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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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Cooling Water Channel Cats
Catfishing during late summer and into fall can be some of the most amazing fishing of the year. It can also be one of the more head scratching times of the season. Why is it that some days can be so great and others so bad? To answer this question you first must understand how […]
READ MORECatfish in the Mainstream
By Brad Durick It is human nature to notice things that interest you. In the world of advertising this is called a hot button. You would not even raise an eyebrow to a radio ad about eye glasses unless you were in the market for a pair. You don’t notice that blue F-150 until you […]
READ MOREBank Poling for Cats
By Josh Bruegge It’s after dark and my friends and I have joined the creatures of the night. Our simple camp is set up on a sandbar and my friends are shining our spotlight up and down the banks of the river, hoping to spy the movement of a PVC pole bouncing frantically. A quick […]
READ MOREGold On Ice: Tactics for Winter Carp
By: Nick Johnson Pound for pound, not many North American fish in fresh water fight harder than the Common Carp. There is no question that many, if not most of our bodies of water in the state contain them and plenty of anglers have had their hardware tested by the brute fight of one of […]
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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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