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Iowa Sportsman November 2024
This Issue Brings You:
- Expert advice for Bowhunting November
- Ice Fishing Must-Haves
- Make the Most out of Pheasant Season 2024
- Prepping for All-Day November Bowhunting
- Basic Trapping Tactics
- Must-Have Equipment and Accessories
- Get Your Gun Sighted in for Deer Season
- Whitetails 365: 2024 Rut Forecast
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Big Timber Toms
Big Timber Toms By Ryan Graden As has been my normal routine these last 10 years of turkey hunting, I drive my car out to the edge of the timber that has become my home away from home. It’s about forty-five minutes before sunup and I have my travel cup of coffee in hand. My […]
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Hand-Calling Coyotes: Become The Hunted!
Hand-Calling Coyotes: Become The Hunted! By Troy Hoepker Once upon a time, some prehistoric ancestor of ours somewhere figured out that if he pulled a blade of grass, stuck it between his lips and blew, he could squeak up one those invincible ghosts called a coyote. Without a smart phone handy to share his success […]
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Shed Hunting
Shed Hunting By Dan Johnson It’s March, and for me that only means one thing in terms of whitetail hunting… Shed hunting! Let me yell it one more time from the mountain top so you can get a good idea of how much I love this activity… SHED HUNTING! I don’t know what it is […]
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The 5 W’s of Hunting Shed Antlers
The 5 W’s of Hunting Shed Antlers By Aaron Stonehocker Well that’s a wrap. The hunger games between man and the antlered beasts of the timber have come to a close. For many hunters, a nice trophy set of antlers will be boasted upon their return from the taxidermist. For others, the tears of agony […]
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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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