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Elevating Food Plots with Frost Seeded Clover and Alfalfa

Elevating Food Plots with Frost Seeded Clover and Alfalfa Clover and alfalfa are both excellent choices for deer and other wildlife. Clover and alfalfa are cool-season legumes that grow well during cool soil seasons, like spring and fall, and also thrives in the summer. They are one of the best perennial food sources for deer […]

A Season to Remember: 2023 Deer Season

A Season to Remember: 2023 Deer Season A cold front was moving in, during the first weekend of Iowa’s bow season, and I was excited to hunt with my Dad overlooking an alfalfa field. I just noticed six does about 150 yards away. About the time I saw them, they bolted right towards my Dad […]

What Now?

What Now? The old saying, ”Time flies when you’re having fun,” is certainly true when it goes to the Iowa whitetail season. Hunters who were once budding with anticipation for the October 1st opener are now left asking themselves, “Where did the time go?” For the passionate deer hunter there can be an empty feeling […]

The Versatility of Retrieving Gun Dogs

The Versatility of Retrieving Gun Dogs Roughly twenty-five years ago, I made a sales pitch to my parents, asking them if I could purchase a Labrador. To my surprise, they gave me the green light with the condition that I: find a trusted breeder, pay for the dog, and take full responsibility for training the […]

How ATVs and UTVs Revolutionize Food Plots

How ATVs and UTVs Revolutionize Food Plots Ask any private-land hunter about the most used tool, there will be several different answers, but without a doubt, an ATV or UTV will be at the top of the list and for a good reason. They are so versatile, and can be used for a myriad of […]

Supplemental Strategies for Antler Development: Whitetails 365

Supplemental Strategies for Antler Development: Whitetails 365 We’re going to head away from January and get ready to enter February. In Iowa, the temperatures can be pretty low, ice and snow storms are still popping up, and can have a detrimental impact on the survival of deer in Iowa. Deer rely on their fat reserves […]

Youth Deer Hunting – A Father/Daughter Perspective

Youth Deer Hunting – A Father/Daughter Perspective Many of our family’s greatest memories are made in the outdoors. For as long as they can remember, my daughters have watched me prepare to go and return from hunting, and occasionally bring home wild game. About five years ago, my oldest daughter, Hope, asked if she could […]

February Coyote Calling

February Coyote Calling When the calendar flips to November bowhunters in Iowa feel the magic in the air of the whitetail breeding season kicking into full swing. The majestic bucks that dreams are made of seem to be everywhere. For coyote hunters that magical time of year is late January into February. It means coyotes […]

Welcome to Late Season Turkey Hunting

Welcome to Late Season Turkey Hunting Looking back on the recent past it seemed like the winter of 2018/2019 would never end. Winter days were frigid and the snow never seemed to melt. But, alas, April came and it was time to honor one of the age old traditions of spring: turkey hunting! Although there […]

Whitetails 365: Food, Stands, Habitat

Whitetails 365: Food, Stands, Habitat Last month I told you, the hunter/landowner, that if you concentrate on food, stand locations, and habitat that you would be well on your way to creating your own incredible whitetail hunting farm. These are what I call the big three in hunting farms. Provide all three and do it […]

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