The hottest new trend in deer hunting today is taking big bucks on small properties. With public hunting land becoming more crowded than ever before and the cost of leasing land to hunt skyrocketing, more and more hunters are gaining permission from landowners to hunt on their property or leasing small tracts of land to […]
Curtis Goettsch has spent most of his time this season behind the camera but in his first hunt out in front, he gets it done on a great Iowa Whitetail, but look at the buck that makes his way to his stand just minutes after his shot. Iowa truly is a bowhunter’s dream. VICTORY OUTDOORS […]
This is the best time of year to catch great pictures of bucks visiting the scrape cam, leading up to the peak breeding season. I move most of my cameras to active scrapes during the first couple weeks of October and run them there until the end of the season. The majority of the pictures […]
If you’re like me, your still out in the deer woods. All the pre-season scouting, stand placements, food plots planted, shooting lanes cut and dreams of tagging that 170” buck you had on trail-cams have faded. Not gone away but faded. Well…lucky for all of us it’s time for the Pre-Rut Bucks to kick in! […]
So you’ve practiced with all of your gear on in numerous different shooting positions, and you know your bow is shooting well. Now how do you defeat your own body’s production of adrenaline? We’ve all felt it, that fast-pulsed rush and shortness of breath we call “buck fever.” If you’re like most of us, you […]
This is a new feature to Victory Outdoors that we think many of you will enjoy. Pat Howard and the rest of the USA Trail Cams team are widely known as an expert in this field. There are very few who can capture pictures with a trail cam, at the highest of levels. Pat and the […]
We are but a couple days away from what we work towards all year. Hours of time has slipped by while we carefully examined photos time and time again so we can have our hit-list clearly defined. We have worked tirelessly through the scorching, humid, “dog days” of summer; hanging stands, clearing lanes, working the […]
Difficult, upsetting, frustrating, challenging, motivating, exciting and overall accomplishing are some adjectives that come to mind while filming a hunt. That is what makes hunting so addicting though, is it not? Hunting itself is one of the most beautiful things to me. Then you add additional aspects to it and it becomes more than it […]
Well it is truly my favorite time of year!! The bucks are losing their velvet and starting to split up. They are polishing their antlers and getting more active every day!! Bow season for us in Iowa is 2 weeks away. The BEST part is that Youth Season starts this Saturday the 19th of September!! […]
Finally the time of checking trail cameras has come for me. It’s always an exciting feeling when; you have a chance to see what pictures you have on the camera that you put out there. It’s a self-fulfilling feeling for me personally. I did all the work, I trimmed all the trees, I put the […]
After last year’s events from hunting season I have been waiting to get my trail cams out. Seeing all the up and coming deer, watching them grow, and hoping the big ones make it through the winter has me biting my nails every time you look at the pictures. When the antlers drop and shed hunting begins, […]
This is a new feature to Victory Outdoors that we think many of you will enjoy. Pat Howard and the rest of the USA Trail Cams team are widely known as an expert in this field. There are very few who can capture pictures with a trail cam, at the highest of levels. Pat and […]
That’s right, I have one question is he a shooter? I love a Big Eight, the never score great but they can attract a lot of attention. I know my answer to the question, and I’ll post it below but what do you think? Okay here is the thing, I think he is maybe 3.5 […]
After having my cameras out for over a month it was finally time for my First Card Pull. Well I have checked one anyway. The camera I checked is on a 145 acre farm just three miles from my house. This is not one of my “good” farms but it is one that is close enough that […]
