Iowa Sportsman Atlas Valentine’s Special
Atlas Valentine's Special

Our Valentine’s Special pairs the Iowa Sportsman Atlas with a 1-year subscription to The Iowa Sportsman Magazine: a perfect match for anyone who’d rather be in the timber, on the water, or planning their next trip outdoors.

Our Valentine’s Special pairs the Iowa Sportsman Atlas with a 1-year subscription to The Iowa Sportsman Magazine: a perfect match for anyone who’d rather be in the timber, on the water, or planning their next trip outdoors.

Iowa Sportsman Atlas Valentine’s Special This Valentine’s Day, show a little love—to yourself or to the outdoors-obsessed someone special in your life—with a gift that actually gets used. Our Valentine’s Special pairs the Iowa Sportsman Atlas with a 1-year subscription to The Iowa Sportsman Magazine: a perfect match for anyone who’d rather be in the timber, on the water, or planning their next trip outdoors. Made by Iowa hunters and anglers for Iowa hunters and anglers, our magazine skips the flashy fluff and gets straight to what matters—real stories, real know-how, and real passion from people who live the same […]

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Iowa Sportsman Valentine's Special

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10 Tips for Iowa Rut Late Season Whitetails

Late Season Whitetails

Late Season Whitetails Time, as always, is fleeting. The time from deer season a year ago to opening day seemed to take forever. We waited with anticipation for October 1 to roll around after a long summer. Now, like a vapor, it is late December and deer season is fast closing in on its conclusion. […]

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2019 Roadside Survey

2019 Roadside Survey

Iowa’s pheasant population steady, quail down Iowa’s pheasant hunters should expect to find a similar number of birds as last year, with the exception of south central and southeast Iowa, where the pheasant population decline was more significant. Based on the August roadside survey, Iowa’s statewide average is 17 pheasants per 30 mile route, down […]

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Phasing Your Way Through the Iowa Rut

Phasing Your Way Through the Iowa Rut

Phasing Your Way Through the Iowa Rut November is a magical time for Iowa bowhunters. The early season buck routines are fading into an all-out crap shoot of big buck activity, where their focus is more about interactions with the does in an area and less on surviving their travels from bedding areas to food […]

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Key Lockdown Locations to Know

Key Lockdown Locations to Know

Key Lockdown Locations to Know Being in a treestand during the whitetail rut here in Iowa is what dreams are made of. Waiting for a hot doe to come trotting through with a big bruiser in tow is what all of us hope for each time we climb into the tree during this time of […]

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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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