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GENERAL RUT UPDATE SINCE LAST POST, 11/9-11/13 In the last four days since our last update, we have had 8+ encounters with shooters, but...

Written on Wednesday November 9th, 2022 at 10:19am CST Where do I begin? This will be a rather large update with multiple sections....

Take our quiz on deer aging and scoring to see how you align with our opinions and guesses (and knowns). Enjoy!

Yesterday morning into the early afternoon, a considerable rain storm pushed through Iowa bringing some instant cooling effects into the...

Does MDLO offer Fully Guided Hunts? Not since 2017. Since then we went the semi-guided route due to the serious amount of time it took...

Wednesday November 2nd, 2022 BOW HUNTING & THE RUT 2022 October ended with some farms showing some nocturnal scrapes being tended by only...

Judging a deer to calculate shooter status - age, score, frame, storyline - What goes into our decision-making?

Hunting mid-to-late October has its perks. It also has its risks. Mother Nature often wins, but the rut is out of her control. Just wait.

Standing Crops can be good and can be bad... there are benefits and shortcomings with each. We discuss this here.

I pulled a non-cell camera card yesterday that we setup two months ago. It had some solid deer activity and two new faces.

Numero Uno 2.0 (2022) a similar deer to the one we had on this farm two years ago in 2020 that we hunted hard for but only found sheds.

Late Muzzleloader Season in Iowa is a very fun and highly productive hunt if done so correctly. Late Muzzleloader hunts are the most...

Zero to one-hundred. That about sums it up. Yes, that is the range for the level of difficulty that these free-ranging whitetail hunts...

Over the last six years of taking hunters out into southern Iowa, in a variety of different forms, straight up guiding, fully guided,...

I just got off the phone with one of my 2023 archery hunt clients. I asked him for three topics that he would say are his "three biggest...

As many of you know, MDLO "closed" down in 2021 following the 2021 deer season as it was becoming too much to balance MDLO and my...

Hello, Everyone! I haven't done a blog update since late January on here, so I guess I should get everyone up to speed on the operation...

Below, this is a winter landscape photo that I took in December of 2016 in southern Iowa. I was driving in between farms in Zone 6 when I...

A little information on our 2020 archery season, the good, the bad, and the truth.

The story of the McMichaels trip to southern Iowa in 2020