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I'll be crawling out of a southern Iowa treestand late morning Nov. 3 to make the trip back to Des Moines to cast a vote in person. I'll stand there all day and miss my evening hunt to cast my vote if I have to. You could give me a choice of shooting a 220" on Nov 3rd or going to vote and 1000...

I'm half the hunter a lot of you guys are but here are my bucks. Ignoring shotgun season deer because I don't feel they represent natural movements... 1 Early Season evening kill 3 Morning kills between Nov 19 and Nov 21 (Every year I feel more and more that this is my primetime, not early Nov...

The most involved members of Facebook groups (Bowhunters of Iowa, for example) are usually so full of crap you can smell them through the computer screen. Those pages are pure comedy. The topic doesn't matter. Everyone is an armchair deer expert on facebook and many of them have no track...

That's awesome! It's funny how a simple object can bring back so many memories with special people. My grandpa just passed away last month and I was given his old Mossberg 500. He shot lots of pheasants and deer with that old gun before he wasn't able to hunt anymore but it will be in the...

One thing that's been a game changer for me is thinking long and hard about my approach to stands. I'd rather hunt an 'okay' spot with 'great' entry and exit than hunt a 'great' spot with a 'poor' entry and exit. When I first started bow hunting, I sniffed out some pretty solid spots but I...

Polls and models don't matter. You have to vote. Have 5 friends that like to hunt and shoot? Get them to register and bring them with you to vote. If you don't vote, you are complicit in the left's gun control agenda. Like Dan Crenshaw says "The left is telling you how much they hate...

I'll say this in regards to the critique of President Trump... If Hillary Clinton was president right now and made the exact same decisions Trump as made, at the exact same time, the media would be PRAISING her. She would be championed as bold and courageous. She would be praised for her strong...

No kidding. I was in the Urbandale HyVee last Friday for normal groceries and I think I was the only person in there not buying TP. Even though I'm kinda one of the "city folk" now, I'm excited to head back to the family farm this weekend, stock up on some ground venison, hopefully find a few...

This one hit pretty hard for me this morning. Last spring I asked my 85 year old grandfather to go fishing with me. At that point we'd been fishing buddies for all 25 years of my life and for the first time in my life, he told me no. He didn't think he would be able to get down to the water...

I'd take one look at it and say "Eh, just a rootball" and keep walking.

And if they say otherwise, they're a liar lol.

All-timer for sure lol

Hunted this morning, froze my tail off. Had a 3 y.o. 10 that I haven't seen before cruise by just before 9, then again an hour later. And that was it. Got out of the tree at 11:30 because we had to work cattle this afternoon. Kinda scratched my head all the way back to the truck wondering...

I took last Thursday and Friday off as well as this whole week. Been slow so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. For the most part the action has been first hour and last hour every day except Nov 1st. I've passed 3 different mid 140s in that 3 y.o. range. Have had two of them inside 20...

Looking for some experiences from others in regards to mature bucks living in places right under our noses and how to go about killing bucks like that. A few years ago, a friend of mine shot a 180 class buck during shotgun season on an 80 acre crp field. The only trees on the place were the...

I'm at the point where I refuse to run anything but Moultrie. I usually buy their $100-120 cameras and have had great success with them. I've ran Covert, Cuddeback, Muddy, and Bushnell in the past and always seem to come away disappointed. I'll be Moultrie until they give me a reason not to be.

I'm just messenger but the FAA mandates drone pilots to not fly above 400 ft. So I guess we're at a crossroads, aren't we.

You'd be playing with fire. I believe the FAA is on record saying they view unmanned aircraft the same as manned aircraft, they both have to follow the same airspace rules.. no-fly zones are the same for drones and planes, etc. Aircraft Sabotage is a federal crime and would definitely land you...

I'm not lawyer, but I agree... no chance that sticks. The justice system will do as exactly as it's intended. With all due respect, I think might be too close to the situation and letting your emotions play into it. For attempted murder to stick, they would have to prove beyond a reasonable...

Really interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. I've spent soooo many hours day dreaming about, thinking about, and scratching my head about bucks that have stuck around for a while then *poof* never see them again until next year. Or the ones that you get one picture of in late October then...