Trail Cameras: Truth or Consequence Trail camera use and technology has exploded over the past five years. Do they uncover a property's true potential for producing trophy whitetails... or spook the very deer we're trying to hunt? Finding a cure for the common cold will probably happen before hunters fully understand how trophy-class whitetails so easily evade us during hunting season. Undoubtedly, it's the variables which make this sport tough.
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Iowa DNR Deer Hunting FAQs 11/07/08
Each fall many hunters find themselves dealing with situations which are unfamiliar and concerns arise as to how to handle them. Often hunters ask is it okay to tag a spike buck with an antlerless-only tag and how such an animal should be reported. [Comments?]
Iowa DNR Updates Antlerless Tag Sale Date 10/20/08
The November antlerless-only deer licenses go on sale Nov. 15, not on Nov. 10 as listed in the Iowa Hunting and Trapping Regulations. The season dates are Nov. 28, 29 and 30. [Comments?]
Iowa Updates WMA Maps - Now Available Online 07/30/08
New maps for Iowa wildlife management areas that allow public hunting are now available on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources website. Creating the new maps was a three year process and replaced those created in 2000-01. [Comments?]
Iowa Spring Turkey Hunting Numbers Decline 06/18/08
The winter that wouldn't end is the likely culprit for a decline in the number of resident spring turkey hunters, and in the number of turkey licenses sold. [Comments?]
Iowa Bowhunter Survey Results Available 05/14/08
The Iowa bowhunter observation survey is setting the groundwork to track population trends by establishing baseline data for deer, turkeys, and selected furbearers across the state. [Comments?]
Iowa Turkey Season Opens April 14th 04/11/08
Winter wants to hang on, with snow flurries and morning temperatures in the 30s. There's no better evidence of spring, though, than Opening Day of Iowa's first turkey season. [Comments?]
Iowa DNR Spring Sale Set for May 10th 02/27/08
The Iowa DNR will hold a spring auction Saturday, May 10, 2008 at the Cattle Barn on the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The gates will open at 8 a.m. and the auction will begin around 9 a.m. [Comments?]
Iowa Hunters had Safe Hunting Season 01/30/08
Sometimes, a downward trend is a good thing. Iowa hunters have chalked up another year with no firearm related deaths and if the pace continues, are on track for perhaps the safest hunting decade on record. [Comments?]
Iowa Extended Season Adds to Doe Harvest 12/31/07
Despite poor weather during the shotgun season extension, hunters got out and shot more than 5,000 deer, of which more than 90 percent were antlerless. Of those antlerless deer, around 3,600 were does. [Comments?]
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First Deer and All the Mistakes I Made I have been hunting with my boyfriend before and have watched him shoot a deer with a gun so I had a little bit of an idea of the feeling I would get when I went hunting on my own. Well at least that's what I thought anyway. I have been shooting a bow for a little over a year now, at first I was just using a friends bow to see if I even liked shooting one.
