THE RUT IS ON! November 5th, 2022 - Rut Update #1
Yesterday morning into the early afternoon, a considerable rain storm pushed through Iowa bringing some instant cooling effects into the...
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Nov 3, 2022
FULLY GUIDED - Deer Hunts & Accommodations
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...
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Nov 2, 2022
November 2022 - Operational Update
Wednesday November 2nd, 2022 BOW HUNTING & THE RUT 2022 October ended with some farms showing some nocturnal scrapes being tended by only...
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 25, 2022
BIG DEER OR MATURE DEER - What makes a deer achieve "Shooter Status" for us at MDLO?
Judging a deer to calculate shooter status - age, score, frame, storyline - What goes into our decision-making?
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 19, 2022
A Late October Warm Spell: Mother's Nature's Deer Hunting Curse
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.
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 19, 2022
CROP HARVEST - An Important Hunt Aspect To Think About
Standing Crops can be good and can be bad... there are benefits and shortcomings with each. We discuss this here.
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 18, 2022
Some New Faces in Southern Iowa
I pulled a non-cell camera card yesterday that we setup two months ago. It had some solid deer activity and two new faces.
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 17, 2022
NUMERO UNO 2.0 - A Family Affair
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.
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 10, 2022
MDLO Late Muzz - Cold Hunting
Late Muzzleloader Season in Iowa is a very fun and highly productive hunt if done so correctly. Late Muzzleloader hunts are the most...
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 9, 2022
Level of Difficulty: MDLO Hunts
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...
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 5, 2022
2023 & Beyond - MDLO Hunts Explained
Over the last six years of taking hunters out into southern Iowa, in a variety of different forms, straight up guiding, fully guided,...
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 4, 2022
CLIENT-SUBMITED QUESTIONS
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...
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MDL Outfitters
Oct 3, 2022
WE ARE BACK FOR 2023! Operational Update October 2022
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...
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May 7, 2021
OPERATIONAL UPDATE: May 2021
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...
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Jan 22, 2021
2021 IOWA UPDATE - NEW FARMS!
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...
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Nov 29, 2020
2020 BOW SEASON RECAP
A little information on our 2020 archery season, the good, the bad, and the truth.
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Nov 14, 2020
The Last Day Redemption Buck
The story of the McMichaels trip to southern Iowa in 2020
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Oct 25, 2020
ONE WEEK FROM NOVEMBER: Things Are Starting To Change Around Here
November is now a week away! LETS GO!!!
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Oct 19, 2020
OPERATIONAL UPDATE: It is almost "Prime Time" in Southern Iowa
2020 Incoming Bowhunters: Please read & respond. Thank you!
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Oct 16, 2020
BUCKTOBER: Start to Finish
October buck stories and analysis of the different sections of October. Enjoy the read!
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