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In the August 2026 Issue of the Iowa Sportsman
- 7 Ways to Make the Most out of Camping
- October Bowhunting in Iowa
- Fall Walleye Tips & Tricks
- Bug Bites & The Great Outdoors
- Hunting Scrapes & Rublines
- The Way to a Buck’s Heart is Through His Stomach
- August Bass Fishing
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Wild Edible Foraging
Wild Edible Foraging With the arrival of spring comes many long-awaited activities for any outdoors enthusiast, like hiking, fishing, and turkey hunting. There is another short-lived activity that gets some of us out wandering around in nature. This is the adult version of an Easter egg hunt, and it’s called foraging. Foraging for wild edibles […]
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Artifact Hunting in Iowa
Artifact Hunting in Iowa I will admit, in high school, one of my least favorite subjects was history class. I’m not sure what rubbed me so wrong in those years, but something has changed since then. As I grew older, I think I realized how much history could help people shape the future. Knowing our […]
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Summer Work That Pays Off in Bow Season
Summer Work That Pays Off in Bow Season Early mornings in the turkey woods are beginning to give way to graduation celebrations, long afternoons on the lawn mower, gardens, and ball parks for yours truly. I would like to think that this “season” of life that falls between springtime gobblers and fall whitetails would be […]
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Perfecting Your Turkey Setup
Perfecting Your Turkey Setup There is nothing more exciting than enjoying an early Iowa morning, watching the timber wakeup, only to be interrupted by thundering sound of tom. However, when the moment of truth arrives and a tom finally steps into range, your shooting setup becomes just as important as anything else you have done […]
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Featured Story
Big Buck Profile: The 2025 Gandy Buck
Ok, this first big buck profile is a little self-serving in that it is of a buck that I personally took this past deer season. While it is likely not the “biggest” big buck that we will profile this year it is definitely one of my most special deer ever.
Turning a Dream into Reality
As has been noted in several articles since 2023, my family and I finally put together the means to purchase our very own piece of Iowa ground. “The 32,” as we call it, has become a passion project to see if we could take an unassuming piece of real estate and harvest a mature deer from there by giving him all he needs in the way of habitat. This year was the first year that the farm would be huntable in the state in which we intended due to construction projects over the past couple of seasons.
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