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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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Pre-Rut Bucks… it’s that time of year

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! […]

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“Buck Fever” GET CALM & STAYING CALM

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 […]

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Paying Respect

As hunters we all know the constant struggle of finding and keeping hunting land available. With the constant selling and leasing land it seems that we are loosing more and more of our favorite whitetail sanctuaries. One way to help keep the properties available for us to enjoy is to show your respect and appreciation […]

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Iowa Whitetail Youth S4 E8

Iowa Youth, Garrett Green gets redemption after missing the first day of the season, is able to drop the hammer on a great Iowa Whitetail Buck! VICTORY OUTDOORS SEASON 4 Episode 8  

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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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HS to partner W/ Victory Outdoors

Victory Outdoors and Hunters Specialties is pleased to announce that for the 2015 Fall Season, HS has come aboard presenting sponsor of Victory Outdoors. Owner of  Victory Outdoors, Curtis Goettsch states “It’s truly an honor for us to have their support.” Hunters Specialties is the world’s largest supplier of hunting accessories. The product line includes H.S. Strut turkey calls, […]

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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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Shooter?

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 […]

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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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