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Still Bucks to be Had

Now that Christmas has come and gone. Some of the Victory Outdoors Team will turn their attention to late season bucks. A few still have bow tags left for Iowa and others have late season muzzleloader tags. Zac Geith and I are teaming up to see if we can put a few more whitetails on […]

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Perseverance Pays Off S4 E13

Perseverance Pays Off in a big way for TW Norman, after a long Iowa archery season, finally it all comes together on November 30, 2015. VICTORY OUTDOORS SEASON 4 Episode 13 Don’t miss out on the action subscribe to our YouTube Channel http://bit.ly/1jvQqit

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Pond Cam

I hung this trail cam over looking a scrape, just off of a well used trail, with a small pond in the background. I never made it back to this farm to hunt it this year. As I filled my Iowa bow tag on the first morning I hunted Iowa. To watch the video of […]

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Bowhunting Deer: Mossy Oak Pros Know

In this book, Phillips applies the same philosophy of gaining information that he uses in all 58 of his other books – find the hunters who hunt the most and take the biggest and best bucks. Learn their tactics and techniques, and then write about them in his books. Many of the Mossy Oak pros […]

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How to Hunt and Take Big Buck Deer on Small Properties

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 […]

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Iowa Whitetail Rut S4 E11

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 […]

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Scrape Cam Action

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 […]

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IOWA TOP TEN: PART 3

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 […]

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It’s Time: thoughts and reflection

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 […]

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It is Game Time!

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!! […]

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Trail Camera Excitement

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 […]

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Trail Cams: Better Late than Never

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, […]

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Iowa Top Ten: Part 2

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 […]

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TW’s First Card Pull

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 […]

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