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5 Tips for Planning a Top-Notch Food Plot
5 Tips for Planning a Top-Notch Food Plot By Jessica Graham Over the past decade, hunters across the state have keyed into one of the best ways to attract neighboring deer to their hunting location—food plots. Food plots require some planning and physical work to make them successful. Utilize these five tips while planning your […]
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Leasing Hunting Rights Landlord or Tenant
Leasing Hunting Rights Landlord or Tenant By Dave Wessling Each year millions of people look to hunt and fish throughout the Midwest. Not all of them have free access to private land or public land and wish to pursue a lease on private land. That can work well for landowners as leasing property to individuals […]
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Traits of a Consistent Beard Collector
Traits of a Consistent Beard Collector By Earl Taylor I love turkey hunting. It will be part of my Spring routine until I can’t walk and when my trigger finger is too weak to set off a shell. Turkey hunting is the one hunt that a kid or an octogenarian can hunt with success regularly; […]
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Bowhunting 101
Bowhunting 101 By Ryan Graden So you’re wanting to give this a try? That’s great! You won’t regret it. However, I will issue the warning now. Be ready for a rollercoaster of emotions. Not to mention a commitment of time, money, and energy. Will it be worth it? YES! I’ve never met a person who […]
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Conquering Common Coyote Hunting Scenarios
Conquering Common Coyote Hunting Scenarios By Troy Hoepker A coyote’s notorious ability for escaping trouble is somewhat legendary and if you hunt them very long at all you’ll witness their gifted talent over and over. But the more experience you get at seeing coyotes approach and knowing their habits, the less they will escape. Whether […]
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Pro’s and Con’s Of Different Turkey Hunting Methods
Pro’s and Con’s Of Different Turkey Hunting Methods By Billy Pryor When Spring Turkey season comes around, you may be lost in the many styles or tactics of a midwestern turkey hunt. You might be the traditional turkey hunter with the old fashioned roots, who sits with their back against a sturdy oak tree and […]
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Patience Paid Off!
Patience Paid Off! By Cassie Dean It was October 19th… I pulled up to the field late for an evening hunt. The beans were harvested, the wind was right and the deer were moving. I had been waiting all week for this hunt! I was thinking of all the bucks on my hit list: tall […]
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
A Trip Down Memory Lane By Steve Weisman In late September, my wife and I traveled to her hometown of Redfield, SD for her 50th year class reunion. The kids of ’69 were now in their late 60s, and as a friend of mine and I watched the Redfield homecoming parade, we cheered as the […]
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The Warren Holder Buck
The Warren Holder Buck – I Won the Battle, but He Still Won the War! As told by Warren Holder The story of this deer begins in the summer of 2015. We had just acquired a new piece of property. As usual with any piece of ground we acquire we start by putting trail cameras […]
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Hunting the Coyote Rut
Hunting the Coyote Rut By Troy Hoepker Only the pleasing sound of loose gravel under the tires of my ¾ ton could be heard as I slowly rolled up the lonely gravel road by one of my hunting spots. Darkness was slowly losing its struggle to grip the landscape as I stopped to glass a […]
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