Whitetail

Camping: Plan around your Families Wants and Needs

Camping: Plan around your Families Wants and Needs By Earl Taylor When Moses headed into the wilderness, he was told to take just his staff and the bare necessities with him; God told him that He would provide. Moses ate manna, quail and had water gushing from a rock. Pretty good first camping experience if […]

To Lease or not to Lease

To Lease or not to Lease By Earl Taylor I had parked at the gate and walked across the picked corn field in the dark. I set up my stand and was ready for first light. This was the first time hunting from this bottleneck and I was hopeful. I was hoping to see deer, […]

Don’t Spook Deer Before the Hunt Starts!

Don’t Spook Deer Before the Hunt Starts! By Dan Johnson Right now a majority of you probably have your trail cameras out capturing the velvet rut and taking inventory of the bucks you will be hunting in the fall. Some of you have may have already been out in the timber scouting the properties you […]

Small Tracts Can Yield Big Racks

Small Tracts Can Yield Big Racks By Kevin Sturm Small farm owners are faced with a constant juggling act of income vs. habitat. In most cases, there has to be a happy medium of both to make a small farm work, not only from the checkbook stand point but also by what is hanging on […]

Improve your 3D Shooting Skills

Improve your 3D Shooting Skills By Jeremy Adams Binoculars Make sure you have a good set binoculars. By having a good pair of binoculars, with good light transmission, it will help you see the scoring rings on the target, especially if it is a black target like a bear or javalina. Seeing the target can […]

Early Season Whitetail Scenarios: What Would You Do?

Early Season Whitetail Scenarios: What Would You Do? Situation #1: The Curveball – A group of bucks changes their trail routine just as the season opens. Early season scouting has shown a group of three bucks that bed on a hillside above a clover food plot. Every evening, like clockwork they filter down through a […]

A Bowhunters’ Backpack: Don’t Leave Home Without These Items!

A Bowhunters’ Backpack: Don’t Leave Home Without These Items! By Shawn and Kristi O’Connor  Louis Pasteur, the brilliant 19th century French chemist and inventor of pasteurization, coined the phrase, “fortune favors the prepared mind.”    What does that have to do with a bowhunters backpack?    Well, lets just say I spent a good number […]

Figuring Out Food Plots For Whitetails! – Podcast

Sold: Gun Auction 101

Sold: Gun Auction 101 By Troy Hoepker As the auctioneer yelled “SOLD!” another gun was crossed off the list that had went too high for my blood. There had been several of those already and I was beginning to wonder if any of these firearms would fetch a price that I was comfortable with? An […]

Carry Ammo: Choose Wisely and Shoot what you choose!

Carry Ammo: Choose Wisely and Shoot what you choose! By Michael Ware Since the change from “May Issue” Iowa weapons permits back in 2010 we’ve seen a monster uptick in the number of people attaining their Permit to Carry here in Iowa. At the time the “Shall Issue” law passed Iowa hovered around 37,000 permit […]