Pheasant

Make The Most Out of Pheasant Season 2024

Make The Most Out of Pheasant Season 2024 By Jacob Dean The crisp autumn air nipped at my nose as I slipped into my hunting vest, the weight of my shotgun comforting. Today was the day I’d been waiting for: the pheasant season opener. My hunting buddy, Jake, and his lab were already waiting in […]

Getting Youth Involved in Pheasant Season

Getting Youth Involved in Pheasant Season By Jacob Dean In Iowa, our season is getting ready to open up, before the season begins, we have a few days set aside for youth to go out and try their luck pheasant hunting. Some days might be better than others while out in the field. When you […]

Rooster Recap

Rooster Recap By Troy Hoepker How rare is it in your life when you wake up knowing that the day ahead of you is about to be so special that you will remember it for the rest of your life? And how rare is it that there will be someone else there that will share […]

Habitat That’s For The Birds

Habitat That’s For The Birds By Kent Boucher How was your pheasant and quail season? Great, mediocre, disappointing? If you were disappointed I’m guessing it’s because you only flushed a few birds or because you should’ve dusted off your wingshooting skills a little better before the season. Practicing with some clays in the offseason is […]

Establishing Perennial Cover

Establishing Perennial Cover By Kent Boucher Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to destroy than it is to build something great? It probably has something to do with the law of entropy, everything degrades into a state of greater disorder over time. This is easy to see when an old farmhouse gets […]

Pheasant Hunting Should Be Strategic Too!

Pheasant Hunting Should Be Strategic Too! By Dave Owens When it comes to pheasant hunting I think a lot of people think of it as an easy task. Grab your gun, shells, vest, boots, and hit the field to kick up some birds. While there might be some truth to that mentality, pheasant hunting should […]

Hunting Savy Pheasants

Hunting Savy Pheasants By Nolan Rolston Half-way through the Iowa upland season, the weather starts to break, our bird dogs start to hit their peak that they had at last season’s end. Along with this, those veteran roosters have been further educated on how to survive all of the conditions they are dealt throughout the […]

Establishing and Maintaining Native Warm Season Grasses

Establishing and Maintaining Native Warm Season Grasses By Jessica Graham My husband and I just moved to our current residence a few years ago. During that first year, we knew we wanted to attract wildlife to our property. We wanted to create a wildlife mecca, holding gamebirds, deer, and other wildlife. The first steps included […]

Iowa Pheasants Make A Comeback

Iowa Pheasants Make A Comeback By Jessica Graham Growing up, I would hear hunting stories from my Dad about his youth, most of these were shared while we were in the field pursuing our own game. During his youth, deer were scarce, there were just a few days a year set aside for deer hunting […]

Frost Seeding Upland Habitat

Frost Seeding Upland Habitat By Trent Larson Have you ever wanted to improve your upland hunting and wildlife viewing success on private land? Maybe you have an area you can improve. Iowa has lots of monocultures of pastures that have overtaken idle areas. These monocultures lack structure and variety that wildlife crave, and in turn […]

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