It’s November, the rut is ON! Every hunter in the woods is chasing deer. Unless of course you have the fortune of already wrapping your tag around the antler of a mature buck; so now what do you do? Turkey hunting is a rich tradition in the fall hunting woods, and in many states it’s […]
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 […]
I was introduced to deer hunting through family and close friends just as most all of us are. Some of my greatest memories as a young hunter still keep me going into the deer woods at the start of each season some 30 years later. I remember those crisp November mornings making the long hike […]
I’m lucky to be in a position in my life that I can dedicate this time of year to my favorite pastime, chasing the elusive whitetails in famed Iowa. Spending the better part of every day in the timber since the 20th of October, I have had more than enough time to access the quality […]
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 […]
There is nothing better than sitting in a tree stand that first week of November. The bucks start chasing does and it just makes for some great entertainment for those long sits in the stand. On November 3rd I was sitting on the edge of a bean field waiting for deer to come out to […]
This year once again I had the chance to hunt with my dad. Some might say big deal, you do that every year. Well, as you age and life happens things change. Work schedules, injuries, kids and a host of other life issues all come and go. I have had a very blessed hunting career, […]
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 […]
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 […]
As I scanned the thick brush of the tangled nine year old tree planting 80 yards in front of me, I was thinking of past hunts from this very tree. You see, I have found “the tree”. In 2007 I began looking hard at aerial maps of my hunting area in search of funnels, benches, […]
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 […]
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. […]
There are very few things I’ve been associated with over the years that have the ability to give such personal gratification as Archery hunting. Regardless of species hunted, nimrods have many limitations that other hunters are not presented with in their hunting career. The ability to ethically harvest any of Mother Nature’s creatures is invigorating […]
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 […]
