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In the September 2026 Issue of the Iowa Sportsman
- Hunting Iowa in October
- Budget VS Premium Hunting Scopes
- Train Your Dog for Waterfowl Season
- Places To See In Iowa This Fall
- The New Age of Trail Cameras
- Hunting Rubs & Scrapes
- Gearing Up for Dove Season
- CWD & EHD In Iowa
- Early Morning Hybrid Striped Bass
- Fall Iowa Fishing
- Hunting Iowa’s Early Seasons
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The Rise of Women Outdoors
The Rise of Women in the Outdoors When I first started hunting 25 years ago, the landscape for women in the outdoors was vastly different. For instance, you didn’t see a lot of girls hunting. It for sure wasn’t the “cool” thing to do, and you had to be ready to face a bunch of […]
READ MORECreate Fall Food Plots For 2024 Deer Season!
Create Fall Food Plots For 2024 Deer Season! Very few things in life bring me more peace and satisfaction than climbing into my tree stand to hunt over a fall food plot. Crafting the perfect fall plot can be both rewarding and challenging. There have been years where plots turn out lush and abundant with […]
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Paintballing Iowa
Paintballing Iowa When looking for some summer fun for your family or friends, it can’t get much better than a friendly or competitive game of paintball. Fortunately, around Iowa we have several different courses where you can take a group of friends or your family. Our Iowa courses are accommodating to new players, or competitive […]
READ MOREWhy Crate Training is a Good Thing
Why Crate Training is a Good Thing Dogs instinctively seek smaller, darker spaces as shelters. We can utilize this instinctive behavior in our puppies during the process of crate training. Even though our puppies have a predisposition to den, they will likely have some issues settling into their crate. Understandably though, right? First of all, […]
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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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