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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Reflecting on a Productive Season

Reflecting on a Productive Season

Reflecting on a Productive Season The time of year and season that we all longed for not so long ago has now come and gone in what has seemed like the blink of an eye. Deer season 2025-2026 is, for all intents and purposes, a wrap. So much can be said for what many would […]

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Five Tips to Find More Antlers

Five Easy Tips to Find More Antlers

Five Easy Tips to Find More Antlers The hunting season might be over, but the real fun in the woods is just beginning if you ask me. If you’ve never tried shed hunting, you’re missing out on a serious adventure. It’s like a treasure hunt in the woods. It’s also one of the best ways […]

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Iowa's Hunting Preserves

Iowa’s Hunting and Shooting Preserves 

Iowa’s Hunting and Shooting Preserves  I can vividly recall my first trip to an upland hunting preserve in 2012. It wasn’t just a simple work outing; it was a retreat I took with a few work colleagues. To prime our minds and sharpen our reflexes, we kicked things off with a couple of rounds of […]

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Midwest Show Season Iowa Sportsman Humor

Midwest Show Season

Midwest Show Season  As the late winter chill keeps us mostly indoors, sportsmen across the Midwest begin planning for the warmth of the upcoming spring and summer seasons. This transitional period is the perfect time to get out of the house and visit local shows and expos. These events are essential for getting new ideas, […]

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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.