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Iowa Sportsman April 2025
This Issue Brings You:
- Chasing Spring Thunder: Turkey Hunting
- Maximize UTV & ATVs – On Your Acreage
- Whitetails 365 – Hunters Pre-Season Checklist
- Brea Bad Habits For Archery Success
- Fishing Iowa – Walleye Tackle & Tricks
- Shooting Corner: Safety Gear & Safe Practices
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Henry Repeating Arms Commits 100% of Its Operations to the State of Wisconsin
Henry Repeating Arms, one of America’s leading firearm manufacturers, is announcing a firm commitment to establishing 100% of its manufacturing operations in the state of Wisconsin. The commitment includes transferring all of its Bayonne, New Jersey manufacturing operations to its newly expanded state-of-the-art headquarters in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and two additional facilities in nearby Ladysmith, […]
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Preparing Your Boat for the Season
Preparing Your Boat for the Season By Todd Reed Hopefully the spring fishing season has treated you well here in the great state of Iowa. I have been out many times traveling through the state with a boat in tow. No matter if you have a 12-foot jon boat, or a 21-foot fiberglass boat, the […]
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Iowa’s State Parks
Iowa’s State Parks By Ryan Graden In the last 25 years of technological advancements, I have watched our culture advance at a tremendous pace that, I worry, will never slow down. Phones, computers, iPods, iPads, GPS, electric cars, automatic vacuums, auto lawnmowers, and more! We are certainly making things easier for our lifestyles, but we […]
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Whitetails 365: Protecting Grain Food Plots
Whitetails 365: Protecting Grain Food Plots By Tom Peplinski Why? Why would any hunter want to protect or fence off a food plot so that deer can’t get in? Sounds counter to every reason a hunter would plant a food plot to begin with. And while it’s absolutely true keeping deer from getting into your […]
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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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