whitetail hunting

Iowa Deer Season Prep 2026

Prep for Deer Season 2026 Now

Prep for Deer Season 2026 Now Deer season 2025 seems like a distant memory at this point. What we longed for in anticipation has changed to a new longing: deer season 2026! Until then, there are quite a few deer-related activities that can keep us especially busy as we pass the time and pursue whitetails […]

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Saddle Hunting For Those Who Say They Never Will 

Saddle Hunting For Those Who Say They Never Will 

Saddle Hunting for Those Who Say They Never Will  “I’m all about mobile hunting, but I ain’t wearing a diaper.” This is a statement I once heard on a hunting podcast and the sentiment stuck with me as I watched other hunters on TV and YouTube channels who included saddles in their mobile hunting setup. […]

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Planning Your Deer Food Plot

Planning Your Deer Food Plot

Planning Your Deer Food Plot  When February rolls around, I always feel a shift—it’s like the start of a new season for those of us who love the outdoors and deer hunting. The hustle of hunting season has settled down, and now, instead of watching deer from the stand, I start preparing for how I’ll […]

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Tips for Using Trail Cameras

Using Trail Cameras with a Purpose

Using Trail Cameras with a Purpose I wouldn’t exactly call myself “old school” out of respect of those who were hunting before the debut of Real Tree Camo, however I can attest that the game of hunting has changed way more than the game we are hunting in the short 13 years I have been […]

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10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes

10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes

10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes Why do top notch hunters shoot quality mature deer year after year? Sure they scout, don’t shoot young bucks, maintain their land, pay attention to the wind, plant food plots, are in big buck country, ect. Yes all of those and many more reasons can attribute to better […]

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Three tips for a successful muzzleloader season

Three Tips for a Successful Muzzleloader Season

Three Tips for a Successful Muzzleloader Season One of the most exciting times to harvest a deer is in the snow, during the late muzzleloader season. It’s during this time that I eagerly grab my muzzleloader and go on a mission to harvest does. These does, will be transformed into a batch of mouthwatering jerky […]

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Tips for Prescribed Burning

Tips for Safe and Effective Prescribed Burning

Well Done: Tips for Safe and Effective Prescribed Burning In my experience, there are two universal truths when it comes to performing a prescribed burn: 1) if you do it long enough, you will have to call in support from the local volunteer fire department at some point, and 2) the fire department will get […]

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10 Tips for Iowa Rut Late Season Whitetails

10 Tips for Iowa Rut

10 Tips for Iowa Rut Time-is-a-ticking, and before you know it, you’ll be pinned down, eye to eye with that old mature doe. The stomps seem like days, and days feel like weeks. But this time you took the week off and dropped her with the “if she blows, she goes’’ motto. You sit down […]

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Hunting Nocturnal Whitetail

Whitetail Black Ops: Operation Nocturnal Bruiser

Whitetail Black Ops: Operation Nocturnal Bruiser There is very little the modern hunter does not have at his disposal when it comes to tools, weapons, and attractants, that will help to even the odds between the hunter and the hunted. Each year, state of the art equipment makes scouting, patterning, and harvesting a mature whitetail […]

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Iowa CWD & EHD Update 2025 Locked Down But Not Out

Locked Down But Not Out

Locked Down But Not Out As the old saying goes: The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and locked down bucks come November. Well, most of that saying is well-known, but in the whitetail world losing tabs on a bruiser buck during November is almost always a certainty. Deer hunting can be very fickle. […]

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