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Rattling In Iowa: When, Where, Why and How
By now you’ve spent countless hours scouting local hunting areas or parcels of land that you have permission to hunt. Add hours spent on the range honing your bow shooting skills along with fine tuning your routine of drawing the bow through the release. It’s time to get out and put all that time and […]
READ MORENovember- The Hunt is On!
November- The Hunt is On! Many hunters count the days each year till season opener. How many hours do you have invested in the season before its even open? Money spent? In habitat management alone, I spend a solid weekend every month on my farm outside of hunting season. That’s 2 or 3 days a […]
READ MOREBest Rut Tactics from Our Readers
The whitetail breeding season will soon be upon us and that equals a lot of excited hunters across the state of Iowa. In a time where hunting shows and the next big hunting celebrity seem to dominate views on hunting styles and tactics we wanted to give our readers some “real” knowledgeable information from people […]
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2019 Roadside Survey
Iowa’s pheasant population steady, quail down Iowa’s pheasant hunters should expect to find a similar number of birds as last year, with the exception of south central and southeast Iowa, where the pheasant population decline was more significant. Based on the August roadside survey, Iowa’s statewide average is 17 pheasants per 30 mile route, down […]
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Featured Story
Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports
I can still remember the day my mom told me we had to watch the next episode of “Buckmasters TV.” Being an oblivious five-year-old, you can only imagine how excited I was to see my picture pop up as their weekly winner of a FREE Buckmasters Daisy Model 840 BB gun. Bubba and Shotgun Red announced my name, and I was the proud new owner of my very first firearm.
I ran to meet the mail carrier every day to check for that long cardboard box. Watching “Buckmasters” with my parents fed my enthusiasm for the outdoors, but I was already obsessed with all things related to shooting at an early age. That BB gun gave me so much more than a tool to shoot targets with. It gave my parents an opportunity to teach me about gun safety. It gave me my first memories of being in the woods, tagging along with my dad and his .22 chasing squirrels and rabbits. It gave me another way to spend time with my younger sisters when they began to learn about gun safety. Most importantly, it sparked a lifelong love for hunting and target shooting.
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