: Hammock Camping in the Hawkeye State

Hanging Out In Iowa: Hammock Camping in the Hawkeye State By Rod and Laura Woten It doesn’t seem to matter where we camp, our hammock setup always seems to be the talk of the campground. If we had a nickel for every person that stops by and asks to check out the hammocks that Laura […]

Whitetails 365: Maintaining Clover Food Plots

Whitetails 365: Maintaining Clover Food Plots By Jessica Graham 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 […]

Whitetails 365: Please and Thank You

Whitetails 365: Please and Thank You By Noel Gandy 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 […]

Did I Miss Him?

Did I Miss Him? By Bailey Dodd 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 […]

5 Tips for Planning a Top-Notch Food Plot

5 Tips for Planning a Top-Notch Food Plot By Jessica Graham Over the past decade, hunters across the state have keyed into one of the best ways to attract neighboring deer to their hunting location—food plots. Food plots require some planning and physical work to make them successful. Utilize these five tips while planning your […]

Leasing Hunting Rights Landlord or Tenant

Leasing Hunting Rights Landlord or Tenant By Dave Wessling Each year millions of people look to hunt and fish throughout the Midwest. Not all of them have free access to private land or public land and wish to pursue a lease on private land. That can work well for landowners as leasing property to individuals […]

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