Deer hunting season started Oct. 1 in Iowa, and in several western counties, hunters can only harvest bucks. These restrictions have been increasing for the past few years in response to a dropping ...

Following a bump in the number of deer in Iowa City, city officials opened applications for the city’s urban bow hunt, which will help determine if a professional sharpshooter will be brought in for ...

Iowa is a whitetail hunter's Mecca because it produces big-bodied bucks with superior genetics year after year. But bucks like the one Matthew Mogenson arrowed on the evening of October 18 are rare ...

Muscatine will once again participate in Iowa’s Deer Management Zone Program during the upcoming 2025-2026 urban bow hunting season. Approved by the Muscatine City Council on July 17, this year’s ...

HINTON, Iowa (KCAU) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources presented new deer hunting regulations for western Iowa through a series of presentations. The goal is to provide hunters the opportunity ...

The Iowa Deer Classic is coming to Des Moines in March, with nearly 100 booths of hunting gear and accessories. They're even inviting Iowans to bring their antlers for measuring and bows for shoots.

When you think about what it takes to be a successful whitetail guide, it’s a wonder they even exist. It’s their job to make the big-buck dreams of perfect strangers come true over and over again, all ...

Iowa’s busiest and largest hunting seasons will be kicking off shortly, as the first of the state’s two shotgun seasons for deer will open in about two weeks. Nate Carr, an Iowa DNR conservation ...

CARROLL, Iowa — When I asked Rob Sand, the Iowa state auditor, if he could recommend fascinating Iowans to profile, he suggested himself. Then he suggested we go deer hunting. The Bowhunting ...

Since 2013, chronic wasting disease has been detected in more than 500 deer across 31 Iowa counties.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has launched an updated response plan to the disease that ...