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Iowa Whitetail Hunting - Tactics and More


Iowa Public Land Whitetails: The Tools You Need to Find and Hunt Big Bucks
There is something special about testing your own hunting skills on public land. Taking the knowledge you have learned from past hunting seasons and applying it to ground that sometimes you've never stepped foot on before can be incredible challenging and rewarding. Iowa's public land whitetails have been hardened to the pressures of public land hunting their whole life and success won't come without work. You don't have the luxury of being the only hunter that private or

Derek Cleveland
4 days ago6 min read


Playing the Wind - You're doing it WRONG!
Using the wind to hunt giant whitetails - You are doing it wrong!

Derek Cleveland
Sep 296 min read


Conditioning vs. Educating Mature Whitetails: Should You Avoid Intruding on Your Property?
One of the most common pieces of advice we often hear from experienced deer hunters is “Stay out of your hunting property." There is a lot of truth behind that advice. Mature whitetails are extremely good at recognizing danger. Every time a hunter walks through the timber, bumps deer, leaves human scent behind, or repeatedly enters an area at the wrong time, the odds of changing deer behavior dramatically increase. This doesn’t necessarily mean that a mature buck will comp

Derek Cleveland
Sep 235 min read


Collapse of a Powerhouse: Is Iowa Deer Hunting a Shadow of it's Past?
There was a time when saying “Iowa whitetail” immediately conjured up an image of something special. Big-bodied deer. Heavy racks. Mature bucks around every corner slipping through timber. Endless agricultural food sources surrounded by hardwoods, river bottoms, brushy draws and secluded pockets of cover. The dream that at any given moment a truly world class whitetail could magically appear. For decades, Iowa developed a reputation as one the premier, if not “The Premier”

Derek Cleveland
Sep 125 min read


Iowa's Pending Trail Camera Ban
Are you for or against the Pending Trail Camera Ban?

Derek Cleveland
Sep 36 min read


Mastering Early Season Mature Whitetails
The basics of hunting early season whitetails.

Derek Cleveland
Aug 286 min read


Budget Waterholes
Creating whitetail waterholes on a budget. Cost affective ways to attract deer.

Derek Cleveland
Aug 206 min read
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