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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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Mobile Ice Strategies to Plan, Locate and Stay on Fish

Mobile Ice Strategies to Plan, Locate and Stay on Fish By Nick Johnson During the hardwater season, finding fish can be one thing, staying on them as they transition throughout the day is a whole other beast. Each species can be different in this pattern and it pays to burn some gas, battery or muscle, […]

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A Boy’s First Turkey With Dad

A Boy’s First Turkey With Dad As we wait patiently for the leaves to bud out and the grass to green up, anticipation grows for spring turkey hunting just around the corner! What better way to tide you over in the meantime then to read of two young boys shooting their first turkeys? Let’s go […]

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Taking Inventory

Taking Inventory By Dan Johnson This time of year a hint of depression usually sets in. Not only because it’s the dead of winter, but the hunting season is over and until the end of the month it’s still too early to go shed hunting. By now, I have already scouted my properties looking for […]

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Hunting The Rut Scenarios

Hunting The Rut Scenarios By Ricky Kinder Lockdown Scenario It is November 16th and the past few days of hunting have been slow as far as mature and adolescent buck movement goes. Nevertheless it is still the rut and you are not going to let any moment to hunt pass you by. As you get […]

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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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