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Curtis Goettsch on Hunting the Rut on Small Woodlots Adjacent to Agricultural Fields

From the last week of October until the second week of November - give or take a few days on either side of these two dates - is when I'm hunting for rutting bucks in Iowa. My favorite time to hunt the rut is just before the beginning of the rut. I target my rut hunting around Halloween - the last few days of October and the first few days of November, and that’s when

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Curtis Goettsch Tells About Early Season Deer Ice Cream – Green Browse Food Plots

Although the deer where I hunt in Iowa have plenty of crop fields to feed on, bowhunters who hunt agricultural fields often make the mistake of forgetting that deer are browsers and like a wide variety of food. Just like hunters eat steak, they’ll get tired of eating steak all day every day. I plant what I call green browse food plots - small food plots for deer that are a mix of clovers.

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Curtis Goettsch on the Secret to Early Season Agricultural Bow Bucks

Even though quite a few deer bed in the crops in the early season, still some deer prefer to bed in the woodlots. Also when the acorns start dropping, there will even be more deer activity moving back and forth from the timber to the crops.

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Curtis Goettsch on Deer Hunting Iowa

Curtis Goettsch, who lives in Cresco, Iowa, first wore military camo given to him by a friend. “I wore that army camouflage until I could save enough money to buy real camouflage,” Goettsch says. Then he purchased a Mossy Oak suit, and he's never changed his choice of camo. He joined the Mossy Oak Pro Staff in 2010 and is a nationally-recognized turkey caller and avid deer hunter. “I feel extremely fortunate to have been

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Fooling Whitetails

Allen Conners of Gadsden, Alabama, has won the title of World Champion Target Archer numerous times. He’s captured the Archery Shooters Association Shooter of the Year award, the Cabela’s Championship and the Buckmasters World Championship. The pro notes that over the years he’s learned that some little, simple things often cause hunters to miss chip shots at big bucks in front of their broadheads. Here, he helps us fix a few of those things so

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Mobile Stakeout: Change Camera Locations to Pattern Bucks

To keep tabs on your bucks you must keep your trail-camera locations moving throughout the season. Once hard antler occurs, their need for minerals will decline. When this happens, switch your camera set-ups from BioRock mineral sites to mock scrape locations and specific food sources.

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