Time is of the essence when you’re hunting. With an app called Scout the Hunt, Branden Labrum and his team can help you zero in on your efforts and increase your scouting capacity. Through the app’s Advanced Scouting Platform, all fresh intel from the field will instantly be available for to incorporate into your scouting strategy. Looking to receive alerts and images of your preferred game when spotted? Not a problem! Along with their corresponding…
The outdoor industry is full of folks waiting for the next best thing. To know how to set yourself apart and be successful, Tim Kjellesvik, host of The Thinking Woodsman podcast, shares his wealth of information on what makes you saleable, marketable, and promotable in the outdoor industry. His article called Five Ways to Set Yourself Apart in the Outdoor Industry answers questions on how you should run a business in this space. He also…
Robbie Knickman, creator of The Mix, an attractant that has been creating a buzz in the hunting world lately, shares the backstory of how he discovered this great product. He talks about the science behind it as well as some great tips on how to utilize it. Robbie is vocal about the idea on why he created this product, recalling his love for hunting and his daughter. He provides great insights as he discusses…
It’s amazing what whitetails teach us all the time and how much the experts think they know about them. When it comes down to the push and shove, they know some stuff, no question about it, but when you put the whole thing together, all these moving parts have to be very successful year after year. Dillan Porter of Trophy Whitetails R’Us grew up around whitetails and he said he can’t imagine anything different.…
Art Helin gives a breakdown of the seminar he gave at Iowa Deer Classic about the seasons of deer vocalization used during all four phases of the Rut to harvest mature bucks. He talks about the different types of calls used, and why they were effective and why they weren’t. He also shares insights with land management and says it’s broken down into four different parts: food, water, cover, and sanctuaries. He believes the last…
Trophy Bucks of Iowa isn’t just about the inches on the head of the animal. It’s about their trophy and what it means to them to take that animal. Brandon Dahms wants to instill that trophy may not have the same meaning of a trophy to a young boy that went out on his first hunt, but it’s about creating memories of being able to go out, hunt, and what it means to them which…
What do young people enjoy doing outside of athletics? This was the question they were trying to answer when William Crawford crafted the President’s Outdoor Scholars Program, an outdoor curriculum that keeps students plugged into the outdoors while they’re in college. So many young people are disconnected from the outdoors or things they grew up doing when they go off to college because they’re out trying to get an education. William assures that with…
Down in Vernon County in the 20th of October, a magnificent high-time buck was harvested by one Jeremy Berlin from Wisconsin. There is a trick to hunting mature whitetails, an art – and this particular high-time buck has got impressive width, mass, and brow tines that won’t quit. Over the years, Jeremy Berlin has learned to keep it together because if he didn’t, there was a chance he could have missed this deer. You always…
Jeremy Berlin talks about hunting mature bucks and the factors that come into it. Jeremy says it’s hard passing up a 140, but the delay of satisfaction brings you a 190 or 180-inch buck. He shares that the most important factors in holding bucks in your land is food, bedding, and water. Running year-round nutrition and food plots will appeal to a deer throughout the year. It doesn’t matter how much acreage you have. If…
