Seasons & License

SOUTHERN IOWA TROPHY HUNTS

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Seasons & License

Iowa Semi Guided
Bow Hunts

Most bow hunters don't require assistance; they just need time and an opportunity. We give you exactly this and more. Iowa is famous for its abundance of trophy class whitetails combine this with our fertile soil and well known crop production and you now have the ingredients that make Iowa one of the best places in North America to hunt trophy whitetail deer.

To begin with, Iowa has a good strain of whitetail, now take in to account the thousands of acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. Then throw in all the wild forage that is available and as you can imagine Iowa’s deer and turkeys always get plenty to eat. Next add a good measure of habitat, southern Iowa’s vast landscape offers great cover and protection for the deer. This is the formula for successfully allowing our whitetails to reach maturity.

Our super genetics: Southern Iowa is known for the number of Boone & Crockett Whitetails. It has produced typicals, nontypicals, tall tines, mass and extra points. They're here.

The Iowa archery deer-hunting season opens October 1st and runs through November 31st. Not much compares to the first couple of weeks in November bow hunting in Iowa during the rut. Bow hunters hold an advantage over all other hunters due to the long season and the timing of the breeding season. With bucks chasing does from daylight to dark, and bucks charging in to challenge your rattling sequence, the magical time of the rut is unmatched.

Bow hunting offers the chance to be in the middle of the action. While this time is something to be a part of, we have discovered that the early part of the deer-hunting season can be quite productive also. Since we dedicate over 75% of our lands to bow hunting only this encourages a natural movement of deer all year long. Although a hunter’s success is in direct reflection of his bow hunting skills, abilities, weather and luck.

The big bucks that Iowa is known for did not become famous for being easily hunted a mature whitetail buck may be the hardest single animal to harvest with a bow. If your up to the challenge and have the skill you way just take a trophy buck. Taking a “160” class buck on our property is a real possibility for those hunters who pass on younger bucks and match wits against the mature deer.

Iowa Semi Guided Shotgun Hunts

The State of Iowa and its wildlife managers had the foresight decades ago to implement a plan that was the key to making Iowa the trophy hotspot it has come to be known as today. Through strict managing of the deer harvest and superior genetics, along with the rich, productive soil of our native farmlands, Iowa has become a trophy hunter's prime destination.

Since Iowa has very little ground available to public hunting, it can be hard for a non-resident to gain access to the premier hunting ground Iowa has to offer. We have sought out and acquired some of the very best hunting ground in our part of the state. We have several large tracts of land that allow us to have an impact on the management of the deer herd in our area. Each location that we hunt, is situated so that each hunter has an exclusive area to hunt.

Shotgun and muzzle loader season brings the opportunity to reach out and harvest those elusive bucks that always kept out of bow range during the archery season. The secondary rut occurs during this time frame, keeping bucks on the prowl. Hunting near food sources are also a great way to intercept a big, mature Iowa giant. Hunting late afternoon until dark over corn, soybean fields, or food plots can be quite productive.

While gun hunting deer in Iowa offers the chance to take most bucks you see off stand, it is still a challenge to come away with the buck of a lifetime. The method of hunting hard all day, has given hunters great success in having the opportunity to take a southern Iowa trophy buck. Iowa offers 2 shotgun deer hunting seasons, and we offer several different packages for our self-guided gun hunts. The flexibility of our gun hunting packages gives our hunters the opportunity to harvest some great bucks.

You may choose to hunt the first shotgun season, which is a 5-day hunt and starts the first Saturday in December. The second shotgun season which consists of 9-days, and starts the second Saturday in December.

Iowa Semi Guided Muzzle Loader Hunts

Iowa muzzle loader deer hunting late season is a deer hunting opportunity not frequently found outside of Iowa. Depending on Iowa's unpredictable cold weather, this late season muzzle loader offer some fantastic hunting, if you can handle the frigid, cold weather Iowa has to offer. The bucks are recovering from rutting activity they endured, and primarily focused on putting weight back on to survive the winter ahead.

Muzzle loaders are also legal during both shotgun seasons. The only restrictions are they must be a minimum of .45 caliber and larger. Smokeless powders, Pyrodex, and black powder and black powder substitutes are legal to use.

For the most part, the late muzzle loader deer season presents a deer hunting challenge with an opportunity to do well hunting bucks while in recovery mode and post rut patterns. Bucks which are sometimes in bachelor groups appear to have a very small range of movement, largely centered on their bedding to feeding areas.

Favored deer food sources include corn, soybeans, winter wheat. Supplemental food plots will also get some attention during this period. Because bucks are so focused on food sources at this time of the year hunting between the feeding and bedding areas either in stand or on the ground tends to payoff far more so than during other hunts including the rut.

Because a mature whitetail buck at this time of the year will not tolerate any undue stress, we do not allow any types of deer drives, or still-hunting. Stand hunting only allowed on the Shotgun or Muzzle loader hunt. We limit the amount of deer pressure on each farm, to ensure that no giants will be pushed off our land.