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Iowa Sportsman February 2025
This Issue Brings You:
- Owning the Night – Night Vision Tips
- Fishing Iowa – Upgrading Rods & Reels
- Whitetails 365 – Planning Your Deer Food Plot
- Shooting Corner – Target Shooting Must Haves!
- County Spotlight – Iowa’s Winter Wonderland Adventures
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The Concept of Hunt Plots
Three years ago I stumbled across an article in a hunting and fishing magazine that was talking about “Hunt Plots”. I immediately asked myself what the heck was a hunt plot? So I read the article and deemed it useful and from that moment on I have been implementing hunt plots on our family farm […]
READ MORET.W. MENCK GUNSMITH ONLINE LIQUIDATION AUCTION
Bidding Starts: June 11, 2018 12:00PM Auction Dates: June 11 – Jul 08, 2018 at 5:00PM Pick-Up Dates: Jul 10, 2018 from 3:00PM-6:00PM WELL-KNOWN GUNSMITH, MACHINIST, & ARTIST, THOMAS W. MENCK HAS RETIRED The small engine shop next door has purchased the business and is liquidating all contents and intellectual property of this small shop […]
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It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Little did 14-year old Dalton Christoffer, a freshman at Estherville Lincoln Central in northwest Iowa, know when he headed for northeast Iowa to participate in the youth dear season that a trophy buck just might be in the picture. He was pretty sure that he’d have a chance at a nice buck. After all two […]
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Back to the Basics: New Gear Gives You No Guarantees
It seems like only yesterday my father and I were making a trip to Cabela’s in Owatonna, Minnesota to check out hunting gear. I was twelve or thirteen and had been planning my first deer hunt for a while through hours of watching and learning everything I could from the hunting channels we had on […]
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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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