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145 TIPS FOR THE RUT? THEY’LL ONLY<br />
COST YOU A BUCK<br />
By Aaron Stonehocker<br />
THINKING SMALL<br />
By Tim Ackarman<br />
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?<br />
BOW HUNTING QUESTIONS<br />
ANSWERED BY OUR READERS<br />
CATCH YOUR LARGEST BASS NOW!<br />
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2016 IOWA PHEASANT FORECAST<br />
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EASY RUT HUNTING TIPS TO UTILIZE<br />
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44TRY SOMETHING NEW FOR<br />
HARDWATER 2017<br />
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WHITETAILS 365<br />
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LOW FUR PRICES? NO BETTER TIME<br />
TO START TRAPPING<br />
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=15"> HUNTING AN IOWA typical giant, a 145 inch </a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=19"> HUNTING IN IOWA has changed they </a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=23"> IT IS TIME FOR our annual questions and </a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=24"> What Would You Do? to the wind. Bucks might be co</a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=25"> can do more harm than good. You have to be so car</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=27"> LAST MONTH WE took a look at October bass </a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=28"> selected, baits can be rigged with various jighea</a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=29"> fish has trouble resisting a finesse worm. With i</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=31"> ALMOST A DECADE ago our typical weeken</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=33"> DNR gave me a few of his thoughts on hen numbers </a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=34"> SINCE THE INCEPTION of hunting magazines there</a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=35"> not rocket science, this is deer hunting. Yes, t</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=38"> BEFORE I BEGIN, thrown on the table is the fa</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=42"> TROPHY ROOM SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS! Want to share a p</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=45"> IT’S HARD TO believe we’re on the cusp </a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=46"> but it has been around for generations in Europe </a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=47"> out new water quickly. It also helps me become a </a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=53"> UNFORTUNATELY THE outlook for fur prices this</a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=61"> “IN 1898, the 27th General Assembly provide</a>
<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=62"> 63 Years of Deer Hunting... and Counting Clifton </a>
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<a title="IowaSportsmanNovember2016Issue page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4b249168?page=65"> we tend to use WHOA as a command also, which simp</a>
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