Iowa Sportsman

Small Property v.s. Large Property Yotes

Small Property v.s. Large Property Yotes By Troy Hoepker Something about the little 80-acre property just seemed promising. I had been given permission to hunt the piece of ground years before but never had until that day. That year the farmer had put part of the ground into preventative planting and the weeds sprung high […]

Jamie Brincks Buck Part III

Jamie Brincks Buck Part III By Jamie Brinck The form for Crazy 8 came in and Doug and I couldn’t wait to see how the hide fit. We did some alterations to the form but the size was perfect, FYI we own Brinck’s Taxidermy, he went together like a dream. Once we were done with […]

Advanced Mouth Calling Tactics For Coyotes

Advanced Mouth Calling Tactics For Coyotes By Troy Hoepker My partner’s Foxpro was on its second series of mournful rabbit distress calls, playing loudly to reach the ears of a coyote we hoped was home in this section full of CRP grasses and a wooded creek bed. We sat in a snow-covered terrace waiting patiently […]

Snow Goose Hunting Strategy – Podcast

Coyotes for Beginners

Coyotes for Beginners By Troy Hoepker For me, coyote hunting is about so many things that bring me joy. It’s following an abandon cattle trail to a little place only I know about where coyotes feel safe to visit. It’s the anticipation of what’s about to happen every time I place my lips around my […]

Field Vocabulary: The Commands we give our Dog

Field Vocabulary: The Commands we give our Dog By Ryan Eder It dawned on me a few weeks back that situations arise in the field where we begin asking our dogs to do things that we may not focus on during offseason training. I was out of my layout blind, running the dog on a […]

Ice Fishing Jigs

Ice Fishing Jigs By Ben Leal There is nothing more satisfying than creating something all on your own, taking it out and using it with success. Quite honestly folks, we could be talking just about anything. Farmers for example often create special tools out of necessity. At times the only one that knows about it […]

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