by Gary Howey | Feb 4, 2016 | "Siouxland Outdoors" Columns, Larry Myhre-IA
As I left the theater after viewing the award-winning movie “The Revenant,” I thought, “Hugh Glass must be spinning in his grave.”The movie was never meant to be an accurate historical profile of the Hugh Glass story, obviously. And it certainly isn’t. The attack by...
by Gary Howey | Feb 4, 2016 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns, Deer Hunting, Food Plots, Gary Howey-NE., Mineral Licks
There are several things that are critical when it come to a healthy deer herd and bucks with larger racks. These things include, the age of the buck, genetics, mineral intake and nutrition.The most important thing needed for the deer in your hunting area to develop...
by Gary Howey | Feb 4, 2016 | Deer Hunting, Habitat, Soil Tests
By this time of the year, most everyone’s hunting season is over or starting to wind down and not many guys are thinking about growing plots or feeding their deer. With some cold and nasty weather still possible for the next few weeks, it’s a great time to sit down...
by Gary Howey | Feb 1, 2016 | Deer Hunting, Habitat, THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK
“Browse.” When compared to food plot crops and most of the whitetails’ other foods, it’s terrible nutrition and difficult to digest, BUT WHITETAILS MUST HAVE IT! Browse consists of the leaves, buds, stems and twigs of woody deciduous trees and shrubs, but they may...
by Gary Howey | Jan 29, 2016 | "Of the Outdoors" Columns, Gary Howey-NE., Ice Fishing
The prayers of we ice angler have been answered, as now there is plenty of ice for us to punch holes through.Now that we have the ice we have been waiting for, it is time of the year when it can be hard to find concentrations of active fish that are willing to...