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Turkey Kind of Weekend

This upcoming weekend, I’m heading out in chase of a Thanksgiving turkey. I always save one of my two fall turkey tags for the weekend before Thanksgiving. I have shared this hunt with my Dad in the past, in fact, it was on this hunt in 2006 I called in his first ever turkeys. Yes […]

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Blackstone Custom Calls…. Product Review

One thing that did show up last weekend just in time for this weekend’s turkey hunt was an order I had placed with Blackstone Custom Calls. I had ordered, a few turkey calls from them after talking with owner and custom call marker, Dustin Jones. Now as you may or may not know I spend […]

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Monster Iowa 8 Point Pushing 150

Jesse Wegner harvested a true monster whitetail on Halloween. This was a buck Jesse had on trail cam this year and last. He wasn’t at all sure what it would score just knew it had great tine and main beam length. He has a rule on this farm that he will only shoot a buck […]

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Another Hitlist Buck Down

Good friend of mine Jake Groth, finally got a shot at the buck he had named Crab Claw, in a earlier post named “Victory Outdoors Most Wanted”. Here is a little recap of how the buck got his name from that post: “Crab Claw the last two years (2010/11) this buck had crab claw G4s […]

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Hunting at Mid-day

I was talking to a good friend of mine on the phone the other day. Tracy Pedretti and I have known each other for a number of years now. We both love turkey hunting but when deer season rolls around that dominates the conversation. I was telling about a deer hunting tip that I happened […]

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Iowa Buck Down… On the board

It was that time of the year, fall crisp air and a full moon days away. It was time to be in the deer woods. I was hunting an area that I knew had two good bucks that had made my hit list for 2012. I had one of those very bucks at 20 yards […]

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BOW SPEED & NOISE

Noise is a major issue for bowhunters, and yet relatively few give it the attention it deserves, believing that a deer cannot possibly “jump the string”, when an arrow is shot from one of today’s “fast” bows. I shoot one of the fasted bows on the market the PSE EVO, advertized speed of 345 fps. […]

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Almost Closed the Deal on Lucky

Had the best bow hunt I have had this year so far! Didn’t get the shot off but I had deer start to finish. It was a warm Sunday afternoon and I wasn’t in a hurry to get to my stand. Got to my stand at 5:15PM and had just got settled in. I spotted […]

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Fowl Rain

I looked at the forecast for Saturday morning: 100% chance of rain. Called Jake. We would play it by ear if it was fit to hunt in the morning we would. 4:30AM came early checked the radar there was light rain to the west but it looked like we had window of a few hours […]

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Lookin’ to the Fields for Early Whitetails

Early! Early! Early! I can’t wait for opening weekend. I take the first chance I can to get out and hunt whitetails.  I live for the openers; I like to use this time to hunt from a blind or a tree stand on the edge of a field, because one thing it does is allow […]

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Fall Turkey Classic

It’s no secret that I love turkey hunting, spring and fall the same. In the past I haven’t hunted fall turkeys the traditional way, of busting up a flock and calling back. Instead I have just found the large fall groups and called them into range. In some cases I have even passed on taking a shot and just let […]

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“Weather” to hunt? or “Whether” to hunt? Is it even a question?

The Midwest is in for a large cool down. This weekend lows in my area will hit mid to upper 20s. This will be the first hard frost for my area.  Two things I hope it brings;  1. Deer movement & 2. Kills midge fly. The midge fly is the cause of a lot of […]

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“No-Plow” Food Plot Update

Even without much rain this year the “No-Plow” food plots worked just as I had hoped. Sure the plots that got more sunlight did better but I didn’t expect them to grow like “field” plots. For review the landowner had harvested a few trees this past winter and we now had some openings in the forest […]

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Wingbone Turkey Call

As an avid turkey hunter, I’m a call freak!!! I seem to have a call of every kind or make, box calls, tube calls, mouth calls, pot calls with every kind of surface. I like my collection of calls.  Some get hunted some are for show and some I run only in calling contests at […]

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