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Overall, I think Iowa has some great opportunities for the upland bird hunter to fill his / her daily bag limit of pheasants. It is like any sport the more effort you put into it the more you gain. I have been hunting Iowa for many years and have good success on most of our hunts. Yes, you...

Your next trip head North and West of of Mason City the bird counts there have been outstanding this year. There is a lot of Public Ground to cover up there. My friends were kicking 50-60 Rooster per field. We were seeing 20 -25 per field. We had to hit the cattails very hard because that...

Randy, I have been hunting in the general area most of the season this year and the trips that I have been there the winds were very strong which didn't play well for our hunting plans. What weekend were you there? Coming earlier really wouldn't have mattered to much because we really didn't...

Very little corn standing west of I-35

That is awesome Waterdog! I plan on hunting Thursday and Friday this week to see if I can locate so other public grounds that for my son and I to scout out. We had six rooster get up on a corner of a field on Saturday first three jumped up and then two right after that and 2 seconds later the...

Opening weekend in North Central Iowa was a little disappointing, not nearly the number of birds that we have seen in the past. We did put up some birds and saw some good size roosters but the young roosters from this years hatch were far and few between. A lot of walking with a good brace of...

Almost all of the corn is down in north central Iowa. We hardly saw any standing corn this past weekend.

Connie, Just reading the responses from everyone and they all make great sense but no one took the time to ask you what kind of hunting that you wanted to get started in. I can only assume since you are on a Upland Hunting forum that you may be looking to get started pheasant or quail hunting...

Nice website! Good luck with your business.

I can't agree more with the last 2 post. The bond that you build with your hunting partner should be one that last a life time.

I went to two different Scheels over the weekend and all the had was Federal 20 Gauge on the shelf, no 12 Gauge at all! I talk with one of the store clerks and he said they had stock the shelve with all the 12 Gauge that they had early that morning and it was sold out very quickly. I will...

Remy, Thanks for the update on Scheels I was planning on going there today. By the way nice looking shorthairs in your picture. The ammo shortage in general has been well documented across the nation but the last couple of years the lack of field loads on shotgun shells in truly incredible...

Scott, The best advise I can give you is to have patience with a young dog and don't get upset when they make some mistakes early in the hunting season. Pointing is in the dogs DNA and I am sure that it will come out once you get him on more birds. Remember this is going to be your hunting...

I would agree that the weather looks pretty favorable for the farmers to harvest to rest of the beans & corn before the opener. This my be one of the best starts ever if we can find some 12 gauge shells to hunt with. I was out his week and the shelves are still bare around my area. Oh the...

Something to keep in mind for your trip. The Iowa Deer hunting starts the week after the Thanksgiving and that would be a bad time because of the amount of Deer hunters across the state. Deer hunting in Iowa is like a state holiday. I would suggest coming before or after there deer hunting...