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Carcass Cam Best Of

By Dan Gorman I haven’t officially pulled the cameras, mainly because I haven’t decided where exactly I want to put them yet, but I’m pretty sure the carcass cam is winding down for the year. I got some pretty decent pictures throughout the winter but overall it was a disappointing year. After last year I […]

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Off Season Trail Cameras

By Dan Gorman This is the time of year I consider the trail camera off season. The carcass cam has run its course. There are a handful of bucks still holding antlers but most have shed, and I can only look at so many pictures of does and shed bucks, regardless of the scenery. I […]

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Postseason Scouting Whitetail

By Dan Gorman This time of year is my favorite time to get out and do some scouting to prepare for next deer season. I had a little time last weekend to get out and walk the property to see if there were any shed antlers to be had. I didn’t find any sheds, but […]

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Sausage Making Basics

After my last post about canning deer meat, I received some questions about other processing I do, so I thought I’d write a follow up about making sausage. I’ll try to keep this fairly generic, as the basic principles can be applied to many different types of sausage, but this will specifically be about making […]

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After the Shot, Meat Processing

By Dan Gorman I started dabbling in meat processing about ten years ago, and I took my last full deer to the locker in 2009. There were several factors that influenced my decision to do everything myself. The first was price. The last deer I took in cost $419 to process. A lot of this […]

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Chilly 3D Shoot

I attended my first outdoor 3D shoot of the year Sunday morning. It was the appropriately named “blizzard shoot” at the Anamosa bowhunters club. This is my local club, so I try to make as many of the shoots as I can to help support them. I walked out the door in the morning and […]

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The Carcass Cam

Now that hunting season is over, I like to run a camera over the bones and scraps from the deer I was able to kill during the year. I also recently acquired a road killed deer that wasn’t salvageable, so I put it in front of the cameras as well. I started doing these three […]

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Iowa Whitetail Kill S3.W24

In this webisode Victory Outdoors’, pro staffer Dan Gorman uses his TACTCAM to self-film an Iowa Whitetail Kill!  100% filmed with a HD TACTACAM 2.0, See PROMO Code for a great deal on TACTACAM. PROMO CODE: VICTORY VICTORY OUTDOORS SEASON 3  Webisode 24 Don’t miss out on the action subscribe to our YouTube Channel @ http://bit.ly/1jvQqit

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Dan’s Iowa Shotgun Season

The first full week of December in Iowa, I hang the bow up for a few days and get together with friends and family for the first shotgun season. The season is only five days long, so you try to make the most of every minute of legal shooting time. This is a time when […]

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Getting Closer

I haven’t had any luck this year hunting, but I pulled camera cards over the weekend and I can tell November is getting closer. I have a couple good bucks making random appearances along the river and my scrape cam is starting to pick up. The ridge cam has been a bit of a disappointment, […]

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Making Adjustments

As the new season is quickly approaching, and final preparations are being made, I thought I’d write about some changes I’m making this year as well as some things that remain the same over the years. One of the main changes that was made on the property is a small finger of crop field that […]

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Dan’s Latest Card Pull

I pulled cards on four cameras today and I finally got a nice buck on camera. I actually think I got him on two different cameras about 200 yards and two hours apart. There were plenty of does with twins and a few coyotes and several raccoons. I also got a few nice turkey pictures. […]

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Getting the Itch

With archery season being slightly more than a month away, I’m starting to get seriously excited to be back in a treestand. I feel like I am way behind this year, so I will be spending quite a bit of time in the next month getting things ready and organized for the year. One of […]

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One Eyed Jack

Trail Camera Woes

I’ve been running trail cameras for about nine years, and I would consider my addiction to have become serious about five years ago. By serious, I mean I have at least one camera out all year.  I run cameras for deer and turkey, but also for predators, and surveillance, and just plain fun. I mostly […]

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