Nutrition For Your Deer Herd Providing a year-round source of nutrition for your whitetail herd is very important. Inadequate nutrition leads to weight loss, poor conception rates, lower fawn survival, increased susceptibility to disease…and where it counts to some...
Gary Howey’s Outdoors Blog
Early Ice By Gary Howey
I know it is hard to believe, but its December and the time of the year when people really start to think seriously about ice fishing. As soon as Thanksgiving is over, the phones in our office goes wild with people wondering where the ice is good enough...
My First Wabbit Hunt By Gary Howey
As a kid growing up in N.E. South Dakota, my friends and I would pursue what we thought was big game that inhabited the thickets and woodlot along the Sioux River, the Wily Wabbit. With my Daisy BB guns in hand, off we would go, heading down the River...
Making a Difference For Wildlife By Gary Howey
On a recent trip, I stopped at a cafe and sat down with a group of locals having coffee. Not long after I sat down, the main topic of our conversation turned to hunting and how it changed over the years. Several of the individuals were expressing their...
Mid-Season Pheasants South Dakota Style By Gary Howey
Lady, Gary Kubicek's lab worked out in front of us as did some of Joel Vasek's dogs and by the way, they were acting, we had better be ready as they were on a bird. The habitat we were hunting was perfect, with everything wildlife needed to...
Creating Funnels
Whitetails are lazy animals and will almost always take the path of least resistance. An example would be a creek crossing. Both bucks and does would much rather cross the creek in a spot where the bank is gently sloping rather than at a spot that is almost vertical....
Making a Difference For Wildlife By Gary Howey
On a recent trip, I stopped at a cafe and sat down with a group of locals having coffee. Not long after I sat down, the main topic of our conversation turned to hunting and how it changed over the years. Several of the individuals were expressing their...
Mountain Lion sightings
Mountain Lion sightings are become a common thin in the Midwest as they are being caught on Game Cameras in southern South Dakota, northern Nebraska and northern Iowa and in numerous other Midwestern states. This can be quite concerning when you call...