TPA Outdoors

Late Season Whitetail Tag Out Tactics

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by Sean Wuller As the end of the Whitetail hunting season draws to an end here in Iowa, some of us still have some tags that are burning holes in our pockets. While sitting around at our deer camp with our land managers & hunting buddies, we decided to come up with what we felt were our top […]

Crossbow Hunting in Iowa: A Beginner’s Tutorial

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By Sean Wuller For the first time ever Iowa hunters will have the opportunity to use a crossbow to harvest deer this late muzzleloader season. Unlike years past only disabled and handicap hunters were able to use a crossbow if they had consent from the DNR. Throwing the debate aside for this article, as some see the crossbow as an unfair advantage, […]

A Family That Hunts Together: Youth Season 2014

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By Bill Ziercher For millennium families and extended families (or clans, so to speak), “The Hunt” is something that is celebrated . . . the anticipation, the actual hunt and the stories that can be told and re-told for many years. The Ziercher family farm in northern Missouri practices include timber stand improvement (TSI), native […]

“Renovating” Land

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by: Michael Wardlaw Pick your show on HGTV and you’ll quickly see there is strong market for buying an old home and rehabbing it. Buyers find a location they love and turn the old home into the home of their dreams. Sure, it takes effort and time, but the end result is often a complete […]

Buying Your Dream Property

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I was 21 years old when I purchased my first farm. It was in 1979 and it was similar economic conditions to now. High grain prices had pushed land to a new all time high and I had to pay a ridiculous $700 per acre for this 80 acres of dream property that I could […]

The Wait Is Almost Over Missouri

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By now, if you’re like us, you can hardly stand it.  The temperatures are slowly creeping upward and the forest is coming alive with spring critters scampering about.  It can only mean one thing… Turkey Season! In just a few short days the wait will be over for Missourians as the chase for the majestic […]