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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Your Child's Premier Outing

Your Child’s Premier Outing

Your Child’s Premier Outing By Ryan Graden So the time is finally here! You’re thinking the kids are old enough to go on their first hunting or fishing trip. Or so you hope! Just remember, their first experience might make or break any future times in the timber. If it goes well, you can be […]

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Trail Camera Strategies for Big Buck Success Game Camera Strategies

Game Camera Strategies: Whitetails 365

Game Camera Strategies: Whitetails 365 Technology has transformed whitetail hunting. That’s probably an understatement. Go to any deer classic these days and the hunting industry is finding solutions to problems hunters never even knew they had. I laugh at the trinkets and gadgets we hunters will spend our hard-earned money on. With all these laughable […]

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Art of Persuasion

The Art of Persuasion: Deer Scents, Rattles, and Bleats 

The Art of Persuasion: Deer Scents, Rattles, and Bleats In the 80’s, my father and grandfather were “entry-level” deer hunters.  They had been invited to begin hunting a timber here in central Iowa that had a steady population of deer.  In their efforts to learn more regarding the tactics to use to fool a wise […]

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My Favorite Smallmouth Bass Techniques

My Favorite Smallmouth Bass Techniques

My Favorite Smallmouth Bass Techniques As a child growing up, my summer vacations were filled with fishing adventures, from the local lakes and creeks to our annual family vacation to Catch’N Fish resort on Big Bass Lake (seriously, that was the name of the place).  Early mornings in the pre-dawn hours, the dads would load […]

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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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The Iowa Sportsman website and magazine are Iowa’s only privately owned media sources catering to hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts here in Iowa. Simply put, we are unlike other Iowa outdoor media sources: All our staff is from Iowa, from our publisher to our writers. We actually follow through on what we advertise; we provide knowledgeable content from people who know the industry or sport discussed.