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Late Season Whitetail Tag Out Tactics
Late Season Whitetail Tag Out Tactics By Sean Wuller – Land Specialist with United Country Trophy Properties & Auction for Iowa As the end of the Whitetail hunting season draws to an end here in Iowa, some of us still have some tags that are burning holes in our pockets. While sitting around at our […]
READ MOREPlaying Percentages Pays Off Calling Coyotes
Playing Percentages Pays Off Calling Coyotes The sea of blue-green sagebrush seemingly went on forever until it met the steep butte off in the distance and turned into a wall of rocky red earth mixed with grey and white lines of mineral deposits exposed by centuries of erosion. As I sat overlooking the huge landscape […]
READ MORELate Season Duck Hunting
Late Season Duck Hunting By Travis Mueller If you were to ask any seasoned waterfowler what his favorite time to hunts ducks would be, they’d probably tell you late. Well that leaves a lot to the imagination doesn’t it. Late could mean a lot of things. It could mean in the day, it could mean […]
READ MOREKey in on these Coyote Habits for Success this Year
Key in on these Coyote Habits for Success this Year By Troy Hoepker Coyotes are mysterious creatures certainly! The subject of folklore and myth, they represent the very epitome of stealth and sly. As secretive as they are however, they have routines and habits just like all animals that make them vulnerable to the hunter […]
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Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports
I can still remember the day my mom told me we had to watch the next episode of “Buckmasters TV.” Being an oblivious five-year-old, you can only imagine how excited I was to see my picture pop up as their weekly winner of a FREE Buckmasters Daisy Model 840 BB gun. Bubba and Shotgun Red announced my name, and I was the proud new owner of my very first firearm.
I ran to meet the mail carrier every day to check for that long cardboard box. Watching “Buckmasters” with my parents fed my enthusiasm for the outdoors, but I was already obsessed with all things related to shooting at an early age. That BB gun gave me so much more than a tool to shoot targets with. It gave my parents an opportunity to teach me about gun safety. It gave me my first memories of being in the woods, tagging along with my dad and his .22 chasing squirrels and rabbits. It gave me another way to spend time with my younger sisters when they began to learn about gun safety. Most importantly, it sparked a lifelong love for hunting and target shooting.
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