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October Preferred Foods and Hunting Strategies: Whitetails 365

October Preferred Foods and Hunting Strategies: Whitetails 365 The time that most of us have all been waiting for is finally upon us: Deer Season 2022! While our state’s youth have been able to be in the field for the last couple of weeks of September the rest of us have been biding our time. […]

Iowa Deer Hunting Forecast 2022-23

Iowa Deer Hunting Forecast 2022-23 Opening day of the 2022/2023 deer season; whether you’re a bowhunter or not, this is the day that every deer hunter across Iowa has been waiting for, October 1. With the arrival of deer season, comes some important questions to ask yourself. What will this year’s deer season bring? Where […]

Archery Accessories for Bowhunters from 2022

Archery Accessories for Iowa Bowhunters from 2022 Some Iowans are fortunate enough to shoot archery throughout the year at summer 3D shoots, spring toms, or summer bow fishing. The most popular and most exciting reason to shoot your bow is almost upon us: Iowa’s deer bow season. A lot of hunters browse stores starting this […]

Hunting Early Season Pheasants

Hunting Early Season Pheasants October is finally here and for pheasant hunters, that means Iowa’s pheasant season will soon open. We know from survey results that last year’s pheasant hunting was phenomenal. In fact, hunters harvested more pheasants last year than any year in the last decade. We want this year to be just as […]

Duck Hunting Small Rivers

Duck Hunting Small Rivers Hunting ducks on smaller moving waters is less common in Iowa than one might think. How you define a smaller river is objective and really can be anything from a reasonable stream to something like the Des Moines River in the northern half of the state. What comes to my mind […]

A Smart Start to Deer Season

A Smart Start to Deer Season As deer season quickly approaches, it catches most of us by surprise every year. We generally are busy with summer vacations, kids, families, weddings, and by the time youth season or opening day of Iowa’s archery season opens up, we are behind scrambling to get “ready enough” for the […]

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Manipulating A Deer’s Nose: Whitetails 365: 

Manipulating A Deer’s Nose: Whitetails 365:  On September 10, 2021 I was stuck in the office on a beautiful, bluebird day. All I wanted to do was get outside and do some deer hunting prep. After deciding I couldn’t take it any longer, I closed up shop early and headed towards a particular hunting property […]

Isolating Your Target Buck

Isolating Your Target Buck I’ll never forget that first picture of him. The buck that made my mind race and my heart skip a beat. You see, over the years that I’ve been deer hunting, I had set some lofty goals of deer that I would like to harvest in my life time. When it […]

Fishing for September Walleye

Fishing for September Walleye What’s the most popular freshwater fish for the table? That will vary according to where you live. In the South, crappie and catfish vie for the honors. But throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, the walleye reigns supreme. Chasing after these fish can be a challenge. In the spring, they are […]