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Iowa Sportsman April 2025
This Issue Brings You:
- Thriving Bird Habitats in Iowa
- Fishing Iowa – Walleye Tackle & Tricks
- Whitetails 365 – Growing Giant Whitetails
- Maximizing Native Warm Season Grasses
- Turkey Seaso – Getting Youth Involved
- Equipment for Managing Your Own Acreage
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Maximizing Native Warm Season Grasses
By Kent Boucher If you are a fellow ‘90s kid, or raised kids in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s you probably remember the TV blaring out “He’s on fire!” when you or your kids were playing the classic video game ‘NBA Jam.’ Hearing that phrase in the context of watching one of my two […]
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Getting Youth Involved in Turkey Season
By Dave Hoffman Youth turkey season can be such a fun, exciting and rewarding experience. Here are some tips and tricks for a successful hunt. Get Them Involved Give the youth turkey calls to practice with and invite them to practice calling before season. A box call or push-button calls are simple and fairly […]
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Equipment for Managing Your Iowa Acreage
By Jessica Graham Growing up, many of us dreamed of owning a vast piece of Iowa land—somewhere with a pond, rich habitat, and plenty of wild game. I wanted to be able to hunt as much as possible and own my own piece of ground. These days, with land prices skyrocketing, those dreams have shifted […]
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Cabin Fever: Ideas to get Outdoors in Winter
Cabin Fever: Ideas to get Outdoors in Winter By Nick Johnson The winter is far from over and Cabin Fever has begun to set in for many who enjoy the outdoors. Aside from shoveling snow and jaunts to work, kid’s events or the store, the feeling of being cooped up tugs at the boredom strings […]
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Featured Story
10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes
Why do top notch hunters shoot quality mature deer year after year? Sure they scout, don’t shoot young bucks, maintain their land, pay attention to the wind, plant food plots, are in big buck country, ect. Yes all of those and many more reasons can attribute to better chances of shooting bigger bucks consistently. However do you know the most important reason why people shoot big deer year after year? Because they place their stands in locations where big bucks like to frequent…it really is that simple. They are in the right place at the right time. You will never consistently shoot mature deer if you are not putting your tree stands in the proper locations.
Whitetails are creatures of habit and instinct, they do everything for a purpose and that is actually a good thing for us hunters. If we know what they like to do, what they don’t like to do, and how they navigate their day then we can key in on certain geographical locations on our properties and ambush an unsuspecting bruiser.
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