If you’re looking for the buck of a lifetime; Southern Iowa is the place – and ‘Iowa Trophy Hunts’ with Nathan Askew is the company. We do a small number of very successful hunts each year with mostly repeat clients and their lucky friends and family. These guys come back as soon as they can with ‘Iowa Trophy Hunts’ because they see bigger deer here than any other place! We have a few open spots each year due to the multiple gun seasons and the difficult lottery system for out of state deer hunters – the demand goes up each year for these hunts and additional tags are not being released by the state. This hunt we need to talk about in advance – please call us.
Please Note that due to the high demand of Iowa Deer Hunts you will have to book Iowa well in advance – It typically takes 2 preference points to obtain a gun tag, it typically takes 6 preference points to obtain an archery tag. We take bookings up to 5 years in advance.
Your Tag/preference point must be applied for in May the summer before you plan to hunt. You can find more information at http://www.iowadnr.com or by contacting us.
Our Iowa hunting areas are a mixture of CRP, Woodlots, corn and bean fields (major food sources during the harsh Iowa winters) medium sized timber lots, and brushy creeks and draws.
Our properties are scouted correctly and stands hung well in advance. we utilize life line on our tree stands for your safety. The use of trail cameras helps us locate some bucks and others are scouted from the truck. We use aerial maps to aid in stand placement. This gives us a better idea of what is going with the bigger picture and the movement of deer. Of course the sign on the ground is the best indicator and we scout well ahead of time and have years of knowledge about the properties.
Our bow hunting stands are all Millennium lock-on stands and ladder sticks. We use big comfortable ladders stands for the archery hunters as well. Clients who choose to hunt during the Iowa gun season will hunt from comfortable big ladder stands, ground blinds, or enclosed elevated box stands. We currently utilize over 45 enclosed modern box blinds with most of these placed over food. approximately 60 acres of custom food plots are installed each year in 1 to 3 acre plots – with mixes of turnips radishes brassicas and forage soy bears.
We make every effort to insure that our clients are comfortable while hunting from any of our stands or blinds, and we encourage our clients to hunt from daylight to dark, because the buck of a lifetime can walk by any of our stand locations at any moment – but this is not required and we will facilitate your individual hunt as needed.
The hunting days begin early, and following hot coffee and a lite breakfast, we walk each client to their stand well before daylight. At the end of the day, our clients are picked up by our guides and we all share a hot home cooked meal together as the day’s many sightings and any harvests are discussed by everyone at the lodge. Lodging at our new ‘Back-40’ lodge insures a short driving distance to all of our farms.
Our Iowa operation produces great bucks on un-pressured and proven properties. The hunts are fully catered and what a serious whitetail hunter expects. Whether you apply for one of the gun seasons or a rut bow hunt – let us help you hunt a huge Iowa whitetail. You will have years of waiting and planning and thousands of dollars in this hunt – please plan ahead if you want the right results!
To get on the hunt schedule all hunts require a $2,000 deposit. All business is confirmed via email well in advance to ensure clarity. Contact us anytime.